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I think you have it wrong, there are different types of audiences. It’s not exactly hard to find a free source for learning any tech because there is just so much material out there, and in that environment it’s often better to get paid by people who have liked the work you offered them for free.

I would have never read, or later purchased, the testing goat book for Django if it wasn’t freely available because I would have simply selected another source.

People don’t really do that with fiction because there isn’t 9 million different Harry Potters that are all almost equally good.

A further benefit of having a lot of people read your tech book is that you get more feedback which makes it easier to improve it, and a lot of tech books are really rather terrible until they’ve been heavily edited. And unlike fiction there is often a correct way to do things with tech.

A national risk assessment has increased the danger level on non-eu companies for storing citizen data.

So we’re just trying to plan ahead for the unlikely event that we’ll need to move off those services.

I’m Danish so I can chip in who this is targeted at. A few of our larger corporations like Danske Bank (the one from the money laundering scandals) aimed at paying out its stock owners 8,50dkr per share while simultaneously planning to fire hundreds of employees to pay for their mishaps and Covid problems. Other companies that are less evil planned similar things.

Now Danske Bank is planning on using those money to secure their business going forward, and we expect some companies to follow this route. Others will go a head with their firings, like Vestas, to make sure share holders get richer.

Now this is not something we actually want in Denmark. I know it’s capitalism, but our most recent election results showed a record support of our social democracy. We’ve never had less support for liberalism (which is our branch of capitalism) than we do now since the end of WW2. So we value people keeping their jobs above shareholders making money.

I personally think we should be even tougher on taxing the rich. If we know companies sit in tax-havens then we should really do something about that, shouldn’t we

If the WHO is right in that having contracted Covid doesn’t make you immune, then the strategy of going for herd-immunity is not only losing more people, it’s losing them for no reason.

We’ve used online shopping for a few years now, not exactly the same as they deliver, but close enough since there is only a certain amount of delivery slots.

There was never a problem with getting a slot until the recent pandemic. My wife sat there pressing F5 but it wouldn’t be enough, new slots were taken exactly when they opened.

Turns out someone had a piece of software set up new accounts, registered slots and then sell them. The store chain fixed it after a few weeks, but those are certainly interesting problems we face with online “Queuing”.

Isn’t the Django vs Ruby mainly about just picking one and not looking back? They seem to do the same thing extremely well and both have active communities.

I work in the second largest region of my country, which is not where many of the hip tech firms are located. And it shows in the tech stacks around here, it’s mainly C#, JAVA and PHP and no one is really doing the no-page-reload front-ends, and no one seems to care.

Startups in my area are actually doing better than they are in our main tech hub despite most of them using what Silicon Valley would call fairly boring and extremely old tech stacks such as ASP MVC.

Sweden is one of the few countries that didn’t lock down. I’m Danish, and we locked down hard and are now on the process of reopening where as Sweden has 4-5 times the amount of deaths we do per capita, despite being a much, much larger geographical area and they’re closing down more and more as we are opening.

The political fallout the Swedish government will face over having so much more dead than Denmark and Norway is likely going to destroy their current government and lead to a further increase of their right-wing populist party.

So yeah, there are countries that didn’t close down hard, but they look royally fucked because of it. I think the only country where the government failed where the current administration is gaining popularity is the US. For some reason.