The obnoxious one here is the person obsessed with monetization, not the person who throws their ignorance back in their face. Every hobby these days has to be monetized; it's fucking gross.
Eh; it's maybe dumb to suggest the only way for a project to be sustainable is to monetize it, but responding with "I'm rich, you peasant, I'm above such concerns" is infinitely worse.
In my professional network, people mostly just reshare and like things their peers are doing or that they want to boost engagement for (mainly job postings, which they also post occasionally).
I _do_ have acquaintances I made outside of working life on LinkedIn, though - the only two that are really active are a mechanical engineer who mostly just posts about robotics and someone in marketing. I don't know if it's because I'm just really good friends with the latter person, but I've never felt annoyed reading their posts; they mostly seem to just talk about enjoying conferences or new externally facing projects - ad campaigns, large-scale promotions, etc - wherever they are currently working. I don't know if part of that is they're in the EU and the culture for marketers there is different?
Is it making it easier? I feel like having to parse a comic like this is more cognitively demanding than just RTFCode, and I'd still have to review the code afterward to confirm its accuracy and whether the approach is sensical.
At which point I feel like I would rather the human have invested their time into writing a design doc that we could discuss well before they submitted a PR.
>Also, Indonesian food IMHO is at the bottom of SEA food culture. MY has wayyy better food (both in quality and diversity).
I won't speak for the quality but this seems like an extremely dubious statement. Malay cuisine is certainly diverse, owing to settled migrant populations from other parts of Asia, but they don't have the dizzying array of indigenous cuisines on offer in Indonesia, many of which aren't readily available in Java.
It's true that the alternatives may not be good, but if so it suggests that maybe publishing is a business that requires certain behavior.
I think the best thing that Doctorow could do is set up his own publishing business and show the big companies the right way to do it. If he's right, he'll get the best new talent and quickly succeed.
But I'm guessing he'll discover what the major companies know: the consumer is fickle, developing a new book/movie/song is expensive, and only a few hits pay for the rest.
There are plenty of fine, even higher quality and credibility, publishers out there.
In fact even a mediocre university press likely has higher standards, in just about every conceivable quality aspect, than even the best imprints of the big 5.
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