All business inherently know that the most difficult thing is to get a customer to open their wallet. A subscription commitment is far more valuable than an impulsive/interest driven one time payment
A 'path to profit' is the time tested lifeline of any enterprise. However this is never highlighted as it doesn't bode well with the general social psyche of humans.
For last 20 years, tech enabled startups, chose 'postpone profit' strategy adopting 'free to use' or 'ad supported' approach helped by raising high capital to build moats around the target market.
Now this trend can be either seen as a moment where the moat is complete and 'path to profit' is through captive customers. (Or) a decline/failure of the 'postpone profit' strategy accelerated by the current economic recession.
All social media and any other free to use switching to subscriptions is quite a probability now.
Very well identified, the cropping up of such an article should not be taken at face value.
Consider such scenarios too which impact profit of specific industries namely Pharma
1. Demand for curcumin has greatly increased leading to an inflation of its market price in recent years
2. Turmeric is an age old go to antiseptic and antibiotic. During Covid it was very common for Indian families to consume turmeric flavored milk as a way of keeping the virus out.
Almost all health, medicinal, sensational articles irrespective of their source publication have to be put under the critical lens of global corporate profit motive
Am I saying there is no adulteration, am not. Just that the publishing intent is no saint either.
In that case, If you end up using OSS without any necessity of contribution from you, would you pay for that OSS software? since you did not contribute labor to it.
Unrelated, is the word pagan used in the headline, appropriate in this day and age? It is an umbrella term that is used to refer to non Abrahamic religions with a derogatory slant like 'heathen'. This is similar to using Mythology as a term for any non Abrahamic religious references.
Had a smile reading through this. So many web developers out there who have no idea about history of HTTP. That it was designed for static document serving and since been twisted to serve applications.
Weather is an underrated reason. India perhaps has the best suited weather conditions for humans to thrive. 80% or more of the land have non-extreme weather
Before Sugarcane was adopted in India, Palm sugar was already widely used as a sweetener and the process was Palm alcohol(Kallu), Palm juice (Pathani) and Palm sugar(Karuppatti)
In Abrahamic religions it is common I believe to say thank you to God before a meal. This is a key difference between these religions and religions like Hinduism.
The thanks is to the object that has helped us in anyway. This stems from the base of Nature/Environment worship that religions like Hinduism are derived from.
All things in the Universe are seen as a manifestation of God or Parmatma (Supreme life force) than God as a third entity.
As to whether it is useful, it is upto each individual to decide for themselves.
Note: I am a practicing Hindu and we just finished this ritual at home last week, including saying thanks to my Laptop :-)
Salary in India is a wide spectrum. At the top end of the talent pool, it is indeed reaching West European levels. I know because I managed a team that was in Spain and India.
However now I run my second startup (bootstrapped) where I hire, train and generate value from candidates who are at the other end of the spectrum with monthly salaries much lower than what is quoted in the article.
It is a very wide spectrum for tech salaries here in India.
The ancient Dravidian language mentioned in this article is "Tamil" where citrus fruits are associated with the word "narumanam"(fragrance) or "naatram"(bad smell). Narthangai which is a native citrus fruit. But I don't think Orange or Mandarin are local to Southern India.
I understand but in this case we have the lifetime as s, seed as S and copy as A. And you can see how it creates that extra effort for someone who is seeing it for the first time. For me any code is associated with its application and that application should be evident in the code.
We talk a lot about user experience and usability in our end products but we do not extend that thought to our fellow programmers at code level.
Rust is just great! I feel liberated from Java and Node.
But what intrigues me is why do programmers insist on making code look and feel difficult? Is there a secret obsession in good programmers to make their code look clever? Is variable naming not a basic etiquette?