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im beginning to realize tons of things in life MUST be sold (or a case built which i see as a form of "selling") want a new code convention? best make a writeu

im beginning to realize tons of things in life MUST be sold (or a case built which i see as a form of "selling") want a new code convention? best make a writeup and pros/cons for it to make it digestable to your fellow devs. want a code fix on a third party lib? best make a case for why its a value-add for the maintainers. want a new friend? best be interesting enough that the person has a reason to remember you. everything is a sell, though the buyers arent always buying with their wallets

grp 5y ago
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
ignoramous 5y ago
> im beginning to realize tons of things in life MUST be sold (or a case built which i see as a form of "selling") While this is true, one is better off from thinking about this from first principles, such as what are some undeniable truths that are constant over time given an intractable problem space. Evolving software over and over around those constants, under the constraint of that one problem space, makes for a viable sell (but one does have to sell) especially in a b2b setting. Note that, early adopters don't need much of a selling-to, by definition, if the software as much as interests them and fulfills a tiny modicum of their needs. Ref: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Isn't this just making the metric the target? We want popular projects because popularity is a sign of quality[0], but by focusing on becoming popular we're just gaming the metric. [0] supposedly. I'm not convinced.
sgc 5y ago
I recently submitted a 2 character fix because someone used . instead of \. in their regex. Terse explanation because obvious. Rejected! More seriously, some of the best friends I have made is because I randomly took the initiative to start a study group with them despite the fact that we had never spent time together as a group. There is always an animator making things work. If you want to actually do interesting things, you very often need to be that person. While you might not get the ego boost of being a 'chosen' one, you will occasionally receive thanks from those who recognize what you did to make things happen for everyone.

grp 5y ago

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

ignoramous 5y ago

> im beginning to realize tons of things in life MUST be sold (or a case built which i see as a form of "selling") While this is true, one is better off from thinking about this from first principles, such as what are some undeniable truths that are constant over time given an intractable problem space. Evolving software over and over around those constants, under the constraint of that one problem space, makes for a viable sell (but one does have to sell) especially in a b2b setting. Note that, early adopters don't need much of a selling-to, by definition, if the software as much as interests them and fulfills a tiny modicum of their needs. Ref: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Isn't this just making the metric the target? We want popular projects because popularity is a sign of quality[0], but by focusing on becoming popular we're just gaming the metric. [0] supposedly. I'm not convinced.

sgc 5y ago

I recently submitted a 2 character fix because someone used . instead of \. in their regex. Terse explanation because obvious. Rejected! More seriously, some of the best friends I have made is because I randomly took the initiative to start a study group with them despite the fact that we had never spent time together as a group. There is always an animator making things work. If you want to actually do interesting things, you very often need to be that person. While you might not get the ego boost of being a 'chosen' one, you will occasionally receive thanks from those who recognize what you did to make things happen for everyone.