Doesn't stop your manager from requiring support for the other 4%.

You make it sound like this doesn't happen frequently.

About ten years back, I had moved away from home and was living in a small town with no Internet in my apartment. The only internet connection I had was the local library.

I remember being so surprised at the amount of viruses on those dumb computers. I wondered what the heck people were doing to them to get them in that state, and then one time I saw some dude looking up porn and just downloading whatever programs the pages he came to told him to.

Anyway, I'm glad I have Internet in my apartment now.

Honestly, you ever tried to look back through a long thread on Discord? It's impossible. If you want to read the original message that started the thread, good luck, you'll be scrolling all day and may never get there. How anyone can claim that's "easy to use" is beyond me.

Discord works for quick discussions happening right now, and that's it.

Companies are using subscription models because it has proven to be far more profitable than a one-time purchase. Why sell the product to each person just once when you can sell it to them over and over again? You no longer have to constantly develop new products and versions, and you now only have to maintain your existing product.

And it works because people buy it.

I'm curious to see whether this survey shows that the amount of jobs programming Rust has increased.

I thought problem inputs were randomized for each user?

Diesel is well-known for having some of the worst errors in the ecosystem. This is far from the rule.

Wow, they really did not make that clear at all on the contest description.

I think you're spot on. It fits right in to the whole "enshittification" topic that Doctorow wrote about. Everyone started using streaming services like Netflix because it offered such a great user experience; now that they have the user base, unfortunately we are now at the point where Netflix has every motivation to make the platform as shitty as possible to milk as much money from their users as they can.

Should be titled, "demotivating a programmer with a specific personality type." Sure, some good programmer you know doesn't value money; that doesn't mean every skilled programmer won't value it.

For #2, there isn't anything stopping a separate auth system not through GitHub. Really just needs someone to own the implementation. See https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326#issuecomment-216662599 for past discussion surrounding this.