I don't think it's unrealistic to think that at some point in the near future that ordinary people in the third-world will be using crypto for their every day transactions. Crypto is going through a massive maturity phase right now. I'm certainly not blind to the massive problems with crypto right now, but seeing chains such as Algo that are actively seeking to be both low cost and carbon neutral gives me great hope.

It's definitely possible but I'm not very optimistic because the entire space is so dominated by rich people: VCs are expecting returns on the scale of many billions of USD and that would require extremely high adoption to recover from a service which can be useful in poorer countries. We haven't even seen “better PayPal” in countries like the U.S. where the existing transaction fees go a lot further.

I don't necessarily have a problem with it. If concepts work well, there is no reason not to reuse them in new libraries.

Thanks for posting that. That was great.

Well said. "Clean Code" goes into this a lot and it helped me realize why I was starting to become more and more bothered by looking back at the short variable names I wrote years ago on my projects.

It would have been pretty heartbreaking (to me at least) for him to have passed before getting the Nobel. Glad they finally gave it to him.

Would have been impossible too: Nobel Prizes are bestowed only on the living, so as to fund their research.

The first thing that came to mind when I read the opening paragraphs regarding churn is developing mobile applications. I find myself losing a day or two just to get my apps to compile if I ever go a month or two without spending any time on them. It's brutal how quickly things can break and dependencies need to be updated.

Is it possible to do modern mobile dev without churn (coming from a situation where my clients often go months without requesting features)?

I only know of iOS, but here's what I try to do

- Reduce the use of dependencies to the minimum (I'm bad at this) - set version compatibility in my Cartfile / Podfile - when new breaking versions of Swift came out, suggest to my client a 2 / 3 mission solely focused on upgrading their app and it's dependencies (otherwise it will probably make their next last minute super-urgent-right-now feature needlessly long and complex to develop)

But I'd also willingly take any advice on this

Edit: also, semi-solved this for my JS work using automated dependency update services, like dependabot, coupled with unit / integration tests, but still haven't found a similar service for Swift

Cutting out dependencies helps. If you just have to worry about Google and Apple the changes are usually slower and documented.

No. not really, However the solution here is to account for that time upfront saying "oh it's gonna take me some time to get back up to speed with your project". That's the reasonable thing to do anyways

Not a ponzi scheme...just fraud. Not sure why they went with the clickbaity title.

It's literally about advertising, i.e. getting people to click on stuff they otherwise wouldn't.

After I proposed to my wife, we did a pre-marital counseling class about budgeting. She knew that I had credit card debt but she didn't know how much and it shocked her when I laid out the real numbers (over $10k). We had about 10 months until the wedding so I told her I was going to try to pick up some moonlighting projects to pay down the debt.

Fast-forward a couple of months and I've picked up a few really simple websites, blogs and a simple web application that I found through responding to ads on craigslist.

I did these types of pretty crappy jobs for a few years until I finally got enough of a portfolio to start bidding on larger and more interesting projects.

Currently I no longer prospect but work as a resource for other creative agencies who need devs on various projects for a few months at a time. It's good work and all started by realizing that I could take more control over my debt and get it paid off quicker if I was willing to give up my tv time in the evenings.

And I did eventually pay off that credit card debt, but not quite before the wedding.

I noticed that. They should at least add an option that mentions their fee structure changes. I stopped using upwork the day those were announced. This story was enough motivation to officially close my account.

Done. Thanks for posting. Can't believe this guy's experience. I used UpWork for a few gigs earlier this year but stopped browsing for gigs when the new fee structure was implemented. This is enough for me to say no thanks to ever using it again.

even funnier is that link doesn't take me to anything resembling a page where I can close my account. Almost like they don't want me to or something.

Literally no button or link anywhere within the profile settings that I can see obviously leads to closing my account.