I did look, of course. High minimum wages, serious social support for unemployed or unemployable, high taxes, generally a more collectivist mindset among citizens than what we have in the US.
Additionally, the US has a very backwards system of social support, which cuts off benefits abruptly, so earning slightly more makes you suddenly quite worse off, instead of weaning you off the support smoothly as your income grows. It's literally a trap. Raising the minimum wage may trigger this for some, too, so staying at the same job at a higher hourly rate results in a lower total income than being unemployed and living entirely off benefits.
I see. But not touching the minimum wage, and instead making the same amount of benefits provided gradually instead of having a sharp boundary (as now) would go a long way.
It won't make any businesses die; to the contrary, the people who won't take a slightly better job now would grow at work, and maybe eventually grow out of poverty entirely. Currently it's only possible by either taking a hit in income among the way, or by suddenly jumping to a much better job.
At my company it's Google and it's history of deprecating products that many people and/or companies depended on. Flutter is OS, but it can't survive without a big company to sponsor development (at this stage).
Saying that, we've started a flutter project this year to see how it goes (the rest stays native or RN)...
Your understanding of poor is really different from mine. Here (Europe) poor people don't buy online, they go to the store for food, it's cheaper.
Amazon is a luxury, not an essential provider.
This depends on the country. In Poland most people buy online these days, but we all use postage boxes(company called InPost). They have 'boxes' everywhere, in every city, even small villages at this point have at least one, big cities have them everywhere within walking distance. They batch deliver packages to those boxes which is also more efficient and environment friendly, you get a code and can pick it up within 48hrs. They revolutionized online deliveries in Poland, noone wants to use a regular courier or postal services anymore. Having to sit at home, often not knowing when the courier will really come is tiresome. People just pick the package up along the way to/from work, groceries etc.
Hogwash, most poor people stay the hell away from UPS. 99.99% of the time the USPS is a better deal when hurting for cash.
UPS could also just lower their profits a little, but somehow that’s blasphemy but laborers asking for more money is not? That’s an incredibly lopsided take.
Counter argument: Which is good for local stores as they can compete more which will increase their profit so they can hire more people etc. It will also take a while to filter down like mentioned elsewhere.
I'm not saying these things are the case but due to the oversimplification you get these kind of responses.
We have different definitions of poor. I’ve been what I’d call poor, and when I was in that state there wasn’t any room in my budget for things purchased on Amazon. Wal*Mart with a ride from a friend was all I had.
Why so bitter? Most complaints are just wrong...
:)
Why should somebody not upgrade packages to the last stable ones (and patch exploits) and why a good developer should be also a good DevOps? That's not like real life works.
So what of your complains are not because of bitterness (that they want to charge big companies for using what they pay programmers to develop)? :)
This is exactly why I got sick of selling my own app [1] and stopped developing other ideas.
I gave people a fairly complex solution in an easy to use package for free because I had no idea other users would pay for it. Everyone was happy to use it and ask for features and send emails with “can you please do this in this other way that I like”.
So I continued developing it because positive feedback gets you in this loop where you don’t realize how much time you’re spending on things that you don’t even need in this app and are only to please other users.
When I realized I just spent 4 years on developing all these features I don’t use and there’s a real need for this solution in the world, I started asking for money on advanced features to at least recover some of that development time.
I also added a download link to the last free version of the app for people that don’t need the new paid version.
That’s when hate mail started. “Why the heck would you ask me to pay for the same features that were previously free?” and “lol what a stupid app, you turned it into nagware, I will just use a cracked version from now on”
What’s the solution here? Just develop a hard skin and continue doing the same thing until people stop complaining and get used to your product having a monetary value?
> The way that people value software these days is completely insane.
It has been like that since the 2000. It gained wider traction when app stores (looking at you, Apple!) started with a baseline of 0.99 USD in 2009. That's just outright insane. I'd be better off giving away my app for free, because people are lot less demanding when they didn't pay for something.
Just wanted to say that I've been wanting something like Lunar for quite some time but didn't know it existed. It looks amazing! I'm going to try it out and will happily pay for it if it ends up working well.
Note that my comment on the OP was not hate mail directed at docker—I took their statements and showed them false or at least misleading by contrasting them with my own experiences. Maybe I could have saved on the lolz, but I feel they were necessary to convey the absolute ridiculousness of the statements in the face of reality.
It looks to me like they are attempting to attract funding.
It’s definitely not the same thing as the mail I received as it isn’t that directed.
But based on my experience, I would say someone worked their ass off to make that UI (because Docker is damn hard for newcomers) and the automatic updates (because zero-day exploits can happen and almost nobody checks for updates manually, and then you have tons of users at risk and incredibly bad PR) and simply didn’t consider adding the possibility of skipping or hiding those functionalities.
You just can’t do everything users want, but you do try hard to please almost everyone.
And if that person that did that work reads this comment, they will feel horrible when even after all this work, they still get mostly bad criticism and no thanks. Comments like these can break a person.
We got used to critiquing companies and products because we keep forgetting that behind them are just people working hard, and maybe 2-3 people in charge that make bad decisions along the way dragging everyone down with them.
I get that my tone would be offensive if used against a person’s personal achievements, but this is an enterprise product likely built by not one but several teams, and the writer is the principal product manager. They don’t get the privilege to lie about their product and expect it to pass without outright mockery, and I expect them to be compensated for being in such a public position and forced to perpetuate whatever the executives want.
I'm a happy user of Docker Desktop myself (as a personal user) so Enterprise is not the first thing that came to mind when I read your comment. Sorry for misinterpreting.
In that case, seems fair enough that as a business suddenly being asked to pay for Docker Desktop, you'll start asking for a more polished experience.
But they've already done the incredibly hard part which is creating and popularising OCI, developing an engine that works on most operating systems, and having nice tooling around all of that.
Polishing the Docker Desktop experience should be fairly easy as soon as people let the Docker devs know how they expect it to work: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues
Can’t speak for OP, but the time they spend on developing needless GUI interfaces to tools that already have perfectly good CLI commands represents a wasted opportunity to do more worthwhile things or save costs.
I don't have to ask anybody, I have lived in Romania for 21 years. Summer tomatoes that are not specially sourced are just as crappy in Romania, Austria, and United States. Slightly better at the farmer's market though. I have also lived in rural Romania for many months at a time, in the summer, for over a decade, and have grown tomatoes myself.
The only time I ever got good tomatoes was at some tomato faire, or some special organic farmer's market (in the summer, of course). And every time it was outside Romania.
The idea that food in Romania is somehow unaffected by global economic development is a myth that has to die.
