A few years ago, I checked how many subscriptions I had to get in order to watch all games of my club in the season (in France).
I was ridiculous : 2.5 providers for the league (Canal+ with their "sports" pack for some games + Bein Sport), RMC Sport for the euro cups, Eurosport for the French Cup, and Infosport+ (a Canal+ channel but not included in their sports pack, go figure), the total was close to 115€/month (that's close to a full month of salary at minimum wage). All with a 12-months subscription, even if the channel (like Eurosport or Infosport+) may not broadcast one single game of the team (related to cup draws).
20 years ago, you could watch ALL French football with only TF1/FR2/FR3 (free TV Channels) and Canal+ for €30/month.
When the LFP decided to split games to different broadcasters, everything started to go South. And this year, they couldn't find any broadcaster for the league, so they had to create their own channel, which can broadcast only 8 games per match day, since Bein still has a contract for the 9th one.
The first two comments (by timestamp) are one guy (OP) asking for an Obsidian plugin, and the second one is a guy asking for the implementation of swimlane diagrams.
Because writing a book, shooting a movie, composing a song, takes time ?
So either those pieces are IP-protected, and their author can make money with it, or we have to set up a basic income for everyone, and art becomes free.
It's perfectly consistent to say both that there needs to be a system to ensure creators are compensated and that the current system for doing so is terrible.
It is consistent but useless if you have no suggestion as to what would replace the current system in a way that preserves the benefits to both parties.
1. Creators get a sustainable reward for their work. They wouldn't do it otherwise. I certainly don't do it for fun.
2. Consumers get to access that work as they wish.
(Of course, this being HN, I'd expect any ideas to apply to developers as well as to writers and artists i.e. if writers have to give up copyright, so do developers, startups, and so on.)
Keeping the benefits intact for both parties is a non-goal.
How about 14 year max copyright terms? Make copyright unsellable and uninheritable, so you don't get massive copyright hoarding entities that can distort legislation for their own benefit?
That's just two suggestions off the top of my head. I do get tired by false dichotomies.
You're misreading the article. He put himself on the list of people to optimize, but admitted he is sufficiently biased about his own skills that he wasn't realistically going to end up as one of the cuts.
Friendships can transcend teams, personalities are not going to be modeled in software and 'personal situation' is a great way to accidentally make a bad situation worse, for instance: by deciding to keep someone who has a family in favor of someone who does not but who is instrumental to the company in non-obvious ways.
So no, I don't see that particular part addressed well or even at all through those three sets of keywords and I've seen companies be utterly destroyed because they fired a guy they thought wasn't contributing enough who just happened to be the glue holding the whole thing together.
This is not a software problem, and it can't be approached with the same toolset that you would use to figure out register optimization, it is first and foremost a people problem. The OP is seriously out of their depth and too full of themselves due to their recent promotion to realize this.
That realization won't be long in the coming though, I predict that within six months there will be another blog post about how he left this toxic company behind to go somewhere else without realizing that he was part of the problem all along.
For reference, I give you his blog post from six months ago:
> It makes zero sense to keep people who are being fired, they are being fired for a reason.
The problem addressed here was "is my reason valid".
If you fire someone for the wrong reason, and then everything crumbles, having them on paid leave for 1 month or 2 won't hurt the company financially, and allow to test "how are we doing when X is not there anymore".
And that's exactly why middle managers in large companies have zero power to fire. They can't be trusted to fire for valid reasons so they don't get the ability to fire.
Gotta go through HR and due process, that typically sets the bar to assaulting coworker and stealing from the company.
I was ridiculous : 2.5 providers for the league (Canal+ with their "sports" pack for some games + Bein Sport), RMC Sport for the euro cups, Eurosport for the French Cup, and Infosport+ (a Canal+ channel but not included in their sports pack, go figure), the total was close to 115€/month (that's close to a full month of salary at minimum wage). All with a 12-months subscription, even if the channel (like Eurosport or Infosport+) may not broadcast one single game of the team (related to cup draws).
20 years ago, you could watch ALL French football with only TF1/FR2/FR3 (free TV Channels) and Canal+ for €30/month.
When the LFP decided to split games to different broadcasters, everything started to go South. And this year, they couldn't find any broadcaster for the league, so they had to create their own channel, which can broadcast only 8 games per match day, since Bein still has a contract for the 9th one.