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 don't really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

First 1/3rd is a bit of fluff but after that, good article.

Ah yes, the Wadsworth constant.

It's been this way for years. Really?

At what point will llogiq realize no one cares about crate of the week, and simply remove it from the newsletter? Even if there are suggestions, it almost always just amounts to whoever decided to advertise their own niche crate that week. I'm not surprised the community has basically given up on it at this point.

Saw this posted on hackernews yesterday, along with hundreds of comments of people completely misunderstanding the advice given. Glad to not see any of that here.

Bet you $50 we later learn this guy was orchestrating a supply chain attack.

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.

I'm a bit confused about the premise of the article. Does anyone assert that typing speed is a bottleneck at all? I've been in the industry for years, and have never heard that claim.

I do agree about the whole "less code is not always more", but I get confused when the author keeps bringing it back to typing speed.

I'm confused, what exactly is going downhill? Hacktoberfest, or open source in general?

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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.

Same quote of the week as last week?

What the heck is this paywalled article doing here? That's some reddit-level shit.

If you want to go one step further, a lot of game development uses a generational index, where the index is both a value and a generation, allowing you to know whether the index you currently have stored references an object that has already been destroyed and replaced by another object. Basically every ECS framework I've ever seen uses this pattern.

Don't worry, I misread it the exact same way

That quote of the week is hilarious

Bold of you to assume they even clicked the link

Nothing Drew DeVault writes is worth reading, and this is no exception.

This is a great point. Sharing a playground link means your problem is immediately reproducible. You'll be much more likely to receive assistance this way.