This is why I hardly visit this place and will never post a personal project or anything I'm working on. Because people will just complain about it if it costs money, or smugly brag that they could have created the same thing in a weekend. Regardless, this looks like a very cool plugin and I look forward to playing around with the lite version. Thanks for sharing.
Every time I see a project that's paid where people comment "I could create the same in a weekend", that's exactly what I do. By now most of the apps I'm using daily are written by me. It's (a) fun, and (b) gives me the satisfaction not to pay for something that's not worth it. For open-core projects, I usually just fork and rebuild all the paid features ontop of the free version. That's actually surprisingly easy most of the time.
(Obviously I then release everything I create under GPL, so others can use it freely and expand on it)
As lots of other users have been pointing out, it's because it's their conference day. Usually we see this flood-of-post things with $BigCo conferences but it's the same phenomenon.
I'm a little worried about the industry and workers that would be affected by such a huge change. I don't know what could be done, especially in the name of progress, but it's something that needs to be considered.
Yes, technology has created new jobs, but it has also massively devalued it; a highschool graduate can no longer support a family at a lifelong factory job.
> a highschool graduate can no longer support a family at a lifelong factory job.
It's worth keeping in mind that this was only ever true for a large number of people in a very short window in history, basically a few decades in the middle of the 20th century. Before that, you had (essentially subsistence) farming, craftsmen (neither of which could be done without substantial apprenticeship, ie education) or sweatshop factory working (which did not allow for the kind of middle class supporting a family you have in mind).
I am very curious what led that time in history to spread wealth so evenly. I don't know much about it, but for about 50 years technology was giving us such amazing, shared increases in productivity and standard of living that people dreamed of a post-labor society. (like star trek).
I met someone who's been with a company for nearly 30 years. When they started, everyone got 15 vacation and 12 personal leave days a year.
I think you were trying to parody comments on HN or elsewhere but I've rarely, if ever, heard anyone espouse such a view. The overwhelming majority agree that increased automation will lead to higher productivity but also cause unemployment. It's easy to write a snarky comment like that one, but I don't think it really adds value to the conversation.
There are definitely some people here who espouse the view that the technological changes will certainly create new jobs that replace the ones that disappear and there is no worry about unemployment going up. I think they are in the minority though and not really parody-worthy.
Well, that's one half. Like, Teslas and Nissan Leaf have no transmission at all, they are direct drives. That's a hell lot of sensitive gearing gone. Also, the load on brake pads is much lighter because breaking is regenerative and so instead of needing to waste away all the energy of the spinning wheel as heat on the brake pads, you just use it as a generator for a while.
But in general, there are less consumables, so to speak. Like oil filters, what oil filters? An electronic cable has a lot less chance to break than a seal to grew old. No spark plugs. And, again, see brake pads above. Still some parts require maintenance (wiper blades) but much less.
Current Teslas [1] along with the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt all have single gear transmissions with a ratio of about 8 to 1. It is true that these are very simple transmissions that never need to shift, which should reduce complexity.
1. Very early Tesla Roadsters had 2 speed transmissions.
