and Greg Rutkowski too

To add on this: I specifically avoided using him (or other living artists) in the prompts for this post since that's been a hot issue lately: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-art...

I did test it though, which resulted in...this: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1571520043737042946

I sprayed my coffee

It would be Streisand if someone desperately tries to cover something by preventing public awarenes and then public awarenes kicks in.

I would rather call it "there is no such thing bad publicity".

This seems like the kind of insight that is better monetized than preached - the value will not be perceived until there is a business success that derived from it.

I sell satellite imagery. I want more people to start application companies, and less people to start data feed companies. "Preaching" is the most scalable way to try to convince people to change tack. I can't personally start dozens of application companies, but I can hopefully help spur the founding of those firms through my writing.

> I want more people to start application companies

Are you aware of ways for a hypothetical start-up team to get cheap/affordable raw imagery data to attempt this? Instead of paying B2B prices upfront just for experimentation?

A good place to start might be the public space agencies, for example: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

Federal employees and contractors are subject to regular and random urinalysis. Until marijuana is legalized at the federal level (which has been passed by the house but is not yet law) you could be terminated for marijuana.

Why would anyone subject themselves to this willingly when you can get better pay and probably less tech-debt elsewhere?

It's not true, at least with contractors for software positions.

It was really genius, classic moment, to make me give the ghost pirate a wedgie.

1) installed it 2) login required 3) uninstalled it

try again

is there an analog for NativeScript?

I went this route. Once you are in QA it is extremely difficult to get out. Everybody views you as "a tester" no matter how good your development skills are. If you genuinely want to be in QA as your career, or if you are truly desperate for work and willing to spend the 5 years or so it will take for you to dig yourself out of QA, then do it. It worked for me. But if you really want to dev, do not take a QA job unless you really can't find a dev job.

100% correct. I did a brief stint in QA before I moved into dev. That job no longer appears on my resume, because I don't want to do those things anymore.

I know a guy who's a senior QA and has been writing automated tests in Python for over 10 years. He can't get hired as a developer because of this "pigeonhole effect." It's nothing to do with his personality, either. He gets hired in QA with no issues.