> 1. It was hard to ask any question.

Totally. There were so many safeguards in place, for a newcomer it is quite hard to contribute.

They also never understood a core principle of such platforms. The noise is not noise but what carries such platforms. They even had it quantified, some of their most upvoted questions are off topic because they are opinion based. Bad and good questions (and answers) come hand in hand.

Well, they were the backbone of professional IT/SWE, so of course they did a lot of things right obviously.

> They also never understood a core principle of such platforms. The noise is not noise but what carries such platforms.

But it's also what wrecks such platforms.

SO didn't arise in a vacuum; it was explicitly a reaction to how shitty ExpertSexchange had gotten by then with an anything-goes moderation policy.

The solution was the one they arrived at way too late: have a "starter zone" for entry level stuff.

It's not the information itself that get sold, but the specific composition of information arranged as a book. Work went into it and people who do it sell that rightfully.

People really still buy into that framing? I think it's pretty clear that it's generally just about money as it has always been.

Tech is full of rubes that eat up the lies.

Crypto, big data, AI. It's all just another middle man hoping to scrape some joy out of everyone's lives to they can put a price tag on it and sell it to rubes and the government(and rubes in the government).

> I'd like to live in a system where the interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI.

Democracies are much closer to that than dictatorships as they don't need to care about the people and never did.

Crazy that you like a system where somebody can just get kidnapped. It never just affects the "right" people, but also a lot of other people. China is jailing and kidnapping a lot - easily tens of thousands of more - of their citizen to sustain control.

Nothing and nobody rises above the authority in a dictatorship, that's kind of the point.

The CEO of Alibaba was kidnapped after he publicly criticized the government.

It's generally no surprise that there are not that many critical voices in a dictatorship.

> Nothing and nobody rises above the authority in a dictatorship, that's kind of the point

Until they do. That’s the problem with dictatorship. If you can kill and swiftly replace the dictator, you become the dictator. What the masses believe is irrelevant.

How many american citizens were kidnapped without due process in the last year?

Less than Chinese citizen were kidnapped in China, that's for sure. People just generally care much less about it.

You also don't hear much about corruption in Russia, because it's just everywhere and completely normalized.

Such countries play in a totally different league, at least for now. Takes a few years to reach dictatorship level. Current administration is trying hard, though.

Google says 500 ????? Idk seems a small for me

Maybe the rest were labeled as non-citizens. Or Google just has wrong numbers.

It's quite long, what's the problematic part in your eyes?

Many companies currently struggle to come up with a lasting strategy.

They need to figure out what make sense here in terms of a product. I rather have a somewhat fragmented ecosystem right now than no relevant product from JetBrains whatsoever.

> their pricing structure heavily punishes unsubscribing.

Sad to see that perspective. Many companies (at least in Germany) punish you for sticking with them.

Jetbrains is that rare company, where the important long term customers are rewarding by giving them a discount.

Rider for UE development is still unmatched.

Their IDEs are still better than VS. I personally also wouldn't want to resort to VS Code with independent extensions.

I tend to agree with you, but why calling it "bullshit"? You can disagree and have a discussing without belittlering other people.