Stack Overflow Jobs was a superb, uncluttered, direct interface to the hiring manager, with accurate details about a position. So when they canned it (but kept their advertising revenue stream plus started "SO for Teams" in 2018), that was a major canary that the whole revenue model wasn't viable, at least for independent developers.
If SO wanted to keep experienced developers on their site and contributing content for free, it shouldn't have been unthinkable to find some model to fund SO Jobs. Yahoo is one cautionary tale of what happens when a site pursues more or lower-quality advertising revenue without regard for losing users.
Don't distort my words. If SO Jobs was one of the key engagement features bringing thousands of experienced developers to SO to contribute free content (and the site was valued at $1.8bn in the acquisition), then any reasonable accounting would find those features were cash-positive.
(That seems comparable to arguing that Facebook shouldn't subsidize posting baby photos).
But if it was the case that SO mgmt decided (2017-2020) that they didn't care to keep experienced users engaged, and just let the site degenerate into new users posting bigger volumes of duplicates, questions without code, etc., then that would be on them. You don't have to assume their actions were rational; look how badly they mismanaged moderation in that period and how many experienced users that lost them.
I think that it is simultaneously the case that 1) SO Jobs had job-seekers who loved it 2) it was not actually a major draw to the site 3) it didn't make money, despite 4) being primarily intended as a monetization mechanism. You are starting from different premises you didn't bother stating and then accusing me of being dishonest for not divining them.
Instantiating classes is in general not a performance issue in Python. Your issue here strongly sounds like you're abusing OO to pass a list of instances into every method and downstream call (not just the usual reference to self, the instance at hand). Don't do that, it shouldn't be necessary. It sounds like you're trying to get a poor-man's imitation of classmethods, without identifying and refactoring whatever it is that methods might need to access from other instances.
Please post your code snippet on StackOverflow ([python] tag) or CodeReview.SE so people can help you fix it.
> created a new class with the names of each field and helper methods to process the data. The new code created a list of instances of my class. Downstream consumers of the list could look at the class to see what data they were getting.
Don't you think the domain name 'www.somaliscan.com' is intentionally misleading and offensive, given the vast majority of fraud is not by Somalis, e.g. the $1.7bn healthcare fraud at ex-Florida Governor Scott's former company, Columbia/HCA?
I found this on Twitter, I think the creator was referring to whats happening in Minnesota and the uncovering of the fraudulent daycares. I do agree with you though, its a bad domain name.
I did five minutes of due diligence and I can confidently declare that this site is itself a fraud; a political front, public-facing vaporware weaponized to further the recent mostly-inflated-or-fictional narrative agreed upon by the righteous, part of the propaganda campaign designed to smear Tim Walz with guilt by association.
There is likely some very real fraud occuring in applications for federal grants, funding expressly purposed for the betterment of childcare. Bears investigation to be sure, but my question becomes, what will you make of it?
It's all hands on deck for this publicity campaign, which has all the favorite ingredients to brew up a new rabble-rousing hate-flavored stew-in-your-juices "news" story.
Your money is being stolen! By foreigners! Immigrants scarfing federal grants (stealing your tax money), in a Demon-cratic city/state, see how they do!
Like, as if, this isn't happening everywhere, all the time, when federal money is made available. There's good intentions, legislations, and the road to hell.
There will be more of this cruft, unfortunately, in our future, because they (the righteous) are really good at coordinated media campaigns to push minor flamebait stories to heights of outrage. And you can tell by the people involved (JD Vance, Kash Patel, Fox News, and those ever-ready YouTube papirazzi) that this will go on, like with previous outrage campaigns, designed to make you look here instead of there.
He didn't bring his long rifle, just a friend with a camera, but Nick Shirley personally went a-hunting for fraud from the outside of various childcare sites in Minnesota. He is making it real by doing his own research. He could see the signs of fraud, just by standing outside and sniffing the air!
Which reminded me a little of nine years ago, when a Mr. Edgar Welch personally went (armed) looking for the basement of Comet Pizza in Washington DC, back in those crazy QAnon fantasy child abuse daze (December of 2016).
This will last longer than Cracker Barrel or Bud Light. But this too will pass.
> Carvana will be included in the S&P 500 starting on December 22nd, 2025. And that should not sit well with anyone...
Carvana meets these criteria [for S&P inclusion], but seems to be doing so using inflated numbers.
It's an interesting sidebar discussion what are cultural norms on social interaction vs using someone like a free therapist. I guess consent to whatever topic, equal airtime, not saying inappropriate things, not slowing down their work.
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