The person you’re replying to is saying to avoid the scammy buyer offering 2x, and instead list normally at 3-4x.

It’s always Scatman - Scatman John

Proposing a fix is better than no fix? I didn’t know it was possible, and now I’m looking into it.

Changing the default is a social issue, so of course it’s more difficult than changing one’s current setting.

They aren’t using git as a database, they’re using it as revision history. The database is whatever they decide to store in git. For crates.io, for example, they use JSON files in directories.

If you put an sqlite database in git, you are wouldn’t say “git is the database”, and that’s true here too.

That said, yeah, you shouldn’t roll your own database. Take your source code (JSON from crates.io) from git, and compile it into an sqlite file (for example) for download.

Is Netflix evil these days?

Wow, after reading your story, my ragequit is peanuts in comparison. I almost don’t feel like posting it!

Normally I’m a lot more humble than this, but you’re all strangers on the Internet, so you’ll just have to take my word for it, but… I had performed extremely well at my software development job. “Exceeds expectations” kind of performance review. I had led the architecture of several large efforts, and consistently delivered features.

Promotion time comes around, and I get a 3% raise. Eh, whatever. At least it meets inflation.

I find out a bit later that one of my coworkers (quite talented in her own right, don’t get me wrong) got a title increase and a much more meaningful salary bump.

So I talk to my manager about why she was promoted and I wasn’t. We both had similar performance reviews, had led similar projects, and so on. I was prepared to accept it if there was a good reason. There wasn’t. There was only budget room for one promotion, and she had been hired at a more senior position than me, though I had been promoted to match soon after I started. That’s it. No logical reason other than seniority.

I was butthurt, and started looking for a new job right away. Ended up snagging a great gig in a few weeks.

I keep in touch with my old co-workers quite regularly, and I guess some activist investor forced through policy changes and gutted the satellite office I worked at. I guess I dodged a bullet there.