In 2005 I was thinking about a career in tech. There was a best selling book called The World Is Flat that argued that you'd be competing with the entire world, including places with much lower living costs.
I make a living writing code in London. What happened?
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The most common selling point I hear for Nix is having a list of all the packages you need.
On a traditional Linux distro, I just install things and forget about them. A curated, commented list would certainly be handy when I have a new system.
I'm amazed to learn that there is now a marketplace for buying and selling good prompts to midjourney/ChatGPT etc!
You pay and you receive a prompt that generates good results. For example:
When a project is 90%+ open source, it's hard to sell a proprietary bundle on top. OpenOffice/Star Office had this problem: Star Office had a grammar checker as its main selling point IIRC.
This is a problem when the bundle funds much of the development work.