But even if you read it, you would have legitimate reason for concern when they started taking more than the 2% stated since there is no mention of taking more than 2% (except in the private email from the plug-in author, which isn't part of the terms)

Sounds like a Blizzard talking point. Unions have done a great job, on average, of improving wages and conditions for their workers. Better healthcare benefits through an employer typically more than makes up for the cost of the union dues.

Which country is this? Also your comment is a common/untrue talking point when it comes to anti-union rhetoric and union busting. The reality is people working union jobs in the US tend to have better benefits, get paid more, and have a lot more job security.

Yes, Union dues are usually automatically subtracted from paychecks

The key difference though is that statistically, unionized employees are paid more than non-unionized employees... so much so that the union dues are significantly less than the increased pay from collective bargaining.

On average. Top performers often see compensation fall. For industries where “top performer” isn’t a thing because the labor is commoditised, that doesn’t matter. But for some domains it does.

>> Top performers often see compensation fall.

Absolutely not true. I have only anecdotal evidence: I live and work in a nation where unions are everywhere and I see rockstars and specialists getting paid way more than their team mates, everywhere I look.

Can you supply any evidence to support your claim that top performers often see compensation fall?

I wonder how much being a top performer matter in game development when there is a glut in supply.

The problem is, far too many programmers think they're "top performers" who deserve to be paid way more than the guy in the next cubicle over—far, far more than can possibly be the case, mathematically speaking.

Personally, even if I believed myself to be the mythical 10x developer, I would still advocate for unions, because

a) Unions help with more than just pay; they make working conditions and benefits vastly better

b) I care about the people around me being paid fairly, too

c) If I'm genuinely good enough to be at the top of whatever pay scale there ends up being, I'm confident that a union will make sure that's enough money to live comfortably, and that's all I need.

I have negative interest in ever having a lifestyle in which the difference between $150k/yr and $200k/yr actually affects what I can do for myself or how I can live.

I think a lot of the reasons unions in tech fail to materialize is that every employee sees themself as in the "top performer" group and therefore imagines his or her compensation decreasing in a union. Do a survey of a company's software engineers and ask them if they believe they are among the top 1% of performers in their company. I bet more than 15% say YES.

There are many more below-average comps in tech than above average, because the high end skews really high. So the majority of tech workers should actually see more compensation when negotiating collectively.

Many pro sports have a players union, and yet top performers seem to get pretty generous deals there…

I think food delivery business is all about cheap delivery guys. If we look deeper - he profited from restaurant fees minus cost of delivery.

Suprized to see this on top of HN.

Why are you surprised?

Because tutorials often aren't featured here. Especially not video tutorials. If it introduced a concept or something it would be more in line what's normal on here. As a Javadeveloper for many years for which this could be relevant, I'm not too interested because it's not selling why it's useful, just diving into lots of code. So to be a bit blunt, but I don't think the quality warrants being on top.

And I know one's not supposed to speculate, but multiple upvotes in short time without any discussion for something of this caliber is a bit off.

Would be really nice to have this, but what are the chances? I am still thinking it would be better to be off-facebook (already got off twitter, instagram and other networks), but keeping in touch with local community is not possible then.

Probably he is just afraid of "cancel culture" and consequences. Otherwise would not apologize.

I think Cloudflare is fine in most of the cases. Putting title "Never use Cloudflare free plan" with so weak arguments in the blog post is too much.

There's been a spate of "never" or "always" posts getting on the front page in recent days.

Polarization ticks something off in our brains, especially if it's negative and conform with your pre-existing views on a particular subject.

I guess HN users might have caught up to the rest of the internet on how to get clicks.

> in recent days

It's not a recent phenomenon.

The graphs containing 503 errors to two different sites which were both resolved by paying seem to indicate his case is strong.

If that's our standard of evidence then I've resolved bugs by getting a coffee and doing nothing else. :)

Bug resolved. Reason: not enough coffee.

Seriously these systems are complicated and it's easy to confuse correlation for causality.

I bet everyone who will get Airpods Max for free is going to say - oh sure, they are worth 550 and are so nice... But it wont be 100% case when person would pay for them.

So when in IT industry there will be responsibility for what we engineer?

https://tabletopia.com/ is not included in blog article, but is worth to try. Their library is huge and games there are very fun to play. Recommended.

The biggest flaw with this one is the lack of an undo button.

Interacting with stacks of cards is sometimes weird, and the physics get wonky, especially with hex tiles that snap to the board, but still don't align properly.

It works better the less objects are involved.

Playing "Wingspan", putting a card below another with eggs on top is dangerous.

Don't even try to play "Dominant Species".