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by code_sloth 9y ago
I doubt there's any intentional manipulation going on behind the scenes. It's just VCs throwing their money at the potential next big thing, which is almost never at something low level. That's where the money is, and the too
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by code_sloth 9y ago
The phrase "piece of sh!t" for better or worse, is now so widespread its almost never meant literally. People who take it to heart shouldn't be working in _any_ client facing role. It might be chinese culture to avoid critici
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by code_sloth 10y ago
> There's also the problematic government support of corporal punishment for children.. There might have been implicit government support in the past, but today teachers are not allowed to hand out corporal punishment to children.
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by code_sloth 10y ago
The startup scene tends to be more foreigner friendly. For corporates/enterprises it's a mixed bag because some of the rank and file locals view foreigners as people who have taken jobs/opportunities away from locals.
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by code_sloth 10y ago
> As an aside I'm curious why you think that "magic" is good for beginners. I was referring to absolute beginners with little prior background. To them, technical documentation is a bunch of gobbly gook. For these people i
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by code_sloth 10y ago
> No, you shouldn't be thinking about these things. Because you'll get them wrong. "Magic" is good for beginners, because there's just too much they don't know. Not thinking about all these things because th
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by code_sloth 10y ago
> ... my level of empathy for this kind of griping is roughly zero. Adapt to the new hotkey and save the complaining for something that actually matters. It's absolutely amazing how many comments (500++ as I write this) that this &q
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by code_sloth 10y ago
The only thing that came to my mind was "why put yet another abstraction in the browser?". Then I realised the answer was probably "because they could". Someone will write a C compiler in Java and stuff it in the browser
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by code_sloth 10y ago
I'm interpreting that chart as tracking the year on year percentage increase/decrease of the population and ridership. So the population has more or less been increasing year on year since 2005, with a near zero decline prior to t