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The only thing I can think of is if they teamed up with LeetCode to allow people to use the built-in compiler to solve the problems.

Obviously for the folks who use <ObscureLanguageX> this wouldn't work but it would be a nice collaboration otherwise.

It's plausible, sure, but it'll never be proven, especially at this distance.

This does feel like my opinion on NFTs / Cryptocoins.

Unless the US improves itself first, then I don't think China is going to believe that the US is making these criticisms and imposing these sanctions with any kind of coherent moral framework. They're going to look at this as a way to restrict and punish them.

It's really not the business of the US government to be sanctioning China over "better rights for their citizens", when the US has already got massive prison labour camps, racist policing system, and has mishandled the Cvid-19 pandemic to the point where there's a million dead and more injured long-term from long Covid.

China is not a perfect system, and the response to terrrorism in Xinjiang should probably not be extensive prison camps and a surveillance state - but again, the US doesn't have a leg to stand on for criticising this when their response to terrorism is to lay waste to several different countries and cause millions of deaths.

It's all very well for us to sit here and wish for a better system in China, but we all have a much better chance of fighting for and winning a better system here in the USA that would actually change lives here.

A "like a family" feeling isn't going to happen while one or more members of that family have total power over wages and employment of the rest. My relationship with my boss and my fellow workers isn't like that of a family, unless my Dad was paying me to work 40hrs a week and could kick me out of the house any time

The only way you'll get anything close to a family feel is something like worker democracy / worker co-ops. Bosses need to stop trying to force a culture onto a workplace and actually treat their employees like people.

Taking a screenshot on your phone is far easier than finding where Share is in your current browser. Sharing is a mess.

The rioters had no coherent "aim", they basically treated like a tourist trap, and were practically let in by the police.

This is exactly what RSS feeds were for. In fact Outlook and other mail programs support RSS feeds alongside e-mail.

Maybe Google should have integrated Reader into Gmail instead of dropping support for it.

I don't think NJB is arguing against the use of cars outside the city (although he's a big fan of trains, naturally). But also don't forget it's not just bougies living in the city, it's working-class people too, who often can't afford to have a car in the city and so need properly working public transport.

Welcome to American zoning laws, sadly.

Experimentation is part of learning though. Heck, failing is part of learning! We really need to teach kids that just because you fail a few times at something you're not bad at it - it's part of learning.

I would probably be considered far to the left of most HN commentators, but I still find moves like this to be pointless.

Ebay, Amazon, etc are all private companies. So I appreciate the point of view that they can operate as they like. But they really shouldn't be prejudiced as to what they sell on their platform, unless there's some form of law-breaking going on (for example the Anarchist's Cookbook).

I'd prefer something at least like how WB handled older Looney Tunes or Disney handled the Muppets - add a disclaimer before relevant episodes explaining objectionable parts. But outright delisting from sale is wrong.

Ultimately these types of moves are bandaids on the real problems we need to solve, like police reform, the schools-to-prison pipeline, the war on drugs, etc.

I'll explain my experience, from starting as a newcomer in a business and ending as a Team Lead / Scrum Manager.

When I first started, we operated on textbook Waterfall standards - I'd be handed an issue from my manager, I'd spend an unspecified amount of time trying to fix it or implement it, and repeat. I had no context about what my other colleagues were doing, or about the greater scope of the project. We had several projects going on at once, which frequently missed deadlines or changed scope halfway through. I might spend a day on an issue, or two weeks - there was no assessment of how complex an issue was. Due to the age of the codebase, various parts of it had no unit tests or documentation.

Some of my other colleagues proposed using Scrum to organise a new project they were working on. Issues were organised, broken down as small as possible, and progress was delivered in Sprints. They estimated their issues, estimated a delivery date for each phase, and met it. They also implemented unit tests and completed documentation for the code.

Over time this method was expanded out to all new projects, with my colleagues organised into teams who focused on one project at a time (while handling maintenance of the older system).

I've found that pairing Scrum with other modern development techniques like unit testing and MVC architecture has made the projects much more maintainable and has given the teams more investment in driving the projects.

We use three parts of Scrum - standups, weekly sizings, reviews. While retrospectives were important early on, mostly everyone is happy with the level of Scrum we practice. A key thing is to not let these meetings overrun - that seems to be everyone's main complaint about Scrum is not letting it distract from actual work, but using the time to better plan it out. My managers can see the progress of a project in rea-time as well, between reviews and looking at the team burn-down mid-Sprint. We can better track issues that people are struggling with on a day-to-day basis.

I've now found it a lot easier to deliver projects on time, and to better justify why delays occur because of the increased amount of planning. My team members are now better invested in the project and morale is much higher. I see Scrum as enabling picking up other good practices as well, but it's not worth doing if you're not also pairing it with these other techniques, or it's just a way for management to hold lots of meetings. It really requires a team-based focus, which is why I think a lot of lone wolf programmers bounce off it.

The US tax system is another one of those things about the US that looks utterly baffling to an outside observer from Europe. How on earth did it get into this state? How is this 'free'?

These types of moves are usually not looked upon favourably by China, and might risk the fate of the two Michaels (who were locked up in retailation for Meng Wanzhou's arrest).

Undoubtedly, yes.

The argument would be, what is the intent of the CCP in pushing this program, gien the evidence of coercion from Uyghur camp survivors. Is it as virtuous as state media argues? Doubtful.

It's the inevitable consequence of policing Trump's tweets. Either you police everything, or you're a hypocrite.

This is not intended to judge how true the original article by the way, for future downvoters.

Twitter is already very judicious when it comes to any use of the word 'kill' nowadays=s, or anything that could be violent. Just requires a report.

I've not used JIRA in the long time, but in general I find source coontrol with issue tracking to be highly useful for working out why a particular change was made, several months after the fact, even if I wasn't the developer responsible (or even in the team).

The topic of sex work is probably one of the last contentious issues in feminism - is it exploitative or is it empowering? Is it just like any other form of work or is the sexual aspect inherently more dehummanising and alientating than normal work?

For US-based news sites they might well only get a few European visitors. I only ever get this problem for trending stories like this.

Can't wait for the boss firing me to be an AI!

For tthe number one economy, the US is weirdly backwards when it comes to technology and infrastructure.

If some politicians thought they could get away with it, they would.

American culture in general overrides local news. The debates are front-page news despite me having no vote or influence. Same with Trump's impeachment.

I've been using TikTok on and off for the past six months, at first because I was interested in seeing what you can find on the site.

It's mostly teenager dancing stuff, yes. If you start liking political content you'll get political content too. I've found there's a lot of pro-China, both soft-power "look how pretty the countryside is" stuff and straight up Uyghur denial. There's also a decent amount of anti-China activism on there as well, though.

I think if this was just in textbooks or a informative video that would be one thing, but an actual stage show feels a bit over the top?

I do find it funny how HN used to really bemoan the strict IP laws of the US, especially when it comes to software or medicine.... but if it's China getting around those laws then boo them.