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I don’t think these articles exist for a technical audience or the bricklayers doing the integration. I think these are for the non-technical decision makers and business executives
I’ve always thought these posts were for non-technical product buyers and decision makers.
There are four types of economies. Developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina.
Japan has so many unique sociocultural idiosyncrasies that shape economic decisions.
> Tokyo, young people... because of unstable housing and insecure employment.
This couldn't be more wrong.
People on minimum wage jobs in Tokyo can afford a standalone 1 bedroom apartment in the suburbs. White collar workers can pay off a house in less than 5 years if they wanted, too. The Google engineers can do it in 2, a manager probably 1. My rent's barely 5% of my income versus 30%+ of income being commonplace for young people in Bay Area / New York.
Japan's labor laws are exceedingly protective of employees, and it is nearly impossible to fire a full time employee. This is why you don't hear about layoffs happening in Japan. There is still widespread expectation that employees will stay at a job for decades, if not their entire life. Unlike America where 401ks replaced pensions and workers have to take more responsibility in their retirement, pensions are still the de factor employee perk in Japan.
That said, pensions are part of the problem. With demographic collapse, the pension system is growingly unsustainable and the likely solution is significant taxes increases over the next few decades.
Other reasons for declining birthrates is social media. For dating, people are exposed to a lot more options which leads to decision paralysis. It's been known that people less populated areas are more likely to marry their high school sweetheart. (Accessible) travel has made less people want to settle down in their 20s and 30s.
As evidence that young people have different different economic priorities, consider the prevalence of fashion consumption in Japan. There's literally a Louis Vuitton store at every major train station around Tokyo. While not at rates similar to China, the luxury goods market is continuing to grow in Japan, despite inflation and economic repercussions of COVID-19. There's 4 Celine stores in Ginza alone, which is an obscure brand to most Americans, but most young Japanese would recognize this. On any given train car in Japan, you will find a young person sporting a garment that's $500+ which is the average rent for a studio in Tokyo.
So you confirm that this term is obvious for people who are familiar with races in general. I’m not and don’t even know what units those K’s are in. I’m going to presume kilometers, but who knows.
> I assume a patternmaker is someone who focuses on making patterns, probably novel, with sewing and crocheting
> Yep, seems close enough. Amazing what one can do with basic logic
The only thing they have in common is textiles. This is as close as saying people who know how to edit HTML/CSS are coders or scriptmonkeys are hackers.
No shit I know the word pacer means someone who keeps pace. What that means in context and culture is a different thing.
I’m sure you run then, because again I have no idea what you mean by “splits”
Without Googling, did you know what a patternmaker is?
I had to follow up with a Wikipedia search where just the usage of the term “pacemaker” or “pacesetter” made things more clear.
https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/make-a-splash...
Why should the average reader be expected to know the distinction between keys, ciphertexts, and number sequences. They're just codes.
This is AtlasObscura intended for travelers, not an academic journal.
It's like learning about functional programming and the gatekeepers explain a monad as being "a monoid in the category of endofunctors".
Local governments also request funds from the central government.
Also, people pay taxes directly to central governments.
We're looking to find the lowest common denominator of expressing UI components and thinking about JSON metadata instead of Web Components. With this, we'd have to implement some adaptor that maps JSON to each UI library, but in our case we really only have to worry about React and Native Mobile.
The reality is that if the codebase and style code is in flux, that idealized CSS stylesheet will churn towards a being a mess of tech debt. Utility CSS contain redundancies (on the HTML side of things), but the rule of dumb is that you shouldn't refactor redundancies until you are absolutely sure what the unit of abstraction / isolation should be. In the case of prototype and fleshing out your designs, having a concise CSS stylesheet won't work, especially if you work with other people who are tunnel visioned on one specific scenario (a sort of tragedy of the commons) and not thinking hollistically as you would as an solo developer. We can think of that idealized, perfectly concise, stylesheet an "unstable saddle point" whereas utility CSS is not already at the saddle point but it does converge towards a stable one.
Wondering if there are plans to add a grid with drag+drop? We're looking to emulate the iOS homescreen where you have a grid of Icons that can be dragged/dropped using https://shopify.github.io/draggable. Having an integrated solution would help us avoid haphazard glue code.
This is actually a myth. See the changing of hands of sex.com. Also, Domain names are being less important as users stay within apps / content platforms like FB, Instagram and TikTok. Also Google Search and soon ChatGPT.
> Buildt is an AI tool to help developers quickly search and understand large codebases.
You don’t have to be the best sports player to be a great sports coach. You don’t have to be the best programmer to be a great engineering manager. The problem is that companies have not decided it cost effective to pay more for recruiters that know how to code or even have a CS degree.
This said, I think AI, ChatGPT/LLMs, and probabilistic models can make inferences about skill transferability. Interacting with ChatGPT could effectively become a fizzbuzz programming interview. Potentially, we can have the AI randomly remove a line of code from otherwise correct code, and interacts with the interviewee to debug what’s wrong with the code.
In Japan, where tips are prohibited, attitude from service workers is much better than US.