I'd like to highlight your word "cities", because every comment seems to suggest that there is only one - London. Why not expand the others before trying to make London even more dehumanising?
Affirmative action in south Africa was a laughing stock. The country is in terminal decline riddled with corrupt people who have no business being in their positions. No appreciation of their positions and what ordinarily would be required to achieve the position. I will bet against any institution which implements affirmative action as a solution.
Incredibly low quality piece of writing. Is this an indicator of the direction of hn? I won't stick around. Aside, I'm white and went to boarding school in Africa - does the author think I should write a blog post explaining black people?
I found it too densely informative. After the 2nd or 3rd attempt I ditched it and just jumped into programming. Personal preference possibly. I think erlang's difficulty is exaggerated. Just jump in - the immediate little wins will lubricate the process.
Agreed. Looking for examples of how to handle errors, results, etc and only ever finding unwrap has frustrated me in the past, and as a noob I would have preferred fleshed out rather than shortcuts.
"My only fear is..." - this is why I'm in the process of moving to Rust after 3 years of Go. I've come to the conclusion that a low barrier to entry leads to a bad state of affairs. Rust has a learning curve that I hope will help it avoid devolving into chaos.
Developers are mostly anonymous among the millions - they have no identity there. This is the point of stickers on laptops, as with music shirts, a shortcut to identity.