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I suppose all nodes would have to be in sync with a parent node, but indeed that is a good question. What happens when one goes rogue and starts bending the truth. There is nothing stopping criminal governments around the world from doing it, in such a set-up.

Isn't this always the case with open source / "free" platforms? Loads of volunteers put the effort in, while someone somewhere has enormous financial benefits off of it?

Oh boy there comes a yet another batch of react like “frameworks” no one needs.

Too little, too late. If it weren't for the OS, which they are also butchering, I would've moved away from Apple sooner.

That is correct, but some just tend to religiously adopt Python. Those who understand that the best tool for the task at hand is the best tool for the task at hand are fine.

Here is another one: Python is great for web development.

IMO this is a good question. It's pretty tempting to hijack an existing infrastructure such as the US army to push back an unhappy people should they become an annoyance, and the US army is by most standards, pretty scary.

But I think the US has a few more steps before reaching that stage. Making sure people are obedient is a process that started long ago, by denying them healthcare, housing or education, unless they are disciplined enough to work and not to question the system; while regulating in favor of well entrenched oligarchy.

I think the best way to coordinate is by starting cultural trends. Sudden change and revolution almost never lead to anything, and if we look at the history of the US, it's "power" is exactly that: cultural change. The tech "class" is already attempting this, but I think the approach and message are wrong and don't resonate with enough people, to create something at the scale of the hippie era.

So the US really needs the US to save itself, but by developing an ever stronger middle class, and mechanisms to protect each other's health, while allowing for money to move around freely. And I think tech can be a part of that solution (no, I am not thinking encrypted chat, AI to hack the gov, or other non american kinds of weapons, but rather genuine solutions). The more power they have, the more they can keep the government in check.

Much of the rest of the world is made of countries where people have been exploited long enough to not be able to fight back. The us is just starting to experience this, but unlike in ww2, there is no us to ...save the us. I think there will indeed be a growth in social and political tension, but the majority of the population quickly be put in its place.

Hmm well, what I had in mind was something more of and array of arrays, where each array is a row and at each index there is a column. What I had in mind is a download of such arrays, inject them to wasm, and then access them using an external interface. Was thinking about using basic array methods as I am pretty much non experienced in Rust, and would be a good learning exercise. A relational language tho might be interesting.

Depends on the country and the market in that country for contractors / consultants. The UK is pretty much boiling with demand, mainly around London, for software consultants. Hopefully the gov won't kill it with the upcoming IR35. Usually in the UK it would be recruiters that would find indie gigs for you, but you do need to have a skill for it (good mix of more than just a stack) and the agility to learn a client's code base fast, or to create one for greenfield projects. But like everything else, it takes time to build a rep.

Time to give this lang a try. Been wanting to build a web assembly large data table mechanism for a while, and rust appears to be an idea candidate from what i read (speed and reliability). Although it could be done using SQLite, i think could be a nice little project for learning Rust.

How many of these villages, once you leave the bubble, have roma people living in mud-homes and other vulnerable people that you so cleverly chose to ignore, and claim the everything is fine?

I am from eastern Europe too. It is fine to try and promote one's country, but denying facts doesn't help us either. Been to Hungary a few times, it lags behind central and western european countries by a high margin. Budapest is fine, but life is pretty rough around there. Anyway we are diverging and diving into open wounds.

Edit: As a side note, the persistence of that label might be because of the persistence of our societies in isolating from the majority of our countries, ignoring problems, and calling it progress just because a minority lives way better than the average. Unless we stick our heads up, acknowledge the issues, and solve them, then no amount of political correctness will save us.

So do 3rd world countries. It's all fun and games in Budapest, until you go around in villages where people walk barefoot. Last time i've been there I thought about taking pictures as the nationalist government of hungary does its best to hide it. But the issue is not that, the thing is it does have an opportunity to develop into something green, as do most east EU countries.

Under-developed countries have a unique opportunity to develop sustainable growth. I applaud this, despite it being symbolic. Would great to see Hungary invest in things such as green tech and fast trains as it develops.

Spoken like a true wildling.

Marketing yourself as someone who fixes bugs in unrelated projects is a noble cause. But the realities of oss are that you will likely get a fixed income job while some large corp will make loads more money off of your fixes and projects. I for one praise monetisation of open source and hope licensing will become more restrictive (i.e. if your company earns more than X$ then then you need to pay a license for it). Great engineering should be paid in freedom from 9 to 5 not just praise and contracts.

Finally, democratising open source monetisation.

Fun fact: in east eu laws are bent to protect criminals, as they are essentially those in “power”. In Romania GDPR was used as means to threaten investigative journalists (see Rise Project and GDPR). There are other criminally bent laws that predate gdpr. For instance the government used some obscure privacy “concerns” mandated by the eu (not sure which) to remove ALL traffic monitoring cameras. The result is one of the highest road deaths in the EU and naturally easier to bribe traffic police. Organised crime members are also protected by bogus human rights interpretations, where a mobster gets more rights than and old lady stealing an egg for food.

Well someone has to write shovelware and preach about how code documentation and design patterns are a waste of time.

Wondering how countries such as India will be affected by this.

Generally speaking all companies that gave users such tests have been quite mediocre imo. Code is only a part of a developer’s work.

This should be a post on its own!

I am also curious how much political advertising takes place on facebook, outside facebook's ad campaigns - i.e.: viral posts. I am more worried about those kinds of "ads", as those are more difficult to track.

If they had the culture of acquiring up and coming start-ups, such as the one making Android, there would have been an excellent result. I fell like most EU based companies lack such culture, and the result is that once great companies face great failures (unless the EU bails them out or taxes their competitors).

Nokia is a perfect example of corporate arrogance: “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost” said the CEO at the time. Yet they did everything wrong.

There is also that indeed, sadly.

Let then not pay attention. A gap in the market would be a great event for new comers. Isn’t that how google came to be - established search engines at the time became too disconnected from their end users, and google filled in the gap?

But why do we even need to cluster in massive cities, when today’s technologies allow for remote work for pretty much any non physical type of work? Accountants, developers, designers, architects, customer support, and so on can all be done remotely. That would reduce both the need to drive and to cram people in overcrowded public transport options.

Personally, regardless of manufacturer or developer, i wait a few months before a major upgrade to give them enough time to fix bugs. I do the same when it comes to cars, mobile devices, and operating systems.

However there does seem to be a pattern of regressions in apple’s products (i put on hold buying a mac pro simply because its specs are very low for the price, the gap being much higher than usual).

What i would do is ask employees what they prefer. Accounting might favour windows, while developers or sysadmins might prefer linux (let them chose the flavour). If your company is non technical the windows might be the only alternative. But either way, breaking away from a single vendor is a good idea.