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They have been living in a limbo for 50 years at this point, but they still feel like they will be able to go back to their land therefore they don't really settle there (they are also in the middle of a desert). Some people gave up on the idea to return to their land (but still feel temporary), others were really frustrated with the fact nothing moved and you could see this frustration at the annual demo in front of the "Muro de la Verguenza", which is the "wall" erected by the Moroccans with landmines and strongholds along the front line.
But even that, let's remember that the British invaded and occupied Washington, burned down White House and Capitol, etc etc.
However, there were too many cases that things were delivered as “ready” when they were not. PR review was not enough as everyone were checking diffs from GitHub only.
I implemented an intermediate step where the responsible engineer must post a screenshot or a short video of the ticket before passing to the PM and that alone resolved a lot of issues before they materialized on customers screens, just because you must take the extra effort to work on a proof of work.
I was on the phone with him and we checked that he didn’t leak any APIs keys but no traffic at all. I even thought of a breach at a vendor he uses for some s3 stuff before I found this thread on HN.
That’s why a was always keen on cutting some corners when and where necessary in order to think about the user first and the code beauty second.
Of course I appreciate well structured and maintainable code but you can always strike a balance, even with LLMs assisted coding sessions.
(although you can say that Europe retained some manufacture capacity)
Business requires a stable environment, and Trump is making everything in his power to disrupt business stability. Ultimately, I see the rest of the world (especially Europe) relying less and less on US tech. The long term damage is done.
All the US companies that used to think about the entire world (minus China) as their market will figure out that it is much smaller then they used to think.