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I'm not sure you can call what is in Central America actual functioning capitalism. A random individual in that area can't easily raise capital and start a business. They are subject to extreme levels of crime and cronyism. A lot of Central America is more like a set of fiefdoms with a king rather than what would reasonably be called some kind of western capitalism.

Consider your favourite successful startup and move it to Central America. Now consider what additional factors it needs to take in to simply operate. Take security as an example: Private guards acting with high aggression (machine guns) are a basic requirement in some areas. Compare that to New York (Hand gun).

It's not a reasonable comparison.

Complexity often masks a lack of search for simplicity. Or was "let" the simplest answer?

I don't agree with "unusable" but "academic" probably has some justification.

The fact that it has a "let" keyword does make it "academic" to me. I'm fairly sure we can now have compilers that don't need such hints to be explicitly provided. Rust enjoys its let keyword so much they have a "If let" syntax.

Languages that use random punctuation without providing real benefit could also use a cleanup. Lua with ~= is a good example: Tilde in mathematics means "approximate". In C != means "not equal". So lua's designers can be accused of either never seeing C or deliberately choosing something different. Given that Lua is implemented in C they can't easily claim ignorance.

Archaic and awkward ways of expressing code shouldn't be propagated into new languages unless here is a clear benefit. Have a look at Erlang. Excellent overall but has lots of old warts from yesteryear you wouldn't want in a modern language. Eg look at its string syntax / naming rules. Now compare it to Elixir. Modern. Same VM.

Moving with the times is useful. Future languages shouldn't be adding debris everywhere just to be different.

I've worked in such places. Kissing on cheek etc is also a thing. It will be interesting to see where that leads in the long tail of the #metoo change. I've already seen a lot of people who I've known to overly hug and show affection at work stop doing so. At one workplace HR got all "scorched earth" policy and made it very clear it wasn't acceptable at all. Apparently the concern was women initiating contact then feeling uncomfortable later and complaining about the person they hugged. Two instances at that site alone. I wonder how frequent it is since I'd never heard of it as a thing before.

How does this compare to just using Postgres?

Is this a networked version of sqlite?

You did what? Can you show an example? Webpage perhaps?

Python, Lua, Perl, and oddly enough C. Embedding these in C also works well.

Interpret "Embedding C in C" as writing a dynamic linked library for an existing executable rather than something more exotic.

I recommend C here only for simple standard in/out style tools. Not complex all-in-c applications.

Maybe forcing google devs / management to use 4gb ram machines would incentise them?

Requiring 16gb or more for email is excessive.

I've been assigned tasks and simply essentially ignored them after any of my initial questions were ignored by those who assigned the task. Reasons include: task not assigned by my supervisor. No funding. No resources in general. No consultation. Person who assigned tasks has no authority to do so. These are similar and all have happened to me more than once.

I get why the status update lying part offends but I'd also say the project manager who tolerates this isn't really project managing. Setting traps isn't the height of high performance I'd be aiming for.

But let's say you assigned a task and know the magic key is required. And the magic key is never accessed or acquired. You as project manager have failed. Did you reveal this dependency as a requirement? Are you sure that dependency is real? And why did you wait so long?

I've got a project in my history where I was expected to use a corporate credit card to purchase server time on AWS but didn't. When asked why I said I'd found better internal resources that worked at higher performance for the time needed. Imagine my surprise when I got criticised by immediate manegemenr for not spending 30k but praised by upper management for saving 30k and delivering ahead of schedule.

The real reason was that someone had 30k they wanted burnt before financial end of year but didn't state this as a goal. The project instead simply optimised for real cost and schedule instead, offending the management that wanted the money burnt.

By the way, the canaries in the coal mines usually died. I feel that tech in general should remember details like this and not create delicate metaphors for real events that had gruesome realities. Something is only a canary when the messenger died during delivery of that message. Just my $0.02 worth.

Definitely seen the divides it's created in the communities. The CoC discussion is likely a positive thing as it is bringing up issues that need light in them. I'd like to see some evidence of the funding limitations, quotas etc.

That said, a lot of the CoC discussion rapidly goes into political discussions about meritocracy / Marxism. As I'm reading "Gulag Archipelago" at the moment, I'm starting to see some parallels in the modern world we as a species should definitely have already learnt from. The number of deaths from Marxism and Nazism is horrific.

sudo change behaviour didn't work.

Maybe you used the wrong option?