gsklee

The frontend landscape has actually been relatively stable over the last 2 years or so, with no major new contender coming up because things on the table now are all very mature. I don't foresee this to change any time soon with React and Vue, both really robust and complete, covering up two extremes of the spectrum.

The fact these recurring shitposts always began their rants with how freaking fast things are moving (in the speed they perceived) and that they couldn't keep it up strongly suggested that they're outta the loop for a long time or they aren't good frontends in the first place. It's also really harmful to the industry; I've seen a few frontend wannabes backing out because of all these uncalled for FUDs creating mental barriers for newcomers while I've repetitively tried to assure them it's really not that unstable in recent years.

> It seemed to me that he was interjecting with arbitrary comments

No, he's having fluent and meaningful exchange of words with those interviewees.

> Chinese speaker here

You're definitely not a native speaker.

> almost like mocking the Chinese staff

I'm not sure why you interpreted it that way but there's absofreakinglutely no mocking people in there, hey.

All of those whom he interviewed were speaking Mandarin with different degrees of accents and apparently the guy has some pretty decent level of command of the language so he can still converse with most of them no problem. The last one he interviewed (starting from 03:30) spoke with a heavily accented version of Mandarin so even I had to pay attention to understand like, 80% of what he was saying; the reporter probably had issues understanding him as well so he just smiled and nodded. Overall I found the reporter's usage of Mandarin as well as his interaction with others to be very natural.

I am a native Mandarin speaker.

Are you comfortable with the thought of being forced to abandon the traditional Latin script and picking up a new script based on half-straightened squiggly handwriting form of alphabets, in everyday reading, on papers and screens? If yes, then I think you indeed made a point.

> I guess the point of codifying existing handwritten forms is probably true for the Chinese simplified characters also?

> Many of the simplifications were made by taking a cursive form and declaring it the "official" version.

Wrong. While many simplified characters were modeled after their cursive forms, it's not simply taking these cursive forms and declared them "official". Per se, the cursive form is cursive, and the simplified characters are in regular script. The problem is, when you forcibly bend the curves into straight lines, many lost their artistic aspects and became ugly abominations.

> Like I said, in China primary motivator was improving literacy rate.

The funny thing: Taiwan uses the traditional set and has a higher literacy rate than China. People used to blame the traditional characters as too complicated and a hinderance to literacy. Apparently what really matters at all is the education itself.

This cocky attitude fuels racial discrimination and should be strongly condemned.

If you have some basic ideas about human history you should know that the Arab world helped preserve a great deal of classical knowledge from the Greek/Roman Era while the "Western Civilization" f*cked itself so hard in a cultural regressive "Dark Ages".

All human inventions are progressively built on past discoveries and you should be ashamed for only taking things at their face value.

Disgusting. All the hate crimes after Brexit suggest that Western Civilization is not as advanced as you'd like to believe.

What's the tech scene in New Zealand like? How are things there going compared to Australia?