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I’m not sure I follow the analogy here, are you implying technical leadership is committing heinous crimes against humanity?


It’s a joke on the original anecdote’s timeless formula of double-filtered appeal to patriarchal authority (the father relaying the wisdom of the boss to the son).


Isn't there a matriarchal equivalency anyway? I always see this sort of comparison made. Any sort of -archy society seems like it'll go to shit.


Or cleansing Christendom of its heresy? Or showing in the wrong sketch, quite contrary to expectations.


No one expects the Spanish Inquisition


AWS has a process like that as well, it’s called a COE. GP is either misinformed or making stuff up.


My working space thermometer was also measuring 26C last week and I was very uncomfortable. Tolerance for warm and cold temperatures is different for everyone.


GTA is an 8 year old game, it was released for PS4 and XBox One 7 years ago. I’m not sure how that compares?


It’s still super popular, more so than Cyberpunk and did all the stuff Cyberpunk shipped with, better, a long time before it. It does help that Rockstar have been basically working on making that kind of game for decades whereas CDPR haven’t.


Believe it or not it was released on Xbox 360 and PS3 as well.


The One Dark (Atom's default dark theme) and Solarized come to mind as widely used themes although I'm not sure they have as much of a branding as the two you named.


Austria was never part of Germany. It was part of the Holy Roman Empire and after that the German Confederation, with the latter being dissolved in 1866. The first actual united German state was founded in 1871 as the German Empire, without Austria (Kleindeutsche Lösung).


So youb are saying that React makes it easier to do bad things than good things? Would you mind extending on that?


I tried to do that in the article. But the thing is that when you're writing a little piece of code React makes it dead easy to make hover in your code. There a lot of little things like that.

You start out with good intentions, but after 4 years of different people certain parts of codebase start looking really weird even with code review. You just can't catch every little detail.

And this is why tools should make it easier to do good thing (good as in what you'd want to see in the end).


> after 4 years of different people certain parts of codebase start looking really weird

That's pretty much how software development works though. It's what happens when people with varying skill levels, schools of thought, preferences and approaches to problem solving all work in the same code base. Heck, it'll probably happen even if it's your own pet project: four years is a long time in something as fast-moving as web development, especially when you factor in things like market-driven priorities (E.G. adding new features vs. fixing old "good enough" crap kicking about).

I honestly doubt there's a single software project in history that doesn't have shady corners after a couple of years, no matter how excellent their frameworks, conventions and developers are and how draconian their review process is.


That is true, but the effect various "quirks" have on result are very very different.

I did not decide to switch from React with a light heart, it was a long and painful decision. But it seems to me that React's path of least resistance leads to a slow bundle, and you're going to fight an uphill battle.


To add to what has already been said:

Hangul is the script you are thinking of, which was invented and introduced in the 15th century by King Sejong.

However, there are many Chinese loan words in Korean language, especially on an academic level. You can even find Chinese characters in Korea today, usually in newspapers, on street or restaurant signs. For example, the Korean word for "president" is 대통령 (Taet'ongnyeong), but in newspapers it may be written as 大統領, which are the matching Chinese characters.

Also, most Korean parents choose Chinese characters to write for their children's names, which read (more or less, as Korean does not have tones) the same as the Korean characters.


I don't think that is the still the case anymore.

I navigate from time to time to Korean website, very few occasion they actually uses Chinese characters, except:

1. Some countries names. 中(China)/美(US)/日(Japan)/北(North Korea)

2. Blue House (think of it as Korean's White House, representing the headquarters of the administration), sometimes referred as 青(Blue).

3. The president's surname, sometimes referred as 文(Moon)

Except for those very limited cases, I don't think Korean people are actually using Hanja anymore, it almost feel like some sort of emoji for then, that they probably can't read it, just comprehend the meaning.

As to Korean names, yes I think they still have a Chinese name registered somewhere, but no longer required and not shown on their government ID card.


Another connection: the modern Korean alphabet shows some Mongolian influences. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul


As opposed to the two you mentioned, WhatsApp has e2e by default. Kakaotalk and Telegram force you to use "secret chats" for that which are device to device only and cannot be shared among different devices with the same account.


Uh, well, both WhatsApp and Signal are single device only to begin with.


I can continue an encrypted chat in Signal from my desktop. I don't think I can do that in Telegram.


Do you need a password to do that?


Nope, scan a QR code


> I work in C77

Do you mean C89? I've never heard of C77 and a quick Google search came up with nothing.


It looks like the author removed the bit about C77 from their post.

Although ANSI C wasn't a thing until 1989, the language had been around since 1972.

The original K&R book was published in 1978, and if you read it, you'll see C that's noticeably different from C89 or newer. 'C77' was probably just a fun bit of shorthand pjc50 used to describe old, K&R style C. Or at least C that's missing some ANSI features.


This was the very first time I ever saw anyone using the term C77. I really doubt the term was used knowingly instead of mixing up C with F77.


maybe got confused with F77.


I've touched this part of clang. No C77 but there is a C94 I was surprised to find.


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