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US marketing currently happen to be understood almost everywhere and native speakers of English have an advantage. A company does not necessarily need to execute better, but through effective communication they may be able to pretend they are.

There are lot of examples of ideas being picked up and reimplemented in the US, where the original was better but where the adaptation got better traction. The film industry is full of it.

Why should ingenuity not be evenly spread around the globe as well as hopes for a better future? The US represents one particular policy for wealth distribution that happen to work well for, in particular, VCs.

Eventually, I moved to other platforms and programming languages and had an epiphany that to function as a programmer of Windows software, I needed to know a lot of details about the platform. The literature was overflowing with articles about how you could utilize the platform more efficiently if only you knew some details under the hood. Moving away from Windows programming freed up a lot of mental resources.

When I started programming in Java on top of all libraries and frameworks, I noticed that I was never really encouraged to look beyond the API. On the other hand, there were usually multiple implementations of those APIs, so if I wasn't satisfied with one, I could choose another.

Of course, building GUIs in Java was (and still is) a real mess, so I didn't do that. Since then, I have programmed quite a bit in C# with the classic Forms-based platform on .NET, and this was a totally different experience from C++ and MFC. It was a delight.

Reading this article was like traveling back in time to the olden days, where you are promised better performance if only you look under the hood. My honest suggestion is: don't do that, don't lock up resources on needing to understand how things are implemented under the hood or how the compiler handles these particular constructs. If these details cannot be hidden from you, and you need to build a large knowledge base around stuff that does not directly contribute to implementing your program, then choose another platform.

I have managed to accumulate a growing understanding of how to solve problems, many times transferable between platforms and languages, but collecting all that insight into MFC minutiae was completely worthless.

Some decades later I see that Ousterhout, among others of course, is still contributing to the community, e.g. the Raft consensus algorithm, while the steam may have left Tcl.

The 2ms delay would be just about right.

  “[..] this version removes the hard edge produced by memcpy”
  “[..] most players use malloc to get memory while new is the c++ method and sounds better”

So the class action lawsuit 3:20-cv-7842 [1] in the US district court for the northern district of California cannot possibly be valid since it names AIRBNB, INC. and AIRBNB PAYMENTS, INC. as defendants?

K. 231

[1] https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editoria...

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  > got a light?
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I can think of an enormous corpus of things that does not contribute to anything in any way -- like watching sports ;)

Some companies are powerhouses!

[1] http://seastar.io [2] https://www.scylladb.com

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We are going through a tremendous democratisation of dissemination of opinions. Each and everyone can publish content and there are better platforms for building a reader base.

The humans having opinions are mostly the same as before. The ability to hold at least two contradicting ideas in your head at the same time is still subject to the normal distribution of intelligence. My very subjective take on this is that individual humans can shine, while humans as a population... not so much.

A key, post modern, difference is that everybody has their own right to their understanding of 'truth'. There is no longer any normative mechanisms that weed out outliers, allowing QAnons of this world to proliferate. I am really not very hopeful for the near future. Over time, we will of course learn to live with this situation.

Mental models live on a continuum ranging from directly incorrect to accurate. You always have them, mostly the incorrect ones early on in your career. With wisdom comes the accurate mental models and I would kill (not literally of course) for obtaining the good ones :)