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‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee
  • He's basically just whining about his competition being able to attract more talent by offering better conditions that he doesn't want to compete with.

    It's no different than complaining that the competition has a better/cheaper product and people are not buying yours.

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    In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past
  • Sounds like he's just repeating a common meme. I don't see anything about higher level design that would make it more difficult for an AI (hypothetical future AI, not the stuff that's available now) compared to lower level tasks.

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    It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code @ Things Of Interest
  • It's not nitpicking, stuff like this is far more impactful than choosing between 5 lines vs 10 lines long methods, or whether the hasExtraCommissions "if" belongs inside or outside of calculateExtraCommissions. This kind of thing should immediately jump out at you as a red flag when you're reading code, it's not something to handwave away as a detail.

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    It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code @ Things Of Interest
  • Why is it a void method? This only tells me that some state is mutated somewhere, but the effect is neither visible nor documented.

    I would expect a function called "calculate" to just return a number and not have any side effects.

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    China Rejects $1 Trillion Housing Rescue Plan Pitched by IMF
  • So where do all the renters come from?

    https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/a-quarter-of-china-city-dwellers-rent-survey-shows - same website that your wikipedia link lists as source

    But none of that is relevant to the article of this post. That article talks about money to complete unfinished projects. It's in the very first paragraph. There are people who took out loans to buy pre-construction apartments with plans to live there, who are now in trouble.

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    China Rejects $1 Trillion Housing Rescue Plan Pitched by IMF
  • But the article is specifically talking about unfinished projects.

    So you don't have a flat to live in either, you have an abandoned construction site.

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    Russian space control center in Crimea struck by Ukrainian ATACMS missiles
  • I can't believe I have to explain this. Anyway

    The comparison to Alex Jones and other conspiracy nutjobs was about how they don't care about any facts or context, and just like to string together random headlines into some doomsday narrative that supports their view.

    The phrase "tankie infowars" means basically that - same methods, just different target audience. So you would switch around who the good guys and bad guys are, but not much else.

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