For me it was "Teach yourself...Assembler" - not because it was a great book or anything, but it was the first book I purchased to learn actual programming.
I don't think I even finished the book. (assembler is tedious and hard!) But it began a lifelong love of computers and software.
All things being equal, they should just use a lottery system. But that's only if all things are equal. first and foremost should be job performance / salary weighed against necessity of people in a given position.
Trying to force a social context in a business scenario is asking for trouble, IMHO.
Right, things are already not equal which is why last hire and lotteries don't work.
People also say that this is grounds for a lawsuit, but I think it will heavily depend on methodology. If they said "well you won't be laid off because you're asian" that's one thing... but if they said "layoffs traditionally favor white people, so we're going to anonymize our selection to avoid bias" then that's an entirely different story.
In theory, it makes sense that you would just create a new library with a better name, but if the original product has been on GitHub long enough to have amassed followers and a significant number of stars, they may be hesitant to have to ask those contributors to re-add the new repo.
Where i live in the suburbs we don't even have sidewalks ffs. I live about 3 blocks from my kids' school, yet they are driven or take the bus to school because kids are not allowed to bike or walk to elementary or middle school, unfortunately.
wow, didn't realize so much of EU can afford electric vehicles. They are more expensive over here in the U.S. - especially compared to a decent used car. Is this a function of the cost of fuel being much higher over there? Or are there subsidies for purchasing electric or something else?
> wow, didn't realize so much of EU can afford electric vehicles. They are more expensive over here in the U.S. - especially compared to a decent used car.
I don't live in the EU, though. You need to move a bit further north and west.
And it's not that electric cars are cheaper here than in the US, rather other cars are taxed at +100% or so (more for "luxery" cars), while electric cars have had low to zero taxes.
Also, fuel has an extra tax of about $1/liter ($3.8/gallon) on top of the normal price (and 25% VAT even on that), meaning even before the current boom, fuel was typically priced around $1.5-$/l (around $5-$7/gallon), and has been approaching $2.5-$3/l (up to about $10/gallon) recently.
Another difference compared to the US is that we have about 25% fewer cars per capita here, despite having about 20% higher nominal GDP per capita than the US (purchasing power of households are lower than in the US, due to taxes and tariffs ). Partly because of car-hostile taxes (except for electric cars) and partly because other means of transportation are subsidized. More of the money is put into buses, trains and sidewalks and less into cars, roads and parking lots.
