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What we saw on TV was just a glimpse of what actually already happens behind closed doors.


That's quite a jump of conclusion. Astonishing actually.

First of all, poors, worldwide, are the vast majority by any measure you pick.

So poors, becoming majority, is a no point. Moot.

Now, to another point. Poor prospering.

Have you ever considered that poor prospering can actually be a good thing? More consumption, more taxes being collected across, more wealth spread and circulating on the economy. More opportunities for the poor, and the rich, who will have a broader audience to become more rich?

And now to the subsides. Think this improvement on wealth circulation as a business, a good business outcome, shall we? As so many business, owned by riches, which make riches more rich, are already heavily subsided by governments across the globe for so many reasons (internal/external).

It's not such a big leap for yes, to advocate to some sort of subside to improve poor's situation.

Your comment sounds very classist. A true symptom of the very problem we're and will be dealing with.


I think the whole 'majority' point is supposed to be a racist dog whistle.


Oh, you reminded me about this article: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html


>> [...] I'm amazed they haven't done it.

Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.


I play with Pharo from time to time. How do you think the available tutorials lack behind what you're finding on your use cases?

What about the books available from Pharo's website?


Another perspective is this one: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html


Loved that essay!



Just a suggestion... I cannot attest for the code quality of the projects on the link below, but I find it easier to start learning from smaller code bases.

So when you have a chance you could take a look at this link that lists one-to-two files libraries: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs

I think I came across the link above here on HN a couple of weeks ago.

I also study some of the libs from here: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp.

Currently I'm going trough the libs for parsing CSV files. Of them, I find this one particularly interesting: https://github.com/vincentlaucsb/csv-parser. Because of well-commented files.

I hope it helps.


Oh, almost forgot. Another suggestion is to review C++ implementations of those designs you're already familiar with.

I'm also looking into Inversion of Control/Dependency injection containers.

And never forget to look at C++ Core guidelines: https://isocpp.org/guidelines


I understand that the 1K+ engineer number comes from Facebook as a whole, when mentioning the use of Hack as a typed PHP.

More like to give a perspective on the transition on how to come from a small company into a huge one.


WhatApps got audio and video calls after the Facebook acquisition.

Usage increased by a few orders of magnitude too.


Yeah I think people get usage confused with number of users.


That explains it. I haven’t used WhatsApp until few months ago


Thank you!


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