What about standups? Are you implying that having to be somewhere at a certain time in the morning impedes your ability to go to sleep at a reasonable time so you can get a healthy amount of sleep?
I’m not sure if there’s another word besides “patriotism”, but there certainly is a sense of continental pride amongst many (especially western) Europeans that mimics what American’s have for their nation (and not, e.g., their state [Texans aside])
I like Ayn Rand as much as the next HN consumer, but let’s be a bit more judicious in how we apply her ideals.
If you earned your wealth through driving on public roads, after receiving a public education, without it actually being blatantly stolen due to a public police force, etc etc etc.
Then it is also your responsibility to pay for these items so that they dan continue to be used for future generation.
My biggest hurdle when trying C# (along with a very select few other languages) is that it’s very difficult to get working properly in my own environment.
I use an apple computer and prefer to write my code in a simple text editor. Getting C# (or god forbid C++) just running in such a way that I can just focus on the code and not the surrounding environment or build tools took me long enough the last time I tried, that I decided to just not use C#.
Why question a human’s innate desire to raise their own off-spring like we’ve evolved to do for millions of years?
So often people chime in with the “just adopt” and while I agree in a perfect world, that’s exactly what would happen, but in reality it goes against a very fundamental part or human nature to opt to raise someone else’s child instead of your own. It just completely misses the human element of why people are so naturally driven have kids and families to begin with.
Python is popular precisely because non-programmers are able to rearrange snippets and write rudimentary programs without a huge time investment in learning the language or tooling. It’s a very high level language with syntactic sugar that has a lot of data science libraries which can call C code for performance, which makes it great for data scientists.
It would be a huge detriment and time sink for these data scientist to take the time to learn to write an equivalent C program if their ultimate goal is to do data science.