Germany has very good support for parents, and has been working hard to reverse the downwards fertility trend. Some progress is showing. (Note that I don’t disagree that Sweden is doing better.)
This comment is interesting because these are the same countries that are often used to show how “backwards” the US is due to their comparatively strong safety nets, etc. I guess when it comes to Europe, people can only pick and choose the best example for each discussion despite it varying wildly just like the US, is that right?
No, you’re right; but these 4 countries aren’t even close to the European average on many aspects. Some of them aren’t even part of the EU, which is normally what gets compared against US markers.
from my admittedly limited knowledge of the Nordics, they are much more collectivist than Americans.
For example, Swedes have it drilled into their heads from an early age that "everyone deserves a home". This is not the case in America, where "poor people deserve to be poor because they're lazy, cut welfare, universal health care is socialism" is an acceptable statement, and in fact the basically party line for one of the two major political parties.
This is ridiculous. The number of LOC doesn’t define whether something is well implemented. You can’t crank out a better design or proper feature implementation by asking developers to write code faster or write more code in a given day.
Not really, the shotgun approach actually works with sales - especially if the sales force has been slacking and not chasing leads.
Whereas with code, deleting code and writing less code is very much preferred because each line of code written increases the complexity and risk in the system.
This is why business teams who are shirking discovery and instead focusing on the anti-pattern of trying to increase engineering productivity is such a massive mistake. Not only is the team pooping out code that doesn't fill a need (and hence won't be monetized), but they are also rapidly increasing complexity and opening the business to future liability when the code causes customers to seek remediation.
The quarter driven nature of most companies amplifies this bad behavior. This is why we see this revolving door of executives who come in, drive some bad initiative to incompletion, declare success and move on before their chickens come home to roost.
None of that is how sales works. “Just try harder” is bad advice in basically any context.
Everyone in this thread is trying to point out to you that your assumptions about sales are the same as the LoC assumption that equivalently clueless people make about software.
There is a proven relationship between contacts made and sales made. Which is why sales managers constantly push sales staff to be making calls. Sales has been around for way longer than development, the underlying theory for sales is well known. Just like the underlying theory for manufacturing is well known.
No there isn’t. There’s sometimes a correlation, but only people without knowledge of sales think that’s causal. If you want meaningful sales you have to approach it fundamentally differently than you seem to think. Your universal law of sales only applies to commoditized products, and if you’re selling those you’ve already lost.
But 100 phone calls will, there is actually no such relationship in code - in fact deleting code significantly reduces liability, I guarantee reducing sales calls will not have the same effect.
‘Click Here to Kill Everybody’ talks in great detail about the asymmetry of defending against attacks. We are in a timeline where this is getting worse over time. A 100x or even 1000x budget/effort is now required to defend against some attack vectors. This isn’t fair, but it’s the state if affairs. My point being: you’re right, but tanks are now orders of magnitude cheaper than anti-tank defenses.
I think they did care about flavor, as was mentioned in a news article interview about Pepper X. I don’t remember the full quote, but something like “you can’t just make it hot, it has to taste good”. But maybe it’s hard indeed to detect any flavor once you’re dealing with 2.6M Scoville units.
As a Star Wars fan, Disney’s failure on this topic isn’t technical at all. The content is just mediocre; it doesn’t excite or motivate one to watch, it feels bland and commercial. What they’re doing to other franchises — and notably Pixar’s work — is quite similar.
Wait for Intel Lake Michigan, which freezes in winter and stays relatively cool in summer. I jest, but I don’t understand how they’re getting power regulation so hit-and-miss.
I’m not sure about these specific platforms, but we consume a lot of APIs at work for which we must agree to specific conditions of these APIs. That seems reasonable, otherwise the TOS cannot be enforced (because they can be ignored).
