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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.

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

You might find https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news useful.

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

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.

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.

Thank you!

C++ has an optional digits separator too. Not '_' but single quotes, since c++14 [0]. Which is cool. Swift has it too [1].

Erlang has the full stop '.' as expresssion/statement terminator [2].

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal [1] https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/ReferenceManual/LexicalStr... [2] https://erlang.org/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.html

I like those features too! I'm glad they are coming to contemporary languages.

Not sure you're aware of this one too... But, you might like the "Ctrl+Tab" shortcut as well. With it you can alternate between the last few active tabs, with thumbnails. Really handy.

There is http://www.stencyl.com/ also. Used it many years ago, so not sure how it stands now. But back then, it was a very cool product. Used at a couple of game jams.

I believe that is a great point.

I have a feeling that we don't have more work-from-home-first jobs because (middle-)managers wouldn't know how to deal with that. They are not quite there for such change.

And I'm talking about the "simplest" things. Like properly defining a task. Tracking it. Signaling when it's complete. Managing risks, changes. Communication. And so on. To have as most as people at an arms reach is just too convenient to workaround any shortcomings on the managerial side.

If in the general case, i.e., working at offices, all together, we're nowhere near[1] excelling on those "simple" management stuff, things would collapse in a work-from-home situation pretty easy.

I also don't see, in general, (middle-)managers changing their stance in favor of working from home either. Don't see them getting ready for such change. Prepping to work with virtual teams in any future and such.

Perhaps, those who believe are ready for such change could (myself included), somehow[2], show theirs capability. Slowly pushing the changes bottom-up by improving his/her own communication skills, reporting, risk and change management, displaying availability, to such an extent that the concerns of those (middle-)managers are barely noticeable or reasonable?

If we could show that we can organize ourselves and coordinate our efforts towards a goal, effectively, while working remotely, those concerns about remote work could start to fade.

I believe the point I'm trying to make is that we could show better that remote work works! We could be better sellers of this paradigm. Show how we can actually help those worried (middle-)managers. Like safely climbing a ladder, one step at a time :-)

Would be this a good opportunity to create a work-from-home manifesto, in the same way we have an Agile manifesto? I don't know. But that would be something interesting to collaborate on for sure. I might put some thoughts on paper about this subject for starters.

PS: I was an IT project manager for many years, working both on-site and remotely. Now I'm a software developer working on-premises for a big company in my country not friend to the idea of remote working at all; so I could contribute my experiences and views on this subject from both ends, I believe.

PS2: non-native English writer here. So if you find something that needs clarification or correction, please let me know, I'd be grateful to accommodate those kind of feedback. Would be more grateful if you share your thoughts too, though :-)

[1] yeah, I'm aware that there are famous cases of success, but I believe those doesn't account for the majority of offices. [2] not sure how right now.