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The watershed moment for me was when he pretended to be a top tier gamer on Path of Exile. Anyone in the know saw right through it, and honestly makes me wonder if we just spotted this behavior because it's "our turf", but actually he and people like him just operate this way in absolutely everything they do
Singapore has government enforced racial quotas, both in housing policy and in PR/citizenship grants with the goal of maintaining a stable 75/15/7.5. So it's really not a good example of merit based
Feels like we're at the stage where models are good enough, the missing piece is tooling which still needs to catch up to make full use of them.
For coding, this has started to happen and it's in full swing, what about other domains?
The article mentions Singaporeans, so I was very curious to find out how they were involved. But the word (erroneously?) links to the Hong Kong protests movement.
It wouldn't be a post about Singapore without someone bringing up the 27 year old article
Author's point is that Promise.allSettled never rejects
Anecdotally, devs I know are very sensitive to ads/privacy, much more so than to paying money.
Thank you for qualifying this as devs you know. In reality, this is a very privileged position to take and I'd bet would be a minority if polled globally (between paying in cash or in ads)
No. Singapore is a tiny city state with a service based economy
Singapore is the closest success story I can think of.
Requirements: - be a citizen - get married
The government will then build a flat for you and hand you the keys 5 years later for about a fourth of the private market price.
Of course you need an economy that can pay for all this, so it won't be universally applicable
The simple rule is to pretend all commits start with "once committed, this change will ..." Or more simply, "this will ..."