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Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.

Yes — the Wikipedia article that I linked says so as well. But Polestar is headquartered in Sweden, and the cars are designed by Swedes in Sweden. It’s a Swedish brand.

Polestar is Swedish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar

It’s not just you — something happened with me where I mentally checked out from the MacOS train after Lion. The versions from Mavericks and up are “those newfangled versions with their silly names”. And Mavericks is 10 years old! Maybe it was the RDF wearing off.

Coroutines are an abstraction though.

Something that coroutines made a big impact on for us was testing. Multi-step integration tests became a breeze. With state machines, each test would need its own FSM, and callbacks would make the flow hard to read.

Great teams self-manage. Managers and management generally exist to ensure a baseline, but they can’t really do much more. In a strong team, everyone displays leadership properties, and they typically don’t listen to non-technical management.

As a software engineer (consultant/contractor), you can easily make 80k USD post tax in Sweden. That’s not too bad.

You don’t have to, most people buy their apartment. If you don’t have the money when you’re young, parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parents, the closer to the city center you can live.

I can see why this doesn’t work for everyone, and I wonder what kind of social effects it will have.

Since services are basically modules in monoliths, does that mean that we should have cute names for those as well?

I’m not sure that’s it. Sure, Norway was invaded but it was a pretty “benign” invasion in comparison to what happened to others. Same with Denmark. Would be interesting to see their stock market returns.

Nominal Swedish stock market return 1879-2012: 10.9% arithmetic mean, 9.0% geometric mean. Real return: 7.9%/6.1%. And Sweden isn’t really the world’s dominant superpower. https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/forskning/monetar...

I’ve been on the stakeholder side in a similar situation. Rather than saying that they were very busy and that it can take a while to get my task done, they strung me along (“we’ll take it up in next sprint planning”, “oh we missed your task, but it might be added to next sprint”, etc).

Sprints are also detrimental to “soft values” in my experience:

* Engineers rushing to wrap up for the sprint (stress and decreased quality is bad for morale)

* Engineers getting monitored and measured on a task level since all tasks need to be estimated (micromanagement, lack of trust)

* Agility is decreased since everything needs to be planned (lack of autonomy)

Sprints tend to become “phony deadlines”, a key component in “Teamicide” (from “Peopleware”).

I’ve been trying to come up with benefits but I’m coming up short. Wish someone could tell me!

The argument is usually that sprints just add overhead on top of picking the highest prio work from the backlog. Ie, sprints don’t have to be replaced with anything since there are no benefits.

Parts of Russia are in Europe.

Where in the world are nuclear disasters “in vogue”?

How do you deal with errors? Do you check them at every callsite and manually “bubble up”, or do you use exceptions? I’d love to use coroutines but we don’t use exceptions and I’m not super excited about handling errors manually.

I wonder if it’s the Internet’s fault. Maybe people have become so jaded by Online discourse and carry it over into IRL?

That’s exactly what it was, https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2015/11/analysen-a...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafox_drone

That's what Putin thinks at least.

What important piece of the puzzle are western media omitting that makes this not a war between Russia and Ukraine? What is the whole truth, according to you? Ironically, you're the one omitting right now.

1. You're contradicting yourself: in your third point, you say that I shouldn't trust that civilians are getting murdered, raped and tortured. But in your first point, you say that I should be expecting such behavior.

2. I'd expect there to not be a war to begin with. Russia 100% controls this, and can stop whenever they want.

3. War doesn't have to be done in the most brutal way possible.

4. "the purging related stories to be on their way and it’s not going to look pretty as usual" I don't understand what this means.

I'm getting very strong pro-Russian vibes from your comments. Not going to reply anymore -- real people are dying.

This isn’t unique to Ukraine. As an example, all Swedes are required by law to help out in case of an invasion.

Ukrainians in occupied territories seem to get murdered, tortured and raped. So yeah I think it’s fair to say they’d be better off without the Russians.