Oh, that's for sure. However I think there's a huge incentive problem here: The people who stand to gain from foreign money coming to "save Amazon" (Brazil's general population) is not the same people who stand to gain…
Yes. Bolsonaro himself has claimed that the fires were started by humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20769327
Well, for what it's worth, according to the articles it amounted to billions of dollars. It was supposed to be used to police the area for deforestation, fires and other things. As a Brazilian I disagree that other…
What about blaming the forest fires on NGOs, like he did earlier this week? That's the kind of thing being spread to his electoral base. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762592
Europe did pay. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-norway... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/norway-halts-a...
They used to pay billions of dollars according to this article. It is called Amazon Fund. However Norway and German halted the payments because Bolsonaro doesn't agree with them on how to curb the deforestation and the…
I don't agree that it's THAT hard. I used to work with WebForms and Cocoa (before iPhone) back when enterprise was completely allergic to web. Not only those tools were faster, but the development process itself was…
Reducing the amount of code shouldn't be the end goal, but a way of increasing quality. You should seek to demonstrate instead that you're making software that is more malleable, has less bugs, is easier for new hires…
Sometimes it's even more complex than a management issue. It might be a team culture or company culture issue, and even radical changes in the management are not enough to fix it.
If only. Industry this days is more about headcount than quality itself. Why hire two good engineers when you can have three mediocre ones for the same price? On simplicity, common wisdom these days dictate that we…
Oh, that's for sure. However I think there's a huge incentive problem here: The people who stand to gain from foreign money coming to "save Amazon" (Brazil's general population) is not the same people who stand to gain…
Yes. Bolsonaro himself has claimed that the fires were started by humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20769327
Well, for what it's worth, according to the articles it amounted to billions of dollars. It was supposed to be used to police the area for deforestation, fires and other things. As a Brazilian I disagree that other…
What about blaming the forest fires on NGOs, like he did earlier this week? That's the kind of thing being spread to his electoral base. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762592
Europe did pay. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-norway... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/norway-halts-a...
They used to pay billions of dollars according to this article. It is called Amazon Fund. However Norway and German halted the payments because Bolsonaro doesn't agree with them on how to curb the deforestation and the…
I don't agree that it's THAT hard. I used to work with WebForms and Cocoa (before iPhone) back when enterprise was completely allergic to web. Not only those tools were faster, but the development process itself was…
Reducing the amount of code shouldn't be the end goal, but a way of increasing quality. You should seek to demonstrate instead that you're making software that is more malleable, has less bugs, is easier for new hires…
Sometimes it's even more complex than a management issue. It might be a team culture or company culture issue, and even radical changes in the management are not enough to fix it.
If only. Industry this days is more about headcount than quality itself. Why hire two good engineers when you can have three mediocre ones for the same price? On simplicity, common wisdom these days dictate that we…