Great read, thanks for that!

Ah, thanks, my formatting skills are quite limited.

Rosetta Code Global Ranking Position Language

1 C

2 Pascal

3 Ada

4 Rust

5 C++, Fortran

6 Chapel

7 OCaml, Go

8 Lisp

9 Haskell, JavaScript

10 Java

11 PHP

12 Lua, Ruby

13 Perl

14 Dart, Racket, Erlang

15 Python

Yea, and tomorrow Musk announces the imminent go live of his robot sales, predicts several million will be sold in a matter of months and the stock will bounce back up 10%.

Even if I was still an active investor I would not bet against Tesla. Musk has proven a master in stock manipulation.

Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.

I’m not saying it wasn’t a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don’t want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.

I regularly donate to wikipedia, the guardian, keepass2android, whatever fund raising Ukraine Matters has at the time I feel like donating and lemmynsfw. Also have a tax deduction directed to animal shelters.

I used to support the internet archive, but I’m still pissed off at their stupidity.

The EU is slow moving. That can be detrimental to techhnological arms races sometimes, but the stability it provides also has a lot of benefits. Currently they are consulting start-ups in a bid to streamline innovation and incentivize venture capital. Germany is now actively trying to make business administration easier. So the necessary steps are being taken, but it will take time to implement as is the wont of the EU and its member states.

All change starts with talk, but I do think that European politicians see the acute need for a new innovation framework that is tailored to the times. Even when that framework is in place it will take several more years to visibly notice results. But then the EU per definition looks at the long game, so it’s not a bad thing per se.

Maybe it’s a cultural thing? I’ve only ever worked for Belgian and Dutch companies (and one Austrian one, but that was a project of only a couple of months).

All those companies were meritocratic and had an active agenda of nurturing talent.

This is how I work too tbh. Yes, you get more work, but then if it really becomes too much, they will just assign others to help you out (at least, that’s how it always went with me) and then you start delegating. You drill them, they become good, you delegate more. That frees up time for you to actually improve and automate stuff, freeing up more time for the delegates, allowing you to focus even more on making their and your life easier.

I’m in IT, so this might not work in every job type, but I’ve done this in every position I was in and it always worked so far.

They were not a founding member and even had their application vetoed by France before joining a decade later, but still well before the creation of the euro.

True, but all new members sign an agreement that they will eventually join the eurozone. It’s not enforced and there is no pressure to do so, but on paper they agree to it.

There are not many employers that allow that in my experience.