> I think a good ol’ Pete Hunt-style “Thinking in X mode” blog post would go a long way.
They point out that maybe all that's missing is a simple explanation of the thinking behind the new React features is, much like React and its developers did when they first introduced ground breaking features.
> Remember that React is supposed to take care of the “how” so that we can focus on the “what” of our apps. This mantra though, assumes that we can predict the “how”-part correctly.
Their claim is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to predict how React is supposed to work in different scenarios.
If you've been using Mutt, the concept of multiple recipients itself is a much harder process of discovery :)
Ironically, I am moving from Thunderbird to Mutt (NeoMutt actually). I find the elimination of HTML means it's actually easier for me to not get distracted by stuff I dont care about for email, which is interaction with real human beings, who are unlikely to be typing complicated HTML messages. Besides, with the right config (I'm still working on it), the HTML message is 1 shortcut away.
Unfortunately, my colleagues, who mostly use Outlook, employ HTML to its full extent when pasting in content to messages. ("Refer to the text highlighted in red.", "See the table for details", etc.)
Back in my BBS days, there was ANSI color with IBM-extended (CP437) block graphics to liven things up, so I can see it has gone full circle a bit.
Yes, if that's how it's implemented... Gmail doesn't. They wrap your email address text in a button thing. Others prefer semicolons, or was it commas, or was it both?
Its just yet another thing I shouldn't have to think about
It's not a mobile constraint. Nearly every desktop mail client also uses a single To line.
I mentioned mobile because as far as discoverability is concerned, there is an order of magnitude more mobile users than desktop users, so the vast majority of users will have no problem understanding this concept.
And if you've been a desktop user long enough that you havent used a smartphone then you're probably used enough software that have similar patterns (and used email enoguh) that you shouldnt have trouble realizing that single To line means you can add multiple recipients to the same line.
It's difficult, if not impossible, to fly to basically any country from the US.
The EU is currently debating exemptions for spouses who have been separated, so I doubt they have exemptions for students.
And even if the exemptions and all are sorted out, who thinks it's a great idea for a whole bunch of students to have to fly in what will now potentially be crowded planes, and then have to spend at least a couple of weeks in quarantine, for something that was not a choice of theirs at all.
Also, as if the rental/retail market wasn't bad enough, especially in college towns many of which are single industry towns, this is gonna add to even more completely unnecessary and avoidable hardship.
This is disastrous policy in every form, other than if youre someone who gets off on unnecessary cruelty.
In this case, the students would be returning home, and therefore be citizens of the country they are flying to. Generally speaking (including the EU, which you mentioned), citizens are exempt from the travel bans. Even during the quarantine, there were once-a-week flights to China from the US (https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/business/us-china-flights-int...)
Not saying that these changes aren't horrible, they are, but I don't think getting home is impossible. Very difficult, in most cases yes.
I finally shelled out the $ for the paid version of a flight radar app because I was curious. The friendly skies are mostly empty. 85ish% of all flights in and out of Bay Area is from/to China.
I always had the free version but the paid version will ping me every time a flight goes over me(my phone actually) and for a mere $6.99/month, I can find out the air traffic of the area. It’s an affordable hobby for covid. I highly recommend it.
I don’t know what it really means but just an observation.
You may be looking at freight flights. There are 8 (4 until recently) pairs of commercial passenger flights between US and mainland China per week. 2 of those starts/ends Bay Area.
That's not the same thing at all. There's always been a flight a week from the US to China, so even if it takes a while, it's still possible. Especially so with at least a month's notice.
In the long run, we're all dead. Or perhaps just cured of covid.
There's ~375k Chinese students in the US. At one flight a week, it would take over 20 years for all to return home (to be fair, there's actually 4 flights a week I believe -- so merely 5 years). This is a de-facto blocking of citizens from returning.
And no, you can't just "wait" a month. As a sibling commenter noted, the best they could find were October tickets.
Li Hui decided to return home long ago, but the "cheap tickets" she had booked twice had their flights cancelled. Now, she can't find any ticket with a price of less than 40,000 yuan. The tickets she might be able to book are almost all from 60,000 upwards. Of course, these tickets are in the hands of some scalpers. Many Chinese students around her who want to return to China are booking high-price tickets through scalpers.
The article is from June. Those were flights she had booked in February/April for May/June. They got canceled because of the pandemic. Same for the next flight. And all others after that. The airline couldn't reschedule her for the next flight because it wasn't flying.
The fact that they arent even aware of the contradiction of saying that it's journalists who have too much power while complaining that someone is powerless because they don't have a lot of social media followers or that journalists are driven by the need to go viral on social media is scary to say the least.
That's a really interesting idea that I never thought about. Seems to make a lot of sense.
As far as business deserves to know what they are paying for, that is absolutely correct as well.
The problem is that business is not paying for story points. They are paying for actual product and delivery. So when they measure output by story points, you end up with a situation where teams are trying to maximize story points delivery, etc. as opposed to actual product delivery.
> business is not paying for story points. They are paying for actual product and delivery.
but that's the whole problem, if you constrain time, cost and result there's no any space left for agility.
the point of agile is to maximize the value of what can be produced with a given team within a given project, you picked time and cost and you apply agile to emerge stories that are actually important to you and push back on the gold plating.
if you have all three fixed, waterfall works just fine, actually even better.
I'd argue if it wasn't for the media "doom and gloom" a lot of companies (maybe even the vast majority), would not have had their C level folks divert money towards fixing the issue.
The simple reason is that any one company may have been liable for a very small portion, which if it failed, would not have caused much trouble. But that failure combined with many other failures down the entire chain of connected and unconnected software would have added up to something much greater than the sum of parts.
We saw similar stuff happen with Flash, Silverlight (which wasn't as reported a concern since silverlight usage was so low, but I saw it within my company).
The media pressure was a significant reason why every company needed to have a plan to deal with it.
> I think a good ol’ Pete Hunt-style “Thinking in X mode” blog post would go a long way.
They point out that maybe all that's missing is a simple explanation of the thinking behind the new React features is, much like React and its developers did when they first introduced ground breaking features.