I really don't agree with this
> Eating out is a big part of your life; there are restaurants, but they're expensive and for the most part unimpressive. If someone who worked at Noma owns it, then it's probably great, but otherwise often meh.
You must have extremely high standards or have different expecations.
I guess it depends where you moved from, but if you live in Copenhagen there are a lot of great restaurants.
I spent more than a decade trying to find some place with Kung Pao chicken, impossible - it showed up in one of the street food places a couple years ago. It wasn't especially impressive.
Try to find a decent burrito, or anything to compare with any of the Mexican restaurants you can get in even the worst parts of the U.S. It's depressing!
And if you get some Mexican food in Denmark, or anything spicy really, it is an uphill fight to get it to be really spicy.
Barbecue sucks here.
This is just from U.S perspective, from the Italian perspectives I'm familiar with, almost all Italian restaurants here should be closed down.
I mean it is a lot better than it was 20 years ago, but on the other hand comparing with SF of 20 years ago - it still has a way to go.
And then as was remarked, it is super expensive even to eat something lousy.
Right ok, I see if you're looking for something non-European you'll likely not find anything as good as the good stuff in the US.
But that seems like you're looking for the wrong thing.
I understand the point in the article now though, it just seemed far more general than what you're saying here.
Also, there are barely any Chinese people here or Mexican people, why do you expect there to be mexican food?
Look for Vietnamese, Syrian, Turkish etc. and you'll find plenty of good stuff.
Evidently the article was written by somebody that had an American viewpoint about moving to Denmark, I deduced this by reading the article where they talked about being American and what the pros and cons were about moving to Denmark.
They then commented on how the food sucks in Denmark.
You didn't agree with that.
I then presented reasons why an American might think the food sucks in Denmark.
But it seems I am wrong too because Americans shouldn't expect the food in Denmark to be the kind of food they like.
I don't know how you intend to square the circle of "Americans can't get the food here they like but they are wrong to think that they can't get the food they like", but I can definitely see you trying your darndest to square it.
In short, for lots of Americans moving to Denmark the food selection and the high cost of dining out will be a drawback.
Bit late to reply to this, but my point was that it's strange to complain that specific types of food is unavailable, when the people that would make that food aren't here.
I can still appreciate that someone coming from the US might not find the food as good and affordable as back home.
If you compare it to Asia or NA people usually eat out because it's a lot of fun and you can try variety of foods. DK forces you to stay at home and cook because it's just too expensive to do it every day.
Even in Singapore I can eat out every day and dont really feel it.
Indeed, I live in Paris and my elder daughter studies in Taiwan... She discovers the possibility of street food affordable enough to her to be a normal meal. In Paris, eating out is luxury entertainment - cooking at home is the normal way.
It still depends where you are in Paris, there is areas where you can eat really cheap street food (the stands are illegal and aren't certified by health authorities, so it's at your own risks, and it's in areas some would consider 'unsafe').
Ten years ago you had more opportunities to eat different street food in Paris. Now it's kebab, and that's it. According to my father, 35 years ago it was great however. You had hot dogs, galettes, street pizza, barbecue, Chinese food and a lot of other stuff really cheap.
Well I guess there is kommuneskat, which differs between kommuner. So you can pay anything between 37 to 39 depending on where you live.
But the 15% base tax doesn't make sense to me either.
While I agree with your point, the map example is not entirely well represented in your comment.
The idea is not to just store keys and values in separate arrays, the idea is to look at your use case and model your data after the transformation you need.
So if you have a case where storing keys and values as pairs because of your access pattern, then do that, if you have a case where you do a lot of searches through keys, then store them in separate arrays.
The point of DoD is to look at the data you have and the data you need it transformed into and then structure your data after.
Part of the point of Casey's videos (Previous one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34966137) is that it _doesn't_ take more time because very often the simple thing is the fast thing.
So if most people unlearned the _more complex_ way of programming, they might end up with simpler _and_ faster code.
It seems like you may be assuming that Casey is arguing against writing clear code, which he is not.
He is arguing that you should just write the simple thing and usually that is also the most clear, readable and "maintainable" code because it is easy to get an overview of.
So what he is arguing for does not fit your coffee shop example, because of course no one should write unreadable code.
The argument is that sometimes taking a step back from how you were taught to write clean code, could be simplified in a way that is _also_ performant by default.
This advice doesn’t really differ from the actual ‘source material’ though. It’s really arguing against the people that learned what “clean code” is from a blog post or a Tweet or (most likely of all) another YouTuber that tried to take a complex engineering topic that they don’t have the experience to understand, and shove it into a video-listicle full of DigitalOcean ads and forced facial expressions.
You see the same thing with microservices. Any of the reading material by the big / original proponents of microservices is actually quite good at giving you all the reasons why they probably aren’t for you. But that doesn’t stop the game of telephone that intercepts the message before it gets do most developers.
So I really just see this whole thing as someone saying “RTFM”, rather than it being any sort of derived nuanced take.
The sooner a professional software developer can get themselves off the treadmill of garbage trendy educational content, the better.
> people that learned what “clean code” is from a blog post or a Tweet or (most likely of all) another YouTuber
Or, you know, college. Though I can only speak of my local tech college, not full blown university. I don't bear them any ill will --- there's a hell of a lot to try to teach in two years --- but a lot of the things that were taught in my degree, were very dogmatic.
You must have extremely high standards or have different expecations. I guess it depends where you moved from, but if you live in Copenhagen there are a lot of great restaurants.