But isn't aren't drugs de-facto legal in Mexico anyway? The cartels are thought to control the police, judges and politicians enough that they do not fear the rule of law much. If drugs were legalized in Mexico, wouldn't the cartels do what cartels do anyway and prevent everyone else from producing?
Or do you mean make it legal at the destination - the US?
No idea, but I once heard that at Valve, employees are completely free to choose what they work on, and that various hit games were initiatives from a bunch of developers who had a cool idea and decided to organise to build it. Gabe supposedly just hires smart people and trusts them to be smart enough to decide what needs to be done.
No idea if that's true, but if it is, that attitude strikes me as left-libertarian.
I don't know if they still operate that way, but the Valve Manual For New Employees is actually a fun read. Evidently you just roll your desk over to the project group you want to be a part of and roll with it.
i wrote that from memory, pardon for misquoting. page 55 - "Gabe Newell — Of all the people at this company who aren’t your boss, Gabe is the MOST not your boss, if you get what we’re saying."
Read lots of blogs/posts by ex-Valve employees who portray this libertarian dream as a terrible place to work though. Although that could just be because its the gaming industry and not Valve specifically
In a related article about Newell, he is trying make arrangements to have developers come to NZ for work during the pandemic as Valve, according to Newell, has seen productivity drop by 50-75% since working from home started.
That’s a ton, and worse than most companies. I have to imagine this management/work culture is at least partly to blame.
If work culture revolves strongly around people meeting each other at lunch or in the bathroom and discussing ideas there, then moving their desks together to work on those ideas, then I can imagine working from home hurts that way of working. They need more informal online chat channels, probably. Maybe an algorithm than randomly matches employees to each other to chat about what they're working on at the moment. But I can imagine it's hard to replace the direct contact.
> Gabe supposedly just hires smart people and trusts them to be smart enough to decide what needs to be done.
I mean... that's the dream for everyone responsible for overseeing workers and/or managers in more normally structured organizations, or am I wrong in that assumption?
Also, Valve can afford this "organization" because their money most likely isn't going to run out from a few failed projects over the years.
Each Fossil repository is its own SQLite database. Additionally, there's an SQLite database which holds ChiselApp.com user information (which is unrelated to Fossil information).
Just skimmed real quick. It actually seems p. good and I would check it out again more deeply. https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html (and the other articles there) have some good ideas about organizing well in plain C / niceties from 'modern' C too.
I'm not exactly sure why it's "modern" C, but it is an introduction to C via establishing a somewhat rigorous and complete fundamental understanding of it.
He makes a point of including all the newer features of C, including fixed-size integers, thread API, restrict qualifiers, and atomics, and dedicate a very significant part of the book to them. On top of that he gives many best-practice advice, that you could call "modern", as they are often violated in 20+ year old C code (and often by people who learned C in the 80's, in my experience).
Definitely recommend. I recently bought a book on Amazon on distributed systems[0] which talked about fault tolerance without even a cursory mention of Joe Armstrong's work. I've returned the book, but I wish I could have browsed the bibliography before buying.
There's a lot of lingering resentment in that whole general area, even after all these years.
Some of it is justified. Most of the satellite countries had to pay tribute (taxes) to the empire, money that could have been used instead for self-development. Compound this issue over centuries, and maybe you can understand why people are not happy about that part of history.
Or do you mean make it legal at the destination - the US?