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Mike Brock · 158w
Yeah. Europe has a regulate-first approach to technology, which is insane. And their labor policies remove all dynamism from their workforce.
simo profile picture
I am slowly coming around to some aspects of the labor policies... although just as many are bonkers. They also vary widely between countries, no one-size-fits-all.

Labor law hacks like food delivery non-employee self-employed "partners" seem to be just as effective in Europe as they are in the US, with similar debates taking place around the topic.

That the biggest general problem with the European labor policies is their inflexibility and staunch resistance to change. "This is the way it has always been" is poison for startups that want to change the structure of how work gets done, offer non-traditional benefits, more vacation, more pay, equity compensation etc.
simo profile picture
Dunno if there are any rubyists around, but recently open sourced a library to bring inline snapshot testing to ruby and rspec. How does one safely self-modify ruby code, you might be wondering? Turns out rubocop is already really good at that 😬

https://rubygems.org/gems/rspec-inline-snapshot

#ruby #opensource #code #testing #rspec #rubygems #gems #rubocop
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Josua Schmid · 155w
Rubyist here. But I‘m not a big fan of snapshot tests 😬
davies · 159w
GM 🇫🇮
21seasons · 159w
What client are you using? Also #[2] seems to be working quite well
Mike Brock · 159w
Yes, this is neat.
Mike Brock · 159w
I'm not sure. My completely limited sense is that it could be pretty difficult to make drastic changes to entrenched language, given that cognition and language is very linked, and as Chomsky and others have argued, our brains have an intrinsic linguistic grammar that is common to all known human la...