> If you go to Spain and order Chinese, it's made to accomdate their tastes.

Just like how pho and bandeja paisa in America is accommodated for the American palette which would be why Americans (I'm assuming you are American) would prefer their version of the dish over the country of origin's version?

Furthermore maybe you like the Middle East's sushi more because the Middle East has no sushi legacy and can appeal to the Western palette more?

I agree that America can have incredible cuisine that rivals other countries, but that's sort of the article's point - the majority of America is still devoid of this excellence.

It's cool to see how the Thai government has used food / restaurants as a form of diplomacy. This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09QCLmnCUU) elaborates more but the ratio of Thai Americans to Thai restaurants is high (300k pop. to 5k restaurants) because of Thai government efforts.

I grew up in a predominantly white midwestern US city and even we had a lot of Thai restaurants, maybe even more than Chinese or Indian. People really liked pad kee mao, pad see ew but Pad kaphrao never seemed to catch on (no product market fit haha).

It'll be interesting to see if these efforts will actually make the dish more popular - from its base ingredients (ground meat, rice, basil, and egg) it definitely seems like something Americans could get behind

> It's cool to see how the Thai government has used food / restaurants as a form of diplomacy. This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09QCLmnCUU) elaborates more but the ratio of Thai Americans to Thai restaurants is high (300k pop. to 5k restaurants) because of Thai government efforts.

Something I notice whenever I visit a Thai restaurant (which is often, since I enjoy Thai food a lot) is how much effort they put in making the decor represent the country. Of course, many ethnic restaurants have decoration influenced by the culture, but in the case of Thai restaurants there's a much heavier focus on the country - with flags, pictures of royalty, &c. Sometimes it really seems like one big PR scheme.

Living in northern Europe, btw. No idea if it's like this everywhere.

Lots of fun, Neal's work is always very impressive - not only on the technical implementation level, but the creativity as well.

Interesting this is being marketed as a 2.0 release so quickly after the first version was launched.

These new updates are quite great but are they so game-changing that it is considered 2.0?

It doesn't need to be game-chaning to be considered V2. It just needs to be "the next version"

When the vaccines were first rolled out, my friends and I made a site that showed PA citizens hospitals and pharmacies near them that had covid vaccines available.

Every week, PA would release a spreadsheet of all places that received vaccines and we would call the places listed to see their availability. We ended up scaling the operation to ~200 volunteers.

There wasn't much on the technical side, though. We had an Airtable where volunteers would update records an a next.js site that displayed the date via Airtable API. We found the Airtable embed to be too complicated/ugly and even though wrangling Airtable API was a huge pain, it was worth

I've been a stubborn Wikipedia defender and donator for the past couple years, but this new fundraising banner style is the first time Wikipedia has begun to lose sympathy for me. I hope to see much less of this in the future

I love that DuckDuckGo is based in Paoli. Grew up in the area and it's crazy to think there's an innovative tech company in a sleepy Philly suburb haha. Keep up the great work!

That was a really interesting talk, thanks for sharing! Have y'all given other talks? would love to learn more about your dev/release workflow

No problem :) Only other talk so far is a very similar talk from the iOS side available here - https://youtu.be/rvfVs_29MsI?t=4578. We do intend to talk about many more things in the near future. Ill try to remember to report back here when we do.

Congrats on the launch! I've been using CodeCrafters for a year now and am a huge fan of the product. One problem I had was finding proper documentation/guidance for when I got blocked. Beyond the Discord are there any plans to unblock users?

Thank you for your kind words!

Until a few months back, we were focused solely on the "challenge" aspect of the product. Based on customer feedback, we've been making new features available that offer more guidance when you're stuck — a 2min preview is available on this demo video — https://codecrafters.io/videos/demo.

1. We show you expert-vetted code approaches for different languages in each stage, and also explain the interesting / difficult parts in the approach.

2. For further inspiration & knowledge, we now also include source walkthroughs for many of the stages, which link to how the official implementation does it. Here's one for Redis, which explains how the PING command is implemented (stage 2 of Redis). https://app.codecrafters.io/walkthroughs/redis-ping-command

A little micro-suggestion on videos: record the narration separately from actually doing the computer work. I.e., do NOT record the keyboard clacking. It's super annoying to some people. Like me. Thanks.

Thanks so much for flagging! Sorry the keyboard sounds were annoying — I almost thought that was the highlight of the video :)

Lots to improve on the videos front - thanks for the suggestion!

That look's perfect, great job!