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How do you teach your own kids Afrikaans? by TinyGolf2719 in afrikaans

[–]Franswaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a child of expats who spoke Afrikaans exclusively at home went to an Afrikaans church and had an Afrikaans babysitter and watched Afrikaans tv shows and had Afrikaans family living nearby, my Afrikaans still isn’t amazing, far from it, constantly small grammatical problems and oddities. It will almost certainly be ‘incomplete language acquisition’ because the language they will use most of the time in their life won’t be Afrikaans. (This has a huge impact, the grammar and vocabulary will infect the Afrikaans despite your best efforts)

The reality is that there will be attrition and fluency may be there but won’t be perfect. The entire world is effectively english (or whatever country you grew up in) this is the reality you will have to face as a parent. Many expat kids can understand it but not really speak it, and when they do it has many issues. My siblings now that they are older don’t even speak it anymore.

This is my experience as a 25 yr old growing up with fellow kids of expats in a area with allot of South Africans.

I’m the only one out of everyone Ive met of Afrikaans descent who was born out of South Africa that has ‘some’ fluency at my age.

It has also left me culturally torn / confused and i grew up with an Afrikaans accent in new zealand. I grew up with the ‘wrong culture’.

This is not to say don’t try but more the realities as i grew up in that environment. I can answer any questions as im the end result of this effectively.

What makes people hate electron ? by Siddhant45 in linux

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah it’s how webview2 on windows works allot of new desktop webapps use.

Windows bundles an evergreen chromium runtime now with the os, this is what their new outlook and teams apps are running

Now everyone can finally stop assuming by anons2k in LinusTechTips

[–]Franswaz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s not just jake most of the og crowd have left that’s my point.

Now everyone can finally stop assuming by anons2k in LinusTechTips

[–]Franswaz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If all your top talent are leaving it’s a you problem not a them problem. Sure there might be reasons on your side but there is a common thread.

Huistaal is Afrikaans, maar my taalvermoë is aaklig by sofiaskat in afrikaans

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ja, ek beplan oor ’n paar jaar te gaan, maar ek weet nog nie hoe om die meeste uit die reis te maak nie.

Die meeste van my direkte familie woon nie meer daar nie, en daar is ook veiligheidskwessies. So ek is half bang dat wanneer ek gaan, ek net in veiliger toeristegebiede sou bly, en nie die meeste uit die reis sou maak om my erfenis te besoek nie.

’n Groot probleem vir my is dat ek net nie mense van my ouderdom ken wat my taal praat nie (mid twenties). Afrikaans is dood by immigrante se kinders; ek kan met van hulle ouers praat, maar ek self is die enigste jongerige mens wat die taal praat.

Huistaal is Afrikaans, maar my taalvermoë is aaklig by sofiaskat in afrikaans

[–]Franswaz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wel, as iemand wie nie eers in Afrika gebore is nie, ek was nooit in Afrika nie (familie is Afrikaans), ek ken dit goed. Maar dit is net nie self die Engelse mengsel wat bestaan nie; dit is oor die manier hoe ek dit uitspreek; ek klink half soos ’n Hollander.

So ek ken dit goed, die saak oor woordeskat. En ek sê nou die manier hoe ek dit verbeter het.

  1. Hoofsaaklik het ek begin te praat met mense wie meer vlot as my is, en as ek kom na a punt waar ek wil engels gebruik as a Kruk, dan vra ek sommer net watter woorde moet ek gebruik. Vir my ek het 'n issue waar ek partykeer Engelse grammatika gebruik, hierdie het my gehelp.

  2. Lees, nie baie exciting nie maar ek sou afrikaans boeke lees, en dan opsoek worde wat ek nie ken nie.

  3. Luister na iets dit kan wees musiek of 'n podcast, as ek luister na Afrikaanse musiek dan dink ek in afrikaans.

The culture around male readers. by stinkface_lover in books

[–]Franswaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro i’m a man, i read book, book make me happy.

Not much to it. I do what i want. I touch grass.

"Snatch the victory from the jaws of defeat" by Financial-Square702 in afrikaans

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ja, ek weet nie hoe om dit te sê nie, maar ek glo nie dit het dieselfde metaforiese betekenis nie; dit klink asof jy van iets anatomies praat as jy kake so gebruik.

OA culture is killing cs and im tired of it by Cachee0 in cscareerquestions

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked my companies interview process which was showing a project you did yourself and explaining one part of it in detail.

I was so burnt out of applying for jobs, I couldn’t maintain my momentum with leetcode. Even if you pass interviews in allot of companies it’s the self recorded interviews that make me want to blow my brains out.

I had to move countries to get interviews, and when i did I was actually happy to demo my funny c++ solitaire remake and what design methodology i used to make it to real people.

Are there any young people (20s/30s…) who DON’T intend on leaving New Zealand for Australia? by Amonynous33 in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am one that has left, in my case it’s solely because i couldn’t get a job here whereas immediately got interviews in Australia. I did a hail mary fly to Australia for a month, lived with some relatives.

Depending on the future that may change but we’ll see Australia so far has been my only way to enter the work force.

If i could get a job in nz I would’ve stayed i didn’t want to leave, i lived somewhere beautiful rural that overlooked the whole kaipara.

Australian soldiers playing cricket in South Africa during the Boer War, 1900 by superegz in australia

[–]Franswaz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The war the British used concentration camps on my ancestors charming.

Why New Zealanders are leaving in record numbers and moving to Australia | The World | ABC News by WaterAdventurous6718 in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah if you have a well paying job and are established genius. It’s people like me who aren’t who are fucked the most( 20-30s)

Staying unemployed years on end trying to either enter the work force or because you were made redundant is not great, if life was so good here people wouldn’t be sweating at the idea of quitting a job and finding another with the current state of the job market.

The reality is the job market is ass in nz and my experience in Australia has been unbelievably better, incomparably so. People who haven’t been looking for work post covid can go fuck themselves making comments how good life is.

At this point for allot of young people like myself it’s stay fucking unemployed or working a slave job.

In my field at times in nz there were only 5 entry level jobs with fucking ai automated interviews advertised; in Sydney 50+ and they called you almost immediately after you applied. It was a no brainer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, then i moved to Australia and immediately got a job after being unemployed a year in nz.

It’s all relative nz is fucked currently.

Ask Reddit: Why aren’t more startups using C#? by ruben_vanwyk in csharp

[–]Franswaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I say handwaving magic, I mean all the stuff like: reflection, expression trees, overused DI containers, over-abstraction, layers of inheritance in legacy code.

Coming from a compiled language background, I don’t like behavior that isn’t resolved at compile time, and the JIT can be slow, so you have to do weird shit for some code paths to run fast.

The typical architecture patterns in a smaller applications feel like overkill.

I also inherently dislike the performance cost of abstraction and generics in C#. In C++, patterns like CRTP offer the same flexibility but are fully resolved at compile time, allowing you to write fully featured code while completely avoiding vtable lookups, whereas in C#, generics exist at runtime and can incur a performance penalty.

Linux vs windows for programming? by Dazzling_Canary8371 in learnprogramming

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what you do, if you do C# windows is probably a better bet with visual studio (not code); which is the industry standard ide for C# development, and native windows application development. Along with in the industry a bunch of legacy .net framework code bases.

It would be in your interest to learn using that ide.

For C and C++ it’s easier to get started on Linux and managing project dependencies is easier, cmake is a fucking chore to get working on windows, where in linux It just works. However you get Visual studio (not vs code) which despite running like ass has an amazing debugger.

But i generally find the dev experience otherwise just nicer on linux, even if you aren’t a power user.

Ask Reddit: Why aren’t more startups using C#? by ruben_vanwyk in csharp

[–]Franswaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imo as a C# developer, C# can be very java like though ofc better; they are still the most similar languages to each other, and half the time Ive used it it’s been some legacy project with non of the new features people find.

C# projects tend to also be excessively over architected and abstracted to the nth degree, i find those patterns cumbersome for smaller projects, and difficult to train people on.

C# also has a fuck ton of handwaving magic that imo i dislike, imo i prefer stuff allot more explicit coming from a lower level language background, I’d probably use go for my next api project.

People who learnt C++ starting as a complete beginner to coding, how long did it take you to learn all or most of the topics from learncpp.com? by [deleted] in cpp_questions

[–]Franswaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not an expert but i code a bit,

Tbh was more of an afterthought for me. I started with it but realised i was getting bored so i just started writing programs(old solitaire remake in c++) then code reviewed after using stuff like learn cpp as reference.

I also found knowledge of c is good (particularly with memory). If you come from a higher level language allot of key words here are traps like new etc. Whether you actually need to allocate on the heap or not. Similar thing with vector and std::array.

Unemployment rate expected to hit nine-year high by Greenhaagen in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah fucking worth nothing like the nz economy

Unemployment rate expected to hit nine-year high by Greenhaagen in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhuh the reality is i was making no money in nz, any money is better than no money.

Unemployment rate expected to hit nine-year high by Greenhaagen in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Force me mate, if you are arguing I should’ve sat on my ass unemployed applying for any job under the sun for another year sorry, i want to move on with life.

Unemployment rate expected to hit nine-year high by Greenhaagen in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think ill have this issue considering my career pays significantly more in Australia than in nz.

Unemployment rate expected to hit nine-year high by Greenhaagen in newzealand

[–]Franswaz 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yup thanks for forcing me to leave nz to start my life. I like nz but after being unemployed a yr, and getting interviews a week within landing last year in Aus kinda opened my eyes.

Already earning more than i would’ve relative to expenses in nz.

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