I have experienced this but I think that's the fault of the people implementing it.

For instance, I have been in a 4-person team where the daily meeting took 30 minutes and people often rehashed discussions they had on the previous day. I have also been on a 10-person team where the meeting took 10 minutes on a bad day

I work in a massive project where they used both. Often in the same functions. Sometimes mixing 2 and 4 spaces aswell.

You might enjoy the game Shenzhen I/O, it's a programming puzzle game about developing gadgets with limited space for code

Brazil and China signed an accord 4 months ago to start using reais and yuan for trade instead of the US dollar. Two days ago Lula said his government is studying the possibility of using yuan to trade with Argentina.

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