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Sounds like in that case you were a victim of fraud rather than avoiding your contractual obligations?

Conversely, engineers can be "registered" and relegated to other adjacent roles because their credentials have been eclipsed by their lack of meaningful experience, and their ideas are no better than the smart programmers in the room. So I do understand the haphazardness to a degree, anyone can engineer, but not everyone can be an engineer.

> Most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist

I encounter this so often. It must be hard for some people to question a given design or requirement. Sometimes when someone asks for a solution to a problem, they don't actually want what they asked for they just want a solution to the problem.

Firstly, Apples's creative selection sounds like a nightmare.

This would put so much selective pressure on anyone lower on the totem pole compared to their superiors, it is sure to cast aside good talent for making the slightest mistake, but Apple makes good stuff so what do I know.

Secondly, I was a bit frustrated with the conclusion of the article.

> What can you do to acquire better product judgment? How might you recognise when someone has it? How might you develop taste?

I think this read needs a bit of stewing on those very questions, otherwise it's quite discouraging indeed. If you can't even define what good taste is, this advice kind of breaks down a bit for the average person.

Audacity is great for minor tweaks and such, but I can't imagine in a million years paying a subscription for it

Totally. The article definitely caught my attention for that reason. The difference between those two scenarios is an order of magnitude.

> If you’re streaming a response, you start with an HTTP 200 code... but then what happens if an error occurs half

Maybe a 202 Accepted code makes more sense

I think it's much more likely that it just takes timeand money to develop how the deletion process works, testing the implementation etc. It's easier to just not have the capability since it's not critical to the majority of users.

If the universe is infinite, Then the observable universe is only as finite as the length of your life and capability to traverse through space.

Last time I used it was to test that my companies app could be downloaded from it. Well it wouldn't let me sign in using my existing outlook account apparently because we use our company domain name. So I had to create a completely separate microsoft domain account. Pretty annoying.

174 is a pretty small sample size. This was several years ago, anyone know if there was any follow up?

I've only just got a new Mac after having my last one for nearly a decade. I've had to replace two windows machines in that same time period. Not exactly cold hard data, but a sample size of 1.

There are also windows machines that make it hard to replace things mind you.

I've also encountered that, it's very frustrating when you get a 200 ok, then you continue on in your client but there was actually an error expressed in the body of the 200 response. Ah gee.

Yeah that's understandable when frameworks default everything to 500, that's often true, I just couldn't think of a more appropriate code to the specific example apparently there actually is a code for fraudulent payments so 402 code would be good.

I'm not sure anyone would propose you randomly map different 4xx codes to a bunch of different internal server errors. For the one example you provided I would probably use a 500 code, return the relevant message and call it a day. In that case you might also return an additional code if you have some extremely complex logic for handling that error at the client side, but in that case your client might be a little too complicated.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't also use the best practices codes for authentication vs authorization etc. I say this loosely though because best practices are really just that. It's more important to maintain a level of consistency within your team or organization so you're all speaking the same language. It's nice to have a starting point like rest APIs (or something that resembles them) so you're not writing a completely new rulebook on standard stuff that other people have already figured out, you can focus more on the problems your team is trying to solve. Why not use a 409 when there's a conflict? Someone already solved that problem. You can still return whatever pretty error message you want.

Let me get this straight, you don't think codes matter, but you want to manage a giant proptietary list of codes?

Won't you just send up in those huge discussions you waste so much time on?

I'm sure this is a problem in companies large enough to have a sizable HR department, but don't most of us work with a bunch of cretin engineers that always think everything anyone else does is wrong and a sales team that is never satisfied with the thing they asked for?

Gauging demand can sometimes be useful in planning a project can it not? I mean, if the comments are phrased nicer than your example.

I bought a cheap Toshiba that only has a built in chrome cast that you can ignore. It's a good option.

They forgot to put music on that board

I'm starting to think that the concept of "files" is starting to be a very advanced concept for some people these days.

You can right click to open in a specific container. Take a bit of forethought though.

A large amount of my recommended YouTube videos are educational, but I subscribe to a lot of nature docs, history etc, I don't think the algorithm dislikes this kind of content for me. So I guess the answer to your question is, we can?

This movie hasn't been out long, you sure your friends won't be up to their old ways in a month or two?

A single person generally has orders of magnitude less power to influence than the the biggest companies in the world. That's surely not a fair comparison.

I would say both of those things are pretty abstract.

Stores pay a hefty sum of rent to the mall, not sure thats a reasonable comparison.

I find I am not missing anything in terms of features or stability since the quantum engine except perhaps bookmark management being a bit clunky.

If you truly prefer chrome why not use a chromium browser that is not Google? (Brave for example)

> One fun bit of trivia about Bigtable is that they had these internal control-plane entities (as part of the implementation) called tablet servers, which had large indexes, and at some point they became a scaling bottleneck.

Anyone understand the technical jargon here? I'm a bit lost.

I can only guess they mean if they pivot to be less privacy focused.