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Right up there with other techie superstitions such as "editor x makes me a better programmer, because typing faster".

My current company actually did just that - I got to solve two AoC2020 puzzles for my code sample.

I wonder if Google as an organization cares enough to start a new spam crusade, but here's what happened the last time: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-se...

I can't believe you've forgotten!

Sure, copies are cheap, but producing the original is often not.

Unrestricted copying would discourage quite a few projects being started due to not having any chance to recoup investment.

While IP may be a flawed tool at times, it still is a useful tool.

I'm from EU, finance and IT are neck to neck for highest paid professions. Absoute pay numbers are lower than US, but under no circumstances could they be called average.

Skepticism about tech/ideas that management likes.

The ootb linter setups I've seen offer little useful checks, just everybodies feelings about your code, so personally don't find them useful. This article is a prrfect example of that, but kudos to the author for being honest about it.

Yeah, saner relative imports might be one of the few things that I envy the JS ecosystem for.

Maybe the same reason why Google keeps Firefox alive - to be able to show there is no monopoly in some category of software.

I make it a point to click "reject all" if the initial dialog only allows accepting some implicit default preferences.

Sounds like the marketing department participated in writing the docs this time.

Damn it feels good to live in the EU some days!

Yep, these arcane rules are maybe relevant to the 5 or so people writing mailservers, but not to web developers.

If there was no user inconvenience, how could you tell those responsible for security are doing their job?

Not by design, fortunately: https://bugs.python.org/issue43833

Why is it parsed like that and not as invalid integer literal "0xfor"?

edit: 'cause it's a bug! https://bugs.python.org/issue43833

Not April fools judging by github history...

Similar Philips story for me - had several pairs of SHP2000 (and HP200, which is basically an earlier model nr for the same exact headphones) over the last 20+ years. They're comfy, sound great for their price and the quality hasn't become worse over the years.

Time complexity O(R*)

I would like a backend developer perspective on the same.

I haven't done any GraphQL stuff myself, but the "I can get whatever data I need" aspect feels like a huge potential headache for backend devs. Won't be a problem at prototype scale, but once you have a significant client count, how do you deal with unpredictable data access patterns that can't be optimized ahead of time?

> When Delphi was released in 1005

Lovely typo, although it undeniably feels as if Delphi has been around forever.

Breaking things is far easier than making things. While this type of poking around might feel fun, it will mostly result in low value work to fix something very few (if any) actual users would experience.

Don't remember the source and probably misquoting, but I like this truism: there's software that people complain about and software that nobody is using.

> So you need to understand how it is different. And you need to be disciplined about quoting

Or I can use a sane language that let's me get my stuff done faster and with less opportunities to shoot myself in the foot.

Google once (falsely?) considered my Revolut debit card a pre-paid card and refused to accept it for GCS billing. The error message wasn't anything generic either - it stated specifically that pre-paid cards are not accepted.

The article mentions they have around 2000 engineers, at that scale investing in custom tooling can easily become a significant net gain in productivity and stability, especially when dealing with the JS ecosystem.

Pretty sure sending only legitimely useful emails to customers will not get any vendor blacklisted.

I first try to find an unsubscribe link, but if there is none or it's broken, then into the spam filter the message goes.

Remember any corporate rebranding where the press went "hey, this is pretty good actually"? Me neither. My guess is that people just hate change and will rationalize why old>new.