Sounds like they got really lucky they could get it back up so quickly. They must have some very talented engineers working there.
My take aways though were they should have tested the update better. They should have their production environment more segmented with staggered updates so they have much more contained disasters. And they should have had much better catastrophic failure plans in place.
Yep, if anything, being innocent is the most important time for having a lawyer. I think not getting charged with a crime you didn't commit is more important than getting away with a crime that you did.
The problem is if X rental car company filed 100 false reports across the country, how would you ever know or track them down? Seems like a case where a corp can enjoy the protection of working across jurisdictions like a serial killer who hops counties
In some ways we have already hit the singularity. Some random ML has changed the lives of thousands of people to play tetris. Imagine the other similar situations. It's very scary to me that people live their lives inside such tightly controlled "algorithms".
Then throw on the human element how Google gets to ban certain topics from the algorithm and it just feels dystopian. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
That convention seems a little weird, but what works for different people. Normally case/break seem to light up in ides to help visually double check it has a break. Also not every language that supports fall through, supports having content inside the fall throughs. (C# I just learned recently, does not allow any code in a case that is falling through).
My problem with languages trying to too strictly control stuff like this, is that this is stuff that should be handled in your code review process. Sometimes when working with old code, it's not really worth the time spent refactoring a whole switch when you need to make a small fix, vs adding a single line.
What would make you want it to explicitly not have fall-through? I can't see any negative to including it. If it's something you disagree with can't you just opt to not use?
It's very useful in times for us who use switch regularly. I have no skin in the python game though so just curious from an outside dev haha
I worry that by picking context that have zero or close to zero racist connotations like the master branch, now you are adding racism into the world by adding racist connotations to the master branch.
So we can no longer use words that are colors inside of an idiom incase people think you are talking about race? You have to find some kind of line of reasonability. Sure, are there lots of remnants of racism/sexism rooted around our culture. But does that mean just nuke anything that has a color in it?
Heck, you aren't even thinking of the consequences of your actions suddenly turning non racist words into having racist meanings. What do you think will happen post "blacklist" "culture"? You go from 100% of the population using the word "blacklist" with literally 0 race connotations, to maybe 80-90% of the culture using ban or block list, while some 5-10% of the country either keeps saying blacklist or starts using n*ggerlist because you have now added some new racism into the language.
Want some really really recent examples? "Banning" the use of retard, now has everyone calling each other autists. Which is waaaay worse lol
As a developer almost anything you do is worth far more than what you are paid for. I agree "exposure" is never a proper payment, but I think acknowledgement from Rockstar is a bit more legit along with the 10k cash, which I bet he never imagined he would get.
I agree it's def better than nothing. But I think most end users think 2FA SMS is the equivalent of hiring an armed security guard at your door, not when it's really the equivalent of putting an ADT sign in your front lawn from amazon.
Imagine if Youtube creators started trying to get $0.01 per play. This is just a little crazy. Spotify and competitors successfully captured a LARGE number of people who were not paying anyone at all. There has already been a large increase in friction on streaming music the past few years, this will just be a nail in the coffin pushing everyone to go back to pirating.
It's something that's changing drastically every day. An indie artist is more and more able to record and upload their own song to spotify today than any time before.
There is plenty of money and it is sustainable, it's the curse of the middle man taking all of the money. If an artist uploads their own songs to spotify, there's plenty of money for the artist.
Maybe I'm just too indoctrinated by reddit at this point, but someone would really have to give me a lot of real world evidence counter to not only the examples where UBI and other programs targeted towards the poor have benefited the economy. But even just to counter the pretty basic logic that more productive members of society helps the economy, and more money in the hands of people spending money, not hoarding money, means a better economy.
Sadly I think the people who are against UBI now, really don't care about anything like that. If someone is so devoid of empathy that they don't want to provide such a basic financial safety net for people in their own country from living in homelessness/poverty, I don't think they really care about paying people who's work they've used unknowingly.
Could also be Google adopting the new political speech. This is exactly how political "journalists" "slam" politicians on the other side. It's worked well for politicians this long, maybe it will work for these large walled corps?
On the flip side, you can get very angry customers calling you and saying your broken software is preventing them from making money, or even worse, losing money. When I worked for a niche shopify like business this made for not fun emergencies. Even less fun if we made their POS not work.
How do you easily test an interviewee's "Aptitude"? Especially in a developer sense. I struggled with how to do this when asked to help with interviews in the past.
Yeah, sometimes at least basic images are incredibly helpful. First time I tried to make mac and cheese from scratch I struggled finding decent instructions on how to make the roux as I had never made or seen a roux before. Eventually I kinda figured it out after piecing together pictures from like 4-5 recipe sites.