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Looks like the pretty formatting is poplular. All the people that complain of Python layout should be jealous of this one: https://www.ioccc.org/2020/yang/prog.c

What have they got to lose?

30% cut of app store, icloud, apple+ TV, Safari users, Maps users, Incremental Market Share.

Realistically lots of people could end up preferring Linux over MacOS, why risk it?

I learned to program in middle school and I loved it, you couldn't tear me away from the school Commodore Pet.

My kid we played with scratch for a bit and she had fun making some games but it fizzled out after a few weeks. No real love. I gave up. Maybe I'll try again in a few years.

There are coding classes and they're all very popular but to me it seems pushy parents signing up their children, none of them seem to enjoy it.

Its pretty sad at the end of the page it talks about other resources, the first few are 2008 ish. I'd expect them to be obsolete, but is that just become the industry standard now? FAANG SD interviews are such a mystery and the we never comment response doesn't help.

I like coffee though for the flavor, the caffeine is not the point. I'd like decaf but never found any I like and the decaf process looks pretty sketchy with lots of chemicals.

There have been rumors about the 'Sun Valley' gui refresh for months. This is from October https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-sun-valley-ui-octo.... Its not exactly a surprised either, Windows 10 was released in 2016(?).

Terrorist acts are only part of it though. Sure 9/11 was cheap but implementing punitive sanctions across countries hundreds officials requires an awful lot of tracking and monitoring.

As regulators catch up you can expect same forms and reporting for any crypto account as a regular account. If you ignore the rules expect big penalties until you comply- just like how banks have been paying billions in fines and are now tarpits of paperwork.

> Cryptocurrencies is the future

No they aren't. especially when:

> Our old-fashioned bank system is far from perfect but it is harder to do illegal things unnoticed, banks report thousands of cases to authorities every year.

The website is a bunch of affiliate links, I'm not convinced this is a loss to the world. https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/

Do we even really know it was Russia? Everything I've seen so far seems to assume that rather than have a confirmed link.

edit: source seems to be Washington Post article "according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity"

https://web.archive.org/web/20201213220635if_/https://www.wa...

It has been a very good strategy so far. Stock is up 3x in a few months. Hopefully MicroStrategy can spin off the software part of the business and just buy bitcoin.

From the definition of unions there isn't much overlap. Yes they want to protect Google Workers from harassment which is valuable but doesn't sound like they're fighting for improving wages, benefits, or working conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_Sta...

Yeah that doesn't look like any union I've ever seen.

Has anyone seen a big - multi year system done in FP? Lots of people love FP, it seems great for your own side project, but I'm not convinced it works in those typical big corporate systems where devs turn over every few years as the code base grows.

I thought Jira was slow then our team started using Service Now. Holy that is junk.

Agreed C# and Java are virtually identical. However the cultuer is completely different. The plethora of libraries to me ends up being a handicap. We have had a bunch of different Java developers on our project and each one does things differently so we end up with a huge mess. I didn't see such problems in C# world where maybe we just had better devs that concentrated on clean models instead of incorporating fashionable libraries and other moving parts.

I worked on a big distributed system with C# and windows servers. Was rock solid I miss it so much. I'm not drowning in Java/Spring/Linux app its such a horrible mess, security is the worst nightmare but even stuff like NFS is regularly breaks. Windows was great.

Its Jira combined with outsourced or contract developers that only care about getting that feature added. Our app is a mess, loaded with technical debt and hugely difficult to support and use. 90% of devs dont care, they do add their one piece of new functionality and move on to the next one or next project.

BTC is so pointless to me. The problem is it keeps going up. It looks like its more likely to hit $100,000 before $0, so you can still make a lot of money by buying now. Which is why I bought some.

Yes I use Excel DNA, it just doesn't have the same flexibility that I can email anyone a spreadsheet file containing both code and data.

I do a lot of both. Excel really is great for data where there are less than say 100k rows. Its just so easy to see exactly what you're doing and what the data looks like. If you have millions of records Python really does better but I still find it frustrating to find a way to keep peeking behind the curtain.

Ideally I'd have a type safe language which can embed data the way excel does. If Excel had dotnet languages instead of VBA and could store data arrays in XLBs it'd slay.

> much, much better alternatives already available

Such as? Wind/Solar/Hydro/Batteries all have their weak points.

> is likely equally as bad as atmospheric CO2 increase for the health of the earth.

I'd disagree

> biogas is at best carbon neutral/slightly positive

Of course that's the point - much better than oil/gas/coal. Yes ideally we'd like energy with no downside. Burning renewables is a great compliment to solar/wind.

If you close you steelworks and factories then import all your goods from China your emissions do go down.

I realize shipping woodchips across the Atlantic isn't eco friendly, but how is burning wood and straw greenwashing?

> Same kind of person who never finds a partner because of the "ceremony around" dating, I guess?

Surely its the person who gets married and doesn't have to deal with that any more. Its a good reason to stay in a company a long time, like the OP says.

How many interviews do people do a year? I've been in my job 5 years and the one before that 8, I've had 4 interviews in the last 10 years. I kinda feel at a big advantage for not job hopping. It seems some people interview a dozen times a year just as normal.

Should I try to get 10 interviews just for practice before interviewing companies I really like?

> If they are too high I'm usually upfront that at that rate they'd be flat compensation wise for a number of years

I think its good to communicate that they wont be getting raises. I've taken a few jobs where I've been paid well above average, it feels great then you dont get any pay rises for a few years which makes you feel like you're aren't doing a good job.

> "I want this stock right now, you can decide what the price is"

No this is too pessimistic, there are best execution rules which say the broker must get the best price possible. It can trade off exchange with a hedge fund, in a dark pool or internally with another customer, but the price must be better than that of the exchange bid/ask.

They dont have buildings there? or no trees?