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It's widely used in Cloud. Within Cloud you there is a policy to use it for all new products.

I honestly don’t know the answer, I guess this is exactly what this whole debate comes down to. In theory all the tools are there, in practice people see very mixed results.

I understand that some people prefer to work from home, but there seems to be a narrative that every single one good software engineer is in that camp, and I honestly don’t see whe…

The problem here is that if the idea of using debuggers becomes an unfashionable niche then the next language won’t provide one at all. Given how great Java/C#/JS debuggers are, on…

I am very much in the opposite camp, I am 10x more productive in tech stacks where I can use an interactive debugger. It’s not that I enjoy stepping through code line by line, I re…

It's worth pointing out that Kotlin's standard library contains a type called `Result` with a slightly different API. Also a function called `runCatching`[1] that uses it. [1] http…

This. The article and most comments here assume that getting a degree is prohibitly expensive, which is the case only in one country in the world. If you happen to live in that cou…

Firefox Beta is at 68 now and still not way to set the default zoom...

Considering the recent "Spectre is here to stay" paper [1], can anyone comment on whether Firefox should be considered secure until the work on process-per-site lands (I believe th…

Does it come with a debugger of any kind? I think this is the biggest gap in the Haskell ecosystem right now. Every time I try to write something in Haskell, I remember I cannot "t…

I, for one, agree with this kind of hiring process. From my own experience - people that do well in such interviews are good generalists. On their own they will start discussing pe…