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That's fair, though I will say Kotlin's type system having nullability built-in is something I doubt Java will ever fully add (instead of the annotations it currently uses). So in …

(not a frontend dev, so excuse any ignorance) I agree CoffeeScript usage has gone down dramatically, but has Typescript not usurped it? It doesn't seem like everyone just went back…

As soon as I opened the page, I searched for "null" and saw it didn't show up in the original post. Leaving that out is almost a bad faith argument, because it is the number 1 Kotl…

I'm not sure what it's taking about for the "with" feature: https://nipafx.dev/java-record-semantics/#with-blocks In Kotlin data classes, it's already implemented (just called copy…

We're already using the new IR compiler on 1.4, but I'll check out 1.5!

11,503 files, 1,431,195 lines of code. (spread out over I think the main problem is that Gradle doesn't have the same support as Java for ABI compatible changes, so invalidation of…

I used Kotlin in a large codebase, and one of my only complaints is the compile times. We use Gradle for our build system, and relative to Java it is slooowwww. But we like the oth…

Are there other companies where a CX Specialist makes the same as an engineer? Usually I see Engineering offset from CX, so an entry level CX employee might come in at Level 1, whi…

I generally subscribe to PG's definition of a startup, which is a company designed to grow fast: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

Unfortunately we heavily shard our tests, running on a single laptop would take a while.

Unfortunately right when we were trying to deploy a hot-fix to production, our CI can't clone the PR to run tests. What do other folks use to avoid this situation? Have a Gitlab in…

If I understand correctly, the .so TLD is effectively a national resource of Somalia, and as such they have total control over it and could in fact shut it down if they wanted.

> It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion. Serious question, if this is an extended legal di…

Hi HN I'm in the fortunate position of having a large amount of money (on paper) in startup options, and in the unfortunate position of not being able to afford the tax. It seems t…

+1, though sadly Ontario has cut their tax credit so it's just Federal for us now.

This question gets more complicated in places like Ontario, Canada, where the term "engineer" is actually protected. To call yourself an engineer in a professional setting, you hav…

I think the "overcompensating" can also happen when you hire, doesn't have to be an existing employee. Invariably other employees will find out what new hires make, and if you don'…

That doesn't mean much unless the employees have liquidity right? Presumably after the acquisition the employees would've been able to convert their options to cold hard cash.

Yeah definitely, but Amazon can always say "Go host on GCP". Then Google Cloud can say "Go host on Azure". Then Microsoft says "Go host on Digital Ocean", and repeat until you run …

Yeah it's certainly a slippery slope, 100% agree. In your example it's probably slightly different because religion is a protected class, while political leanings aren't. I think w…

Serious question, it seems AWS is by no means a monopoly on web hosting (Google, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode, the list goes on). It seems to be they're well within their rights as…

"Worse, you'll quite possibly end up firing them when you eventually start reigning them in and they don't like being told how to build things." Had this exact thing happen at my c…

Very similar experience, especially around people abusing extension functions and opting for clever one-liners. We had to really push back on that during code reviews, but even the…

Interesting, are you able to share more? Or if you know where I might be able to read more about this?