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In my personal experience I'd say there still is a widespread mindset in our industry that all "real" web development needs to be done in Java. I'd also say that whenever someone s…

I wrote a quick Node Proof of Concept for a high-throughput data processing pipeline before the "real" team came in and rewrote it in Java. Not only did the "real" team try and gas…

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I don't know what companies you've been working for, but even if you do zero product research and development, a company as tech-focused as Uber is still going to need a substantia…

I've done coding interviews for nearly 10 years now where I present a coding problem, but I never expect syntax correctness. I'll explicitly say I don't care if the function signat…

Unless Cryptocurrency is as easy and safe to get & spend as traditional currency, "everybody uses cryptocurrency" ain't gonna happen. If someone steals from my online bank, I'm ins…

Yeah I've probably wasted 100 hours on Factorio. The other 900 hours were great though! :D

We don't know how bad this will be which is exactly why we're acting like it's going to be bad - assuming that it'll be fine is irresponsible at a time like this. And the worst par…

Good. Failing businesses should fail. That's Capitalism. And that's exactly why we need social safety nets for their employees.

Bahahaha that's about as likely as pigs flying. "You were instructed to keep the store open, but were unable to perform your job-required duties because you got arrested attempting…

| If regulatory hurdles can be cleared, he said in a Thursday interview, the vaccine could start to become available in November. So, possibly faster than some estimates, but it's …

The problem is so many software patents just cover "do a thing on a computer," which becomes so broad nobody else can ever do that thing without infringing on the patent. Even if I…

Why would the author include that when it's not in their best interests? In the disclosures they clearly state they are financially biased towards TSLA's failure. It's little more …

The application clearly states that it sends an opt-out notification anonymously after opt-out. I think they're doing better than most in terms of transparency. Is there room for i…

Like I said - if it matters to you, don't use it. I've never had a problem with people that have extremely strict views of privacy. In fact I usually think they're right. But it's …

Don't use Atom then? Seems pretty obvious if you care that much. I respect your privacy views and even share many/most of them (if not so strictly), and appreciate that you are pro…

It performs an auto-update check. You know it's just performing an auto-update check. While there's not no argument to be made here, it's not like it's secretly collecting a bunch …

I love Factorio, but this is a rather expensive offering compared to other, more mature Factorio hosts. Quick search reveals other hosts offering 50+ slots for the same price or ch…

Absolutely "They". They they they they they. English already has a perfectly good gender-neutral pronoun. I explicitly list my pronouns as "He/his or they/their" because I think th…

Key word there being "might." It could also be that the new thing is way better than the old thing. Being traditional does not make something right. After all, slavery has been aro…

People are not reacting the way they are because he has the wrong skin color; or, for that matter, any trait beyond his own direct control. He's being treated the way he is because…

I'm a primarily React-based developer, but have taken to using Svelte on side projects. Don't get me wrong, I still like React, but Svelte is phenomenally easy to get started and w…

Well I'm golly sure glad you were around to alert people of this! Renters being priced out just need to buy the multi-million dollar properties they could barely afford to rent in …

Not to mention that even assuming it works as described; it puts the onus on the user to explicitly turn it off and if they don't it may be recording.

Cute story, but I detect a certain bitterness and refusal to accept the "future" of software engineering is actually the "now." People didn't think up microservices yesterday, they…