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It literally doesn’t matter unless it impacts users. I don’t know why you would waste time on non problems.

You gauge with metrics and profiles, if necessary, and address as needed. You don’t scrutinize every line of code over whether it’s “reasonable” in advance instead of doing things …

Sorry, you’re not allowed to discourage premature optimization or defend Python here.

Then you should have written that. Instead you have given more fodder for the premature optimization crowd.

Good callout on the paper reference, but this author gives gives every indication that he’s dead serious in the first paragraph. I don’t think commenters are confused.

Knowing that an empty string is 41 bytes or how many ns it takes to do arithmetic operations is not general knowledge.

Sometimes it’s as simple as finding the hotspot with a profiler and making a simple change to an algorithm or data structure, just like you would do in any language. The amount of …

Every Python programmer should be thinking about far more important things than low level performance minutiae. Great reference but practically irrelevant except in rare cases wher…

It doesn’t. You’re welcome to do your own research to confirm

“We didn’t have the expertise to build the thing we were building, got in way over our heads, and built a basic POC using legacy technology, which is fine.”

On a trumpet? A clarinet? No, the motions don't simultaneously overlap. The fingering mechanics are slightly different at speed, but you would still start slow while using the high…

Depends on the instrument. For wind instruments, the motions basically don’t change, and your focus is on synchronizing your mouth with your hands. Tonguing technique is different …

What’s wrong with Matter?

"[Y]ou're welcome to fork Chromium or Firefox" is the software developer equivalent of saying "you're welcome to go fuck yourself."

It's true that there are security issues, but it's also true that they don't want to put any resources into making their XSLT implementation secure. There is strong unstated subtex…

The lead dev driving the Chrome deprecation built a wasm polyfill https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill . Multiple people proposed in the Github discussions leading up to this t…

This is staff, principal, or even EM scope at many orgs. I have never seen anyone with a senior dev title directly managing juniors.

Maybe you were just bad at management and didn’t know it.

You were supporting the tail end of an era that is universally agreed upon as an ecosystem failure. The internet didn't provide a consistent user experience for developers or for u…

Ideally, sure, but that would increase the already enormous burden of building a standards compliant web browser. For a healthy web ecosystem it's important that not only trillion …

I think the main reason you see overwhelming support for anchors is that the existing Actions functionality is typically so cumbersome to implement and often makes it harder to und…

YAML anchors may be a sharp tool but no one is forced to use them. I have written many verbose Github workflows that would have benefited from using anchors, and I am relieved to l…

Our vet told us it is far more important that house cats get exercise than any potential frustration caused by a laser pointer.