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I work on a payment system that invoices consumers on behalf of other companies and pays out the money to these companies by splitting the payout on multiple partners (luckily I do…

Interesting approach. I have some coleagues that actually remote desktops to their powerful desktop computer. I never did that because I fear all the tiny issues I have to deal wit…

I think it is quite common. I develop financial systems, and I compile apps regularly for running tests locally and large parts of the system is running locally using docker compos…

I might have misunderstood the scope of the idempotency layer, I thought it was this thin layer close to the web server that just replays the last answer from the services that are…

> Practically though, it doesn't happen very often It probably happens much more often than you think if you say this as someone with an insider perspective. I have had to integrat…

I can absolutely see that there are many cases where the code is not run many times or the dataset is dirty and that types actually get in the way. As a example, I cannot stand usi…

That makes a lot of sense. And I think the lack of teaching technique has to do with the broad variety of programming tasks. Techiques are way too specific to the domain and we won…

Very true, but there is a gradient there. I have an example of the opposite extreme. A few years ago I worked with a person who would rather continue working in php 5.3 than start …

That makes perfect sense actually, thank you for taking the time to answer. And I’m indeed a SW eng with a degree, so spot on. I do something similar to data analysis «for fun»/non…

Great! I am so glad more people see types as a useful tool. Personally I see it as essential, so I struggle to understand the mind set of people who do not want to use them. I unde…