Drbble

Yes :-(

Passing the torch to the next generation of tourist cum expert. You can't expect these folks to stick with their avocatiom more than a few months before quitting.

This has changed a lot for the better in recent years.

Also, a lot of geniuses are socially inept. I doubt you said everything right in your interview either. It helps to smile and keep going when one person in ten shows a flaw.

Why would you ever work somewhere where employees were not considered part of the company?

Inheritance is explicitly discouraged in style guides, except for specific cases of extensible framework classes with a vendor / customer split.

Now look at the Java Generics FAQ.

The way we treat agreements after death affects how much trust the living place in each other.

Completely rewriting things is one of the worst decisions an intermediate engineer makes. That's what killed Netscape.

Applying learning to a new project, now that is something different.

"smell" is ill-defined!

The point is that with less significance you are less confidential what your conversion rate "would have been" under other courses of action. You can't say "this or that test has higher conversion" because of some simulation that has totally different structure than your real website.

Statistical about managing unknowns, not creating knowns, and everyone ignores this!

It's the old normal. See also the famous article about how most medical research is mathematically wrong.

Same way every product from GWO and T&T on down: show a pretty graph that ignores the underlying assumption that it's even possible to use statistics to conjure certainty from uncertainty, and trust that users will never know or care about the difference.

/former AB test software dev who fought my users to try to stop them from misinterpretation results, and failed.

AirBnB attacked Craigslist users, not the website itself. AirBnB didn't post a copy of CP online. The spammed users could have tried to bring action against AirBnB under CAN-SPAM.