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Lots of bold, unsubstantiated claims. I think every time there is a big peak, or a big valley, some percentage of people are always peddling "but this is different"

My understanding is that Gates and Epstein were more or less just acquaintances, but it seems you think otherwise. What am I missing?

I'll never understand this sentiment. You don't have to have alerts from slack outside of business hours. Or respond in general. If I responded or looked at my messages every time I got one, I'd never get work done... so I simply ignore them until I am taking a break or otherwise at a good stopping point. It's not that hard.

Just wanted to say this is completely inconsistent with almost all people I know who work/have worked at Amazon as developers

This seems like there isn't buy-in to the OKRs across your employer. My company does OKRs and it's taken seriously by VPs as well as the devs. Here, it's very reasonable to say no to something (and have that be respected) because it's not contributing to your team's OKRs. If it's a VP or something and insists it needs to be done then that means the OKRs need to be updated to reflect the nature of this work.

A couple of big reasons don't like message buses (but open to hearing about why I'm wrong):

-All "requests" will succeed even if malformed

-Couples producers/consumers to the bus (unless you put in the extra work to wrap it in a very simple service)

I think I agree with you - I'm just trying to understand the other perspective from someone that seems to think not having exceptions is an improvement. I've mostly worked using java and go and to be honest I think I prefer exceptions because you should (almost) always check error codes in go anyway, and if you forget, you just made debugging much more difficult.

Aren't you supposed to check all the possible errors in golang anyway? How's that any different than java code being littered with error handling code?

> Why is REST so popular?

You think this guy is a hateful hipster, but most of what he says probably resonates with most software vets. To me, it's mostly against the REST zealots who demand REST is done in a very particular manner. I've seen companies with a very stable, robust RPC framework that had a small faction of REST zealots who were extremely against it because it didn't do things according to REST. It didn't matter to them how stable it was or how well it worked.

Also, REST is relatively not popular - what percentage of the world's APIs use REST do you think?

TBH, you're the one coming off like the hateful hipster to me.

To counter anecdote with anecdote, I've had no issues with coinbase and have found them pleasant to use. That includes transferring to gdax/selling/withdrawing, etc.

This is simply false.

Neither go nor chess are solved

Why the downvote? The world is rife with people making claims like this but not putting their money where their mouth is...