daviddoran

I used to love Java mostly for its batteries-included well designed standard library. Despite the verbosity of the language itself. But over time the language has really evolved a lot and gotten a lot more pleasing to the eye (in my opinion).

PHP has always escaped forward slashes to help prevent malicious JSON from injecting tags into JavaScript I believe. Because it was common for PHP users to json_encode some data and then to write it out into the HTML in a script tag. A malicious actor could include a closing script tag, and then could inject their own HTML tags and scripts etc.

Same — it’s absolutely other-worldly. Like being in an alien spaceship. Truly breathtaking. One of my favourite places in the world.

I agree with a lot of the comments that (1) giving heartfelt thanks (which you can do more than once over the years) and (2) being there to help them if they ever need it and (3) paying it forward is the best you can do.

You could throw money at it or try to make big gestures but to the people that helped you just knowing how much it meant to you is the best reward.

Like other commenters I used Game Maker 20 or so years ago and not only made games but also programmed little utilities to solve problems at my Dad’s work. It was a phenomenal blank canvas for creating games and programs and learning to program (because there’s both Scratch-style drag and drop programming, and a programming language).

A family member works in banking phone support and the scams people get caught by are unbelievable. Every week people are convinced by scammers to give their bank cards to a taxi that arrives at their house (supposedly sent by the bank), they transfer 1,000s of euro to foreign bank accounts (supposedly at the request of the bank to safeguard the funds), they lie to the bank (somehow convinced by the scammers), etc.

Bought and played this as a "non-Computer-Science" developer and really enjoyed it and learned from it. It helped with understanding intuitively some concepts that I hadn't deeply understood.

I found it a little buggy or unpolished in places (like the scrolling/zooming behavior or how hint videos are only sometimes available) but that's a pretty minor complaint.

No. Half way through the article she specifically starts doing everything on the B+ (the old RPI with the issue).

Same! I created numerous games with early GameMaker as a pre-teen. I even managed to use it for making various useful little programs, like an interactive calculator to show my Dad’s company that the bandwidth required for multiple security cameras would eat up all the bandwidth available on the relatively slow internet connections. It definitely had an enormous positive effect on my career in software.

Yes, business and first class commonly have power-operated seat adjustments (recline, lay flat, extend foot rest).

Interviewers not showing up seems really weird and surprising. At that point the hard work of scheduling etc. is done.

Even then, whenever you’re dealing with large amounts there’s risk. E.g., early on in Bitcoin’s development a user lost a lot of Bitcoin by making a small test transfer, not realising that the change (their remaining balance) was sent to a new address in their wallet. But they were running a bootable Linux Distro from a CD and didn’t save the wallet back to a USB or other permanent storage. So they’ll never have access to those keys.

Tuple’s audio quality really is good enough to feel noticeably different to Zoom or other VC. Much more like your pairing partner is in the room talking into your ear.