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Your Web browser is probably the best example. When you visit a Web site, your browser discovers resources and understands how it can interact with them.

Would that make this the Japanese Sword Fallacy Fallacy?

Neat idea. Is there a color legend somewhere? I don’t see one.

>Buffer also comes with additional caveats. For instance, Buffer#slice() creates a mutable segment linked to the original Buffer, while Uint8Array#slice() creates an immutable copy, resulting in possible unpredictable behavior. The problem is not the behavior of the Buffer#slice() method, but the fact that Buffer is a subclass of Uint8Array, but changes the behavior of an inherited method.

But this is an implementation detail, not specified behavior. Changing method behavior in subclasses is a key aspect of inheritance.

The article mentions this in the Disallowed Names section.

Being tall gives you an obvious advantage at basketball. As a result many tall people are drawn to pursuing a career in basketball. Could it be that ADHD gives you an advantage at the kind of tasks involved in software engineering, and that many people with ADHD are naturally drawn to this kind of work, even though the advantage is not so obvious as a physical characteristic like height?

I had to read way too much of this before realizing that SE means software engineering.

I believe this was added in the 20th anniversary edition to address the overuse of DRY following the original edition.

The author says not to use a wireless headset. And what’s the difference in time to join a meeting between a high quality mirrorless or DSLR camera and a cheap webcam after the initial setup?

Not really. Databases predate SQL.