Divide by 2 and check for a decimal point.
I mean, it ain't wrong.
The biggest news to me is that GitHub allows users to search code. Every single time I tried to search something in GitHub, search results were next to completely useless, and always a sure-fire waste of time and effort.
There's hope, I guess.
A less confusing title would be “Mozilla drops support for Mercurial (...)
It's not even about GitHub at all. Taken straight out of the announcement:
“For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.”
Why do so many programs use rational databases instead of loading the data during startup and keeping it in memory?
I presume you're referring to relational databases instead of rational.
The responsibility of a RDBMS is to implement a set of performance-focused data structures that help clients reliably get the data that they need in the fastest possible way, without having to reinvent the wheel.
More often than not, this data does not fit in the heap.
Also, in many usecases there is more than a single client.
Hope this helps.
Objective-C and Objective-C++ are an abomination. Extending languages with other language constructs is ok, I guess, but I find Apple's extremely poor documentation to worsen a situation that's already quite bad.
your 2 decades of experience mean much more than memorizing algorithms, you know how to produce real value
That's all fine and dandy but the HR recruiter that can't tell apart git from grunt needs to cross boxes in the skills assessment section, and if you don't ace coding challenges you are as good as dead to them.
If GitHub changes terms of use to pay for basic stuff, or starts breaking compatibility or adding egregious bugs, I would start looking for alternatives.
A while ago I had all my personal projects on GitLab. I was a GitLab fanboy and advocated it everywhere to the point I convinced the project manager of a previous job to migrate the team's projects to it and pay for GitLab ultimate. Without going into details, that goodwill ended the moment I stumbled upon a regression introduced by GitLab which affected my personal projects, and their customer support essentially said the issue was won't fix but it was fixed in premium customers. I simply unblocked myself by moving all projects to GitHub, disabled GitLab CICD and shut down my GitLab runners, and onboarded onto a mix of GitHub Actions and CircleCI. I could still stick with GitLab, but why bother?
I would do the same to GitHub if I experienced anything remotely similar.
Duplicate code can be a code smell, but it's far better to have the same function definition or code block appear twice in the code than extracting a function that tightly couples two components that should not be coupled at all.
See Write Everything Twice (WET) principle.
Python is only good for short programs
Was Python designed with enterprise applications in mind?
It sounds like some developers have a Python hammer and they can only envision using that hammer to drive any kind of nail, no matter how poorly.
HTML is bad. The language itself feels unintuitive and is clunky compared to modern markdown languages, and let’s be honest, your webpage just consists of nested tags.
My websites do not consist of nested divs. Your webpages might just consist of nested divs, but only if you are clueless about what you're doing and are oblivious to basic stuff like accessibility support.
CSS is bad. Who knew styling can be so unintuitive and unmanageable? Maybe it made sense 25 years ago, but now it’s just terrible. It’s very clunkily integrated with HTML too in my opinion.
Being unmanageable is the output of the developer team, not the languages they use. Decoupling Presentation from the data and semantics never ceases to make sense. CSS has many issues but the way its integrated with HTML is certainly not one of them.
Frankly, you sound like you blame your tools a lot.
These small proof of concept projects just go to show how fundamentally important are projects such as GCC and LLVM, which considerably lowered the barrier to entry of monumental tasks such as developing a programming language that targets basically all platforms under the sun.
Kudos GCC and LLVM.
Was this thing generated by a poorly trained LLM?