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If I was able to use open book for every exam and had the whole thing digitized in advance with billions of notes and evaluations of the texts the questions were based on I'd probably ace it to.

It's a writing tool.

It can summarise (covert freeform text to json etc), it can expand (convert these bullet points in to content) and it can transpose (rewrite this python as java).

It's a starting prompt for fiction and a research time saver for non fiction. It's a multipurpose tool. Functionally it's also a UI if you write it as hardcoded reply formats.

Building Stripe.

Twitch was basically a 20% project at justin.tv.

Let smart people do what they want.

As a profession we work in the fastest changing industry in the history of work.

Typically once I make a contribution to the framework or the language alarm bells go off in my head and I learn the new shiny. It's the only way to survive.

It's also complete lunacy. Doctors, scientists, lawyers and engineers in other fields are life long learners, still going to conferences and publishing papers in their 70s. Software however prides itself on the young eating the old. They learn new languages and then holy war everyone else that theirs is the one truth.

And that's fine, but I know plenty of older developers who are astoundingly good and many who are garbage and the general difference is whether their company valued learning or whether it aimed to burn out their developers and replace them with younger developers. Supporting the second type of company is a strange masochism that is widely prevalent in the industry with the "Adapt or Die" mantra.

You are paying for python. You pay for any software product you use by not using an alternative.

OSS maintainers deserve respect but at a certain point they have turned their hobby in to their career, complete with clients and marketing. If you are willing to trust an open source project for your livelihood than the maintainer also has an obligation to respect that.

I'd assume ads like that in SF are aimed at developers and general tech talent. Facebook bulkheaded themselves from shifting tastes in social media by buying insta and whatsapp but they've got to be concerned at their brand being toxic for hiring. It's death by a thousand cuts.

30 years is a good time frame to judge a programming language.

This is reporting not analysis.

It's representing the views of people who have quit facebook over Cambridge Analytica and explaining why they did it.

Writing your take on the article is probably in the works and probably takes a lot more time than 2-3 days. Reporting on something is what newspapers mainly do. Analysis and opinion usually comes later and from other sources.