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Some monitors just have bad backlight. I had old one where maximizing terminal(which is mostly black) window caused taskbar and window handle also to turn almost black.

Imgur had DEFINITELY gotten WAY worse than even a year or so ago

There is vicious cycle with all image hosting services and Imgur(and Photobucket) has reached the last step:

1. Notice all other services are filled with ads and full of bloat

2. Create new, free and very simple image uploading site

3. Site gains popularity

4. Operating costs go through the roof

5. Try to monetize by adding ads or move to paid accounts

6. goto 1

My job is not to balance an arbitrary math equation that x% of engineers are supposed to be women

It really sound like Goodhart's law. It no longer matters that corporations wanted to remove bias from hiring process and access mostly untapped pool of talents. Now it is important how well they are doing it, measured by single % value.

As a counter counter anecdote, scientists where estimating that perfecting automatic text translation will take another 10-15 years... in ~1960. I guess hoping that future technology will solve all out problems is similar to expecting next generation to pay our debts.

Yeah, worst example ever. They should make it harder to make inner anonymous classes, not easier. When such code is used inside JEE/CDI/Spring Beans it leads to some annoying leaks or issues with serialization.

How I Write Tests 10 years ago

There is an even better way to test your tests - the mutation testing, for example http://pitest.org/. It also helps to find dead code, that doesn't have any impact on result any more.

Java has also alternative approach:

    final a;
    if (predicate) {
     a = 3;
    } else {
     a = 5;
    }
`final` makes it possible for variable to be assigned exactly once. Verbose but useful when "?:" is not a good fit.

I am sure this is exactly what is happening. It is just hard to find out and believe that something is wrong with your own memory. It is about the same as using infected OS to run AntiVirus scan. Maybe it is a coping mechanism? I would prefer to hope it was a prophetic dream than that I can't trust my memory as Déjà Vu/random brain hiccup can rewrite it without leaving any trace.

It's embarrassing, frankly.

It is the same company that has different character encoding for different language versions of its site (.de, .jp) and none of them is Unicode.

It would be like an individual trying to keep their password secret from another part of their body.

Trying to recall a password that I commited only to muscle memory is damn near impossible without some kind of keyboard in front of me.