> After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be.
As a backend Kotlin developer, I wonder if a lot of the advantages that Kotlin used to have over Java are rendered moot by new features in recent versions of Java.
The centralization of train infrastructure in France is especially annoying for someone arriving from the North or East trying to travel towards the South. That Paris does not have a proper rail connection between its various high speed terminals baffles me.
There are next to no security checks on stations that I regularly use throughout Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. I believe that French stations have a turnstile at the platform for TGV trains. Other than that, I know security checks only from Eurostar terminals at the Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris stations.
The main point of the article is that by "covering your ass" you are actually becoming a better developer, because the prose you write is plans and documentation and gives your thoughts structure.
Hence, your personal productivity (measured by what metric?) might suffer for this one task. However, in the long run you and your team gain productivity because of existing explicit documentation and plans.
I wonder the same. This proposal sounds like it is leeching nutrients from the ground and storing it for a long time (on a scale of centuries in the proposal). How do these nutrients cycle back for growing the food that we need? Or, for that matter, for the next round of biomass to freeze?
Caniuse is a database listing browser support for all kind of web development features, i.e. what version of what browser supports what features of HTML, CSS, Javascript.
It helps web developers to determine what language features to use in order to be compatible with the browsers most of their users use.
Okay, that is fair: I am also not happy about us being late with security patches for several weeks. I am not directly involved in that anymore, but I believe, we currently have a policy to release updates quarterly.
Back when I was still working on security updates, this took up so much resources that we struggled to work on anything else (bug fixes, major upgrades, etc.). It is unfortunately a compromise that we currently have to make with our limited resources.
Still, we are planning to release these regular security updates for 10 years and we have a track record of sticking to such plans. In my opinion, that is much better than having monthly updates for a couple of years. (Btw: outside of flagships, many models don't get monthly updates anyway and not even for long.)
Maybe I misunderstand your point of spherical vs parabolic, but doesn't this paragraph explain it?
> The concept turns part of the inside surface of an inflated sphere into a parabolic antenna. A section comprising about a third of the balloon’s interior surface is aluminized, giving it reflective properties.
The balloon is approximately spherical but probably not exactly (actually, when looking closely, hardly any beachballs are spherical either). What is parabolic is the part of the balloon which is aluminized.
I work at Fairphone but am not at all involved with the headphones. Still, I know that this is an issue that we thought about and address.
Headphones should keep working even if the manufacturer goes bust and stops providing software support. And even if your battery dies and spare parts are unavailable. That is precisely the reason why we also sell a cable with a 3.5mm jack for these cans. That way, this product is long-lasting and sustainable even in the (hopefully hypothetical) case that we are not able to support them anymore.
That is the best out of both worlds: you get wireless connectivity and ANC now. And you will be able to use them for as long as you would with wired ones.
Are you sure this is the case? All the carrier app loading implementations that I am aware of (this is a small number) explicitly whitelist some carriers or even some apps by certain carriers. For instance, the implementation I worked on myself (as a reviewer) only granted a single carrier to load one of their apps when the SIM card was inserted.
With that implementation, it would not be possible for any random carrier in a foreign country to load random bloat onto my phone just by me crossing the border to that country.