Genuinely surprised anybody would acquire Splunk in 2023. Whenever you hear about Splunk from security engineers, they're actively trying to get off it (edit: yes, primarily because of cost). Better, next-gen SIEMs are either here or around the corner.
Having worked at a company with a million-lines-plus of Python monolith, gradual typing annotations made all the difference. Why do you need it enforced at runtime? It's static types!
Drew Houston needs to step down. The company has been aimless for a decade. The 'collaborative workspace' was an obviously bad idea that they sunk years of company-wide resources on (ask me how I know!)
The legacy framework was Pylons, which eventually evolved into Pyramid.
The tldr is there were hundreds of unowned endpoints that, yes, were allowed to fester. They eventually got ownership on all endpoints, so you had somebody to exert pressure on to make things happen.
Some projects need performant regexes, and some honestly just don't. I agree that keeping the base regex library linear is admirable, but it's be nice if they offered a well-marked thing like regex.slow_and_perl_like in the stdlib
(Note: my knowledge here is out of date as of 2015.)
Sable is relatively ancient and badly in need of deprecation. (If I remember correctly, as of 2011 it was sort of in a "please consider alternate storage solutions" mode.) It is the closest to a single point of failure I can think of at Amazon.
Hopefully this is the kick in the ass they need to move to something more robust.
Skype for Android is unbelievably bad. I uninstalled it after the following:
- a spam bot texts me asking to connect - which, whatever.
- my locked phone wakes up from sleep and /launches into Skype/ to show me this exciting information
- it literally could be solved by a notification
- it is not configurable in settings
I can understand the "bypass lock screen" behavior for an incoming phone call, but this is such an unbelievably bad interaction even for contacts you do know, nevermind contacts you don't.
Skype engineers - and I know you're reading this - show this to your PMs.
I'd just like to give a shout-out to Jetbrains for being really responsive on their bug tracker! I've reported a couple bugs about PEP 484 type comments and they've acknowledged or fixed them usually within a week.
While I agree that the article is all business-speak ("we're just like Apple!" said every auto exec ever), the Mazda/Ford partnership is basically done as of the market crash. Ford at one point owned 33% of it in the 90s, now down to 2.1%.