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It's a work of historical fiction that fictionalized history in order to tell a fictional story about a fictional character. Not a documentary. Like Netflix says, the case has no merit. they're not saying her feelings have no merit or that they didn't say what they said, just that the lawsuit has no merit and they have a legal right to say what they said.

It's an extremely dangerous precedent to set that anyone offended by fiction can sue the artist and win. that precedent would also have the inverse effect that an independent author could write a piece of fiction where Netflix lost to Blockbuster and went bankrupt then Netflix sues that author for offending and misrepresenting the company's history.


> complex apps like gmaps and Google docs were written entirely in JS

I always assumed complex Google apps from that era were built with GWT, which would mean Java.


No, but they were written using the Closure Compiler type annotations. So closer to TS than plain JS.


Closure compiler was released in 2009, google maps in 2005. So no, you've got it all wrong. The only thing limiting you from using the full power of JS is your mindset. And Google maps is just one example, others include nodejs, electron, react, vue, svelte....


That's what that was!? I aways wondered why some people would end their emails to me with "J". At first I thought it was a typo, then I thought it was just some encoding issue. Never knew I was missing out on smiles.


I always assumed there was some piece of Internet wisdom I didn't that the "J" represented.


Me too. I interpreted it as a smile, but just assumed it was some meme I didn't know about (and couldn't be bothered to look up).

At least I never replied to anyone with an explicit J, as in "Thank you J"


I'm called James so when I got a "Thanks J", I thought they had taken it on themselves to give me a new nickname. Perhaps signing off my emails with "Thanks :)" gave them sane impression.

Strangely felt better when I realised it was a smiley face.


Me too! Plus everybody calls me "J" or "JJ" because those are my initials and it is universally known that I dislike my name.


That explains a lot of things (my name also begins with J)


Tab is great for auto-complete.


This is the moment that our robot overlords will point back to in order to justify their cruel reign.


I think it's stupid too, but every job posting lists required years of experience.


That a lot of job postings make a mistake does not mean you must duplicate it on your resume.

Most places (and probably all places that aren't incompetently managed/places you would want to work at) do not filter resumes on the basis of "Our posting said 5+ years of C++ and nowhere on this resume does it say C++ - X Years! Rejected!". If you break your resume down along the lines of "At FooBar Corp I was directly responsible for frobnitzing the blahblahblah with C++", "At Quux Labs my primary achievement was using C++ to cromlify the flux capacitor" etc, most places won't even bother to total up the years involving a given technology.

X Years with Y are a vague wishlist item that job posting writers unthinkingly cargocult around as a rough signal of whether they want a junior engineer or someone more senior. Don't give them too much thought, never let them convince you to disqualify yourself from a job without applying, and definitely don't cargocult along with them.


Ok, thanks. I was thinking more from the point of view that programming is a skill and skills develop with hours of practice.


Skill development, in the model of K. Anders Ericsson, requires a certain type of deliberate practice, not simply "hours of practice." Moreover, he argues that it's only possible to spend a few hours a day at deliberate practice. The rest doesn't contribute to improved learning.


After a few real years, you'll start to appreciate how much experience your brain gets when you're washing the dishes. You need time away from the primary task to get better at it. I also echo the other points.


I'm surprised average hours per week or per year wasn't on the list. This also just confirms how grossly underpaid I am.


Maybe this is important, not because it an accurate representation of dyslexia, but because it can simulate the effect of it. I could read everything pretty quickly and accurately except for some of the longest words, but I got this feeling of my brain's CPU overheating. At the end of the article I was frustrated and tired. I wanted to stop reading. This is coming from someone who probably reads tens of thousands (or more) of words per day of articles, emails, comments, and source code.


`font-weight: 100` and `color: #757575` for body text? It's barely readable on a retina display. It's an eyesore on my PC.


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