Which is a shame - as there are some genuinely good ideas in the set of tech that makes up Web Components. They just aren't very attractive to work with.

I kind of feel they need to scrap it and come up with a compelling v2 that uses what we know now.

JS is heavily used, as is Groovy, Java, Python, C and C ++, etc.

Depends on the project and the team. We're not about limiting people, but the choice should be justifiable (like... Brainfuck is probably not ok)

Cheese on Toast is, by its very name, where the cheese is on the toast. An open-faced grilled cheese if you will.

Well no. It’s usually very positive about them and generally sad that things couldn’t be made to work.

The point is not that they were bad - the idea is Netflix wouldn’t have hired them if that were so! It’s that it just wasn’t a good fit due to misalignment of goals. Perhaps someone doesn’t want to change or just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to.

I’ve read a few departure emails in my time at Netflix and none of them - even the one with the C level exec who is mentioned in the article - were “badmouthing” anyone.

If anything they’re quite positive about the person tbh.

Netflix is not even close to that in my experience, nor have I seen any evidence of that in the engineering teams around me.

Of course some teams may be different-and it certainly is different to how many companies operate-but the article seems to be unfairly characterizing the culture based on grumbling from a few disgruntled ex employees.

While many 8-bit versions of BASIC were derived from MS BASIC (1975) it was hardly Microsoft’s baby. Atari BASIC for example has zero to do with MS. Neither does TinyBASIC

BASIC itself is absolutely free. Certain implementations are not.

In Indian cuisine it's used as an umami enhancer. Usually with turmeric in vegetable dishes - especially lentil curries like dal and sambar but also those based on potato and cauliflower.

Kashmiri cuisine famously uses it in Rogan Josh.

For those wondering: the “first rung” is more like $110k plus stock options (which you have to pay for - they’re not RSUs - so calling them “income” is rank nonsense)

The estimates for stock options value on there are also WILDLY high compared to people I know who actually work there.

Very suspect.

Some people just like driving & side hustles

Care to get specific?

It hasn’t got worse over time however - it was hideous then and is still awful - so I guess your point stands.

But also being built in is big too