Bjarne has explicitly refuted this opinion.

And then the next political cycle hit and I straight up quit. I found the political ads more offensive than anything, and I've never been back since.

FB is a terrible place, ignore the poster you're responding to because they very well could be putting on airs while you're trying to be more honest about things. That's the nature of social media, of which HN is included.

You're right, if the jews start getting gassed again we should attempt to understand Hitler's point of view so that we can claim that we're not falling into the trap of "they are bad and we are good".

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I'm just going to say it now, you are a morally corrupt individual who is putting their own "intellectualism" in front of millions of lives. This is the political version of nihilism. That there is no act so atrocious that you shouldn't stop and try and consider the nuance in the moment. You're the person that will sit down and try and consider the nuance while your neighbors children are being raped in the background by some perpetrator.

The idea of stop the violence, worry about the nuance later flies over your intellectual head.

The people doing the manipulating are generally getting what they want, why would they try to pull the system apart?

Stripe will not allow an idempotent key to be reused w/i 24 hours.

You can use anything for the idempotent key and Stripe will actually track that along with the charge object so you can use something more meaningful if it's useful for your business.

edit: and if you generate a key that's more meaningful I'd be careful about leaking important/private data.

For this reason, it's better to prefer as little structure as you can reasonabley get away with, not more. Now, this is a nuanced view, a senior person can absolutely insist on more structure up front and avoid issues, but they'll have a good reason for doing so that doesn't involve "it's clean code".

But in general, you want as little structure as you can get away with. It's a lot easier to change something that hasn't been abstracted to death with guesses about what the future is going to hold.

I think part of the issue is a perspective thing. If I spend a day throwing something together and it sits for 6 months, great. I got ROI from that code. If 6 months in new requirements come in and I decide I need to rewrite it, who cares. It worked day in and day out for 6 months off a days worth of effort.

Too many people view code as needing to be long lived and unchanging.

If the company REALLY wants that to be my responsibility, they can pay for me to run a 2nd ISP line, or any other myriad potential solutions.

Even in-office, most places don't run backup ISP connections, the internet goes it, it goes out.

Keep doing it, screw the people who can somehow find umbrage at such a non-issue.

edit: family, not friends... brainfart.

My gf wanted a little Japanese plushie so I bought it for her. I don't recall the exact amount, but I bought 2 of them for roughly $100.

A few weeks later we get a large box FULL of varying types of these plushies. After doing some research we find out there was some issue with a new shipping company and they were sending orders to the wrong addresses and so forth. The plushie company basically just said "if you receive it, keep it", and they're currently taking this shipping company to court over it.

Well.... for the next several months every once in a while we'd receive boxes of varying sizes full of different types of plushies. Some of them are recognizable, such as Dragon Quest slime plushies, other's are little food based plushies. I don't know what they are, but like anthropomorphized bread and so forth.

At one point my girlfried tallied it up and I think we received over $3k (retail) worth of these plushies.