An example of first is a trial of an app but you don't like it in the end, an example of the latter is a game that you might want to play with the same settings later.

Now, I want the option. In the first case I don't want these inert files taking up disk space and in the second I want to have those files.

I think their argument is sound and it makes using bzip2 less useful in certain situations. I was once saved in resolving a problem we had when I figured out that concatening gzipped files just works out of the box. If not, it would have meant a bit more code, lots of additional testing, etc.

I write lots of automated tests, but almost always after the development is finished. The only exception is when reproducing a bug, where I first write the test that reproduces it, then I fix the code.

TDD is about developing tests first then writing the code to make the tests pass. I know several people who gave it an honest try but gave up a few months later. They do advocate everyone should try the approach, though, simply because it will make you write production code that's easier to test later on.

I think the problem is that the product folks don't actually listen to the market. They read Jobs' biography and are convinced that they will tell their users what product they will like and that they will see the light later on.

The sad reality is: they are not Jobs (and even he was not faultless). So, we get Mac like Windows interfaces, we get mail clients losing features, we get AI in every single app you see, etc.

Just my 2c.

It looked horrible, the textures just wouldn't load no matter what I tried. Finally, on a forum, some other user, presumably also from Europe, noted that you have to use decimal point as a decimal separator (my locale uses a comma). And that solved the problem.

I guess that's fine for now, but it would be better if we could get European alternatives to AWS or GCP.

When not given a clear guideline to "just" refactor, I have had problems with LLMs hallucinating functions that don't exist.

I am not sure, it seems I did misremember. Though it's possible I was actually working with needs-lock files. I can definitely see a certain coworker from that time to put this on all files :/

The wikipedia seems to make a clear definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death

That said, the above article does use extinction and death somewhat interchangably later on, but I suppose it's almost the same for small languages that nobody learns who is not a native speaker.

A DVCS was definitely required. And I would say git won out due to Linus inventing and then backing it, not because of a platform that would serve it.

In these terms, telnet has been dead for a long while, but it's extinct now.