However, experience with it led to my sense that Python just doesn't scale (especially back then, without type annotations) past a certain size of program.
The Code Search team had been re-inventing its UI and changing a lot (changing its focus from external to internal), and had the inspiration to leverage what they'd done to create Critique. They sold Mountain View on it, and made history. Exciting times.
No, Critique existed before the quick edit feature was added to Code Search.
While I think the quick edits were worthwhile, it became too much too support both it and Cider (and edits in Critique), so it was removed to streamline things. As Cider became better, I think it was an okay trade-off.
Most of the engineers making most of the tools being praised in this thread are in Germany, so I don't think that generalization quite holds.
Even if the best SWEs are better in the Bay area, there's also a lot more competition for them, so Google in Germany might be able to get top 1% there (and in neighboring countries) but Google in the Bay Area is probably having a tough time getting even top 10%.
In all seriousness, no, it shows that there were at least two cases of political science in the last 400 years, not that all science is.
I think there have been more, and it plays a role, but I don't buy that you can just dismiss the criticism of political science with the claim that it always is.
There are matters of degrees, and it's almost universally acknowledged to be bad, because it usually means results and emphasis have been distorted because of the politics.
But that wouldn't capture how it tends to be meant -- an instruction to take things on faith without any questioning, even if it contradicts other known facts or your direct experience.
The thing is, it's not just loyalty, it's also a 'better than only mid-level believers in the cause'. There's definitely a purity / piety aspect. I do like "piety" as it captures the religious aspect.
The point is more that "the science" is too broad and vague and uncertain. The science for cancer might be that the currently best known treatment acknowledged in country X is to follow a particular treatment process. That changes across time and countries. And often the studies have assumptions baked in. So there isn't a blind belief in "the science"
The footage is out there, you can review it yourself, no racial epithets were yelled. The mens basketball team was there, with a good number of black people; not a single heard anything. The entire crowd would need to be complicit, along with the refs and the coach.
It seems very clearly, at best, the person misheard, although more likely made up.
Has your trusted friend ever said "no, that's not a good reason"?
Because, if not at least few times by the 100+ people, they are probably not providing the service you think they, but instead just agreeing with what they think you want to hear.
However, experience with it led to my sense that Python just doesn't scale (especially back then, without type annotations) past a certain size of program.
The Code Search team had been re-inventing its UI and changing a lot (changing its focus from external to internal), and had the inspiration to leverage what they'd done to create Critique. They sold Mountain View on it, and made history. Exciting times.