Some feedback:
- The constant interrupting each other made it hard to listen to
- Also the interviewer Theo/T3.gg giving his CEO take on strategy to sandbag silverlake after finding out more context behind silverlake and automattic's relationship led me to have an unfavorable impression of the guy
I don’t think that’s fair to say the person is not engaging content in a meaningful way. Have you read the article? It’s pretty clean cut aside from understanding who the perpetrators were. The ceo of a bank got conned and went to prison, and there’s emphasis on calling the con a “pig butchering scam”
Thanks, yeah it does sound like we share the same thoughts regarding paying for solutions that just work
I'm resistant to moving over to Apple because of pure vendor lock in, but also I can decouple passwords from my Apple ID. For example, I use a mac for work but I don't need to sign in to my personal apple id on my work laptop to get access to passwords.
I've been writing Ruby for the past 5 years or so and I think it's safe to say that these are very much opinionated takes on Ruby. There is no _one right way_.
A critique:
1. Verbosity vs Idiomatic, to me I find there are times the verbose approach is actually easier to read and understand
2. Long Expressions to Detect nil - this seems a bit like a strawman, sure there are better ways than to check the presence of an object/method chain, but doing the safe operator can bite you in the leg by compacting the complexity
3. Overuse of self - I skimmed through the Rectangle class declaration... it reminds me of writing Java. I rarely see self#method= used
4. Collecting Results in Temporary Variables - I think this is debatable, there's value in condensing method implementations when it makes sense, but also having temporary variable assignment can lead to better readability
I found the original commit [1] since the other Github link in the thread shows the removal. I'm not entirely sure what the thought process was around adding it to begin with
Gusto adopted it when I was there (I left at the end of 2022). Like other comments, it's a bit polarizing but I found it to be useful when working in large codebases because you one didn't have to reason about return types and could just read them from function signatures.
Getting it to play nicely with Rails and other gems that did metaprogramming magic was a constant pain in the butt though.