Ok, but the J stands for “Google”

A larger, ambulatory pizza?

exactly why I wrap the parts I need, it’s like git, tons of power, zero help.

I’ll take overloaded operators over overloaded functions any day of the week, and I also hate overloaded operators.

Python’s optional typing has come a very long way in the past few years, you might be able to mitigate this with some creative application of typing.

Edit: I read your post closer, I’m not sure typing would help with the overloaded operator issue and now I have something fun to try out later 😁

Ok, everyone who’s ever had to use datetime hates it, but not because it’s insufficient, but because international date/time is such a nightmare that the library must be complicated enough to support all the edge cases I’m convinced that library has a function for traveling trough time.

For years I’ve wrapped datetime with custom functions that do exactly and only what I want to mitigate its all-plumbing-zero-porcelain approach to the problem.

I always respond with “Do you want to know if something broke? Then slow down and write tests”

I imagine if baptisms stacked, you could pile on a gazillion of them like ablative armor against incoming sin.

Old programs everyone agrees do exactly what they should are a perfect target for “black box” porting to a new language, where the only criteria for success are “it should function exactly like before, just more efficiently, while being more maintainable”

Nissan: Anal Rogue

I bet the first tap to pay device maker patented the good spot.

It’s a meme, but! This is an excellent analogy. A “full stack” dev will definitely make a taco truck app, but maybe that’s all the customer needs.

dataclasses do this for you at the class level. They enforce type annotations at instantiation.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html

Oh I’m well aware. Took me a solid year to appreciate type annotations for what they are and yeah I’m happy using what we have in stdlib now and not messing with mypy tyvm. The problem is that history is lost to newcomers who have very different expectations. Modern IDE’s mostly solve it though, so for all my Java peeps dipping their toes into the snake waters, listen to your ide

Dude, even just a “FY,I, you sure about this?” would be nice. I gladly embrace python’s by-all-means-shotgun-your-leg-off philosophy, but the noobs could use the help.

python:

a: str = 1

So fucking true. I’ve was in an interview, 2nd round, where the recruiter joined the call mid coding exercise to explain that a different recruiter had just given the position to someone else without waiting for feedback on anyone else and therefore they had to stop all in process interviews. She was pissed and apologized. The guy giving the interview just gave me this look like “they do this shit all the time” and ended the call.

Tech recruiters really can be this dumb. I’ve been on both ends several times.

I remember hiring for a test dev, writing the description for the recruiter, I included all the things I’d like to see. Python, test automation experience, open source contributions etc (this was for a public facing repo).

I get back a question a day later asking if they need Java or not. That felt really out of place so I walked over and had a conversation. Turns out they were filtering out anyone who had more than requested. Python AND Java experience? No thank you.

On the upside once we ironed that out I ended up hiring two people I’ve been friends with for a decade+. Sometimes the recruiters just need help.

Now the other side of things…I’ve definitely had recruiters screw up and lose very good candidates, but it was always for stupid shit like they forgot to send the offer letter for a week or they accidentally put them in the “no” pile.

Heh, this one time we got a recruiter ping our team out of the blue saying they had a candidate. No one knew what the hell the position was for. Turns out the recruiters had forgot about a bunch of openings we had closed like a year before, they just never took down the postings. We asked him how he found the job, and the candidate said he manual went through the thousands of open positions until he found one that fit him. He hired him after the first round and he turned out to be awesome.