As a dev you would use Oracle only if your execs have cut a sweet licensing deal with the Oracle.

:)

Spending my Saturday reading various answers with different perspectives on the the genesis of the holy war between "is Java pass by reference" and "is Java pass by value" proponents.

‘However with the development of antibiotics, UBI use declined and it has now been called “the cure that time forgot”.‘

It says antibiotics. Is it me or UBI was used to treat bacterial infections or the OP is desperately correlating this study with the “effectiveness” of testing viruses with UBI? I feel like a lot of partisan users are getting the boot from Reddit and they are channeling out their frustrations here. Guys let’s keep HN pure with tech only posts.

I agree with you. Title is misleading.

Updated. Thanks for the tip.

Questions like these on SO should be taught in CS-101. There are some amazing answers in there that I would have hard time finding in textbooks.

A recommended link from SO article - https://wiki.haskell.org/Parallelism_vs._Concurrency - mentions the following:

"Warning Not all programmers agree on the meaning of the terms 'parallelism' and 'concurrency'. They may define them in different ways or do not distinguish them at all."

Most of the items I have ordered from non-Aamazon small businesses during COVID-19 crisis is backed by Shopify platform. Their checkout form has a very unique layout so it is easy to tell without looking at the page source.

My hunch is that Shopify is seeing surges in some areas because Amazon has been picked over for many items and can no longer adequately stock what consumers are looking for in some cases.

Many small Shopify retailers have pivoted quickly and are stocking some items that Amazon is having trouble keeping in stock.

Is Shopify’s form the one that has awesome address autofill?

I love that because my street name is like 40 characters long, it doesn’t even fit in the legacy IT systems used by utilities.

Yes, they do have autofill.

Amazon's (+Wholefood) supply-chain failure is an eye-opener for me during COVID-19 crisis. I hate to acknowledge my dependability on Amazon Prime while living in a big city. I am not sure how I will break my habit but I know for a fact that I won't be ordering everything from Amazon Prime in the future.

For a company that commands e-commerce space in year 2020, it is really frustrating to find this workflow while ordering from WF while using Amazon's app, it is a joke and UI/UX 101 blunder. You add items to your cart. They run out of inventory. Items disappear from your cart. Either you place your order assuming all items were in your cart or you don't get a delivery slot and you have to add those items again. Why can't they just borrow the same feature from Amazon.com where unavailable items move conveniently to "Save later" section?

Well, time to change location privacy setting from "Always" to "Never".

Why do developers prefer dark mode for pretty much everything from IDE to OS to iOS?

Edit: added missing 'much'

I cannot comment on developers' preferences as a whole, but I personally have several large floaters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater) and using a display with a bright background makes them very noticeable and distracting. Which is why I use Dark Reader (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoo...) for websites and dark themes in my OS/terminal/IDEs. It's not just an aesthetic choice.

For me, eye strain, and being more of a night owl (where it gets dark outside during winter).

I favor Solarized, which has both a light and dark theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized_(color_scheme)

I prefer consistency. The system setting, is the best here. If my system is dark, go dark, if light, go light. At night, dark is great, in a bright room, light wins. Shifting between the extremes is horrid.

AKA Both at the same time.

I feel like light mode is way way easier on my eyes, but I generally work in well lit rooms and avoid computers at night.

Plus I think it's important for your circadian rhythm. Bright blue-ish white makes you feel like it's daytime

I find it easier on the eyes if I stare at a screen the whole day.

I don't mind light-on-dark in isolation, but so much stuff doesn't have dark mode, and I find it very difficult to switch.

I agree with you. Plus, as a light mode user I always have hard time when someone is doing code-walkthrough in dark mode.