It’s better to quote a reserved word than to be unable to use it.

Seems to me the article focused on how they did this big job, rather than why.

There are times when mistakes will cause more serious problems for customers. There are times when staff will be less available to aid recovery. A good strategy shouldn't deny these truths.

Will the compiler infer that a lambda or a method ref implements Func with its exception type param, or do you have to rewrite call sites?

The compiler already infers that in current Java for one checked exception type, and also for several exception types at least in some cases (the latter seems to be a little more buggy in the current implementation).

Software demand skyrocketed because of the WWW, which came out in 1991 just before Python (although Perl, slightly more mature, saw more use in the early days).

Deep work needs peace and quiet. This is getting hard to find in an open plan office, except late in the evening.

Some people like working in an office to escape home distractions.

Open plan offices tend to be productivity-destroying for technical work that requires concentration. I assume they were largely adopted to save money, as a status indicator vs. managers with private offices, for surveillance, and for appearance.

The only open plan approach that I have seen work is a library where noise is forbidden and private work carrels are provided.

Had a CEO who extolled how much better open plans were, how vibrant it made the workplace, and so on and so on... Years later she admitted it was just to save money. I refuse to call an open office an "office" - that vibrant office she described back then? Full of people wearing headphones to block out all the noise they otherwise couldn't escape.

Do they sit on just regular desk in middle of noisiest part? Outside the few times they happen to be visiting the some side office...

This. It's so frustrating that sync.Map isn't generic and reusing the builtin map API is impossible.

Boring repetition is a bad fit for the human brain. Working memory is very small. Mistakes per line are frequent. It wants to see patterns that are not quite there. Even when it works out, it's millions of times slower than having the computer fill in grunt work from a more concise and readable spec of the problem.

Sure, there were some news articles about a theory held by a couple of scientists. But the scientific consensus was that global warming was an issue.

There isn't even a Scientific consensus right now.

Sure, "news articles" put out by fossil fuel / Koch brother backed think tanks were already spreading the FUD 40 years ago.

That's at least how long C02 emmissions have been recognised as a pressing problem and how long those making Texas Oil baron profits (globally, not just in Texas) have been delibrately confusing the issue to avoid doing anything to slow emmissions.

The first sound thoughts on the matter were over a century past, rightly speculating on the consequences of putting more blankets on the bed (ie: more insulating gases in the atmosphere), and the first solid atmospheric geophysics paper on C02 and warming dates back to 1967.

The "aww, but an ice age" stuff is just a distraction for the kiddies.

If anything, that stuff really highlights the issue as assuming "all things being the same" the planet probably should be headed back into more glaciation (we're already in an "ice age" - the poles have ice; we're in an age of cyclic glaciation) .. except it isn't.

Humans have not only stopped the expected advance of glaciers, we've added enough insulation to reverse them and start to heat up our "sweet spot" of the ages in which human civilisation developed.

Around competitive prices and terms rather than a monopoly.