A colleague wrote Java style Python. SomethingDispatcher().dispatch() all the way. It's a mess. Poor guy was thrown into the deep end and left alone for a year. I don't blame him for the outcome.
Meanwhile, functools.partial is one of my favorite tools. I wrote a whole SCADA system in which the initialization just builds data pathways using functools.partial so that incoming event callbacks can be handled with all necessary resources already in scope. Any missing data is made apparent at init, not at event time. It's fast and stable (and I'm pretty proud of it lol).
I usually use my phones until the battery has noticeably degraded, so there's no market for whatever remains. I have two phones lying on my desk as backup in case the migration to the respective new one doesn't work. It's been years since my last upgrade.
The boxes lie next to the phones. They're not even inside the box.
Du bist schuld, dass die Konjunktur den Bach runter geht. Das ist Geld, das du den Einmerherstellern geklaut hast, indem du keinen neuen gekauft hast! Der günstige Eimer ist nur möglich, wenn sie entsprechende zukünftige Absätze schon mit reinkalkulieren können!
Oder es ist Gier.
(Dieser Kommentar startete als Anspielung auf Weichwarenpiraterie und wandelte sich dann in eine Anspielung auf das Reparaturrecht.)
Apple is great when it comes to design and aesthetics. Jobs was known for being great at conveying a feeling in his presentations, and their products were always aimed at a "it just works, don't worry about how" crowd. It's no wonder they were copied left and right (slide to unlock, round corners etc., as ridiculous as some of those patents are).
That said, I feel like Android and iOS have come ever closer to equality. Google is locking down their walled garden, both app stores have basically become useless - apps are just custom browsers to webpages now and games suuuuck - with the exception that Apple's walled garden enables compilation and therefore better battery efficiency, which in turn makes phones lighter.
The worst part is: yes! Tons of studies come to that conclusion. Be it reading comprehension, lead poisoning, or the active dismantling of the US education system for the last eight decades, it's all part of the same picture. But what can you do about it if the group of preteens is self governing and won't see the problem?
It's the embodiment of ad hominem. She can't be right because she's (was) a kid.