I think prototypes are fine to answer specific questions. However, I think it’s often the case that management doesn’t understand what a prototype is and thinks that this is just the alpha release of the real product.
Rule of thumb: if you don’t throw away all of the code after having answered that question you were writing it for, it’s not a prototype.
Rejected asylum just means that there is no humanitarian reason why they couldn’t return to their home country, not that they couldn’t fit into Europe.
For example, I know a young man who came here from Tajikistan. His asylum request was rejected, but because that process took so long, he had already built up a whole life here. He has a lot of local friends, a girlfriend and a got full education in gastronomy, where he is working full time. He got a special permit to remain here due to support from local people.
In my case, it was in Dart. Dart allows extending existing classes with new methods, but unfortunately this doesn't allow implementing abstract mixins (which is the equivalent of Rust's trait) on other types. Dart is in this weird middle where it's not really strictly typed (it has dynamic, which is like the any type in TypeScript), but the compiler doesn't allow ducktyping anyways.
Breakfast is included with these Nightjets, although it's pretty minimal (two rolls with butter and jam and a cup of coffee or tea). On the plane I got a sandwich with awful bread and a single thin slice of cheese in it.
The train is also an exercise in waiting, since there are about 4 hours before and after it's bed time. However, it's not so much time lost, because you have a fixed space and don't have to move around so much like on an airport, so it's easy to open up a laptop and get some work done.
Last weekend, a few friends of mine and I made a trip halfway through Europe. I took the plane because I couldn’t get a ticket on the train any more, the others took the night jet (Austrian train service driving through the night with beds on board).
My 1.5h flight was delayed, and it was a big drama with connecting flights etc. It was by 5 minutes.
My friends' route was through Germany. Besides them needing 14h according to the regular schedule, they had a delay of 3h. There was no special accident or anything, the train just had to stop on the track a few times and in some sections it went at walking speed, probably because the track is in such a bad shape.
This is such a miserable experience. The price was about the same, btw.
I personally care about the full product, because that's what I'm selling. I have no idea why your generateUniqueDeviceKey would be valuable on its own.
Under the Copyright Act, a compilation is a "work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term compilation includes collective works" 17 U.S.C. 101. This gives the compilation a separate copyright from any of the individual pieces within it. An author who creates a compilation owns the copyright of the compilation but not of the component parts.
Yes, that's the key. I haven't written assembly code since the 1990s, I use higher-level abstractions to get to the goal more quickly now. AI-generated code is just yet another layer of abstraction away from machine language.
Weta was an especially weird and expensive acquisition, since they're not even in the same field.