Martin

Mostly convenience, the Klarna app is miles ahead of what my bank offers.

While I agree that increasing consumer debt is a problem, I think Klarna provides a valuable service for online shopping.

I can get my goods delivered and inspect them before paying anything. If the goods are not as stated (or don’t arrive at all) I just dispute it and then it is Klarnas problem, I haven’t risked anything of my own money. If I had paid up front, I would have to try to get my money back. It’s almost always harder to get money back than to dispute and refuse to pay.

Some regulations are welcome, but I don’t see BNPL as a bad concept in itself.

If you know how the code does something, you also know what it does.

You are absolutely right. It was inline comments I had in mind.

Absolutely, although I see that as part of why

Why is there a horrible hack here? Because stupid reason…

Comments should explain “why”, the code already explains “what”.

Texts are not synchronous communication. If a response/action is needed, a voice call is better suited.

I hate that my government (Sweden) is a driving force behind this.

Pick a small bug or feature from the backlog and fix it. First iteration of a fix is probably shoehorned in there, then I try to adapt the fix to the code base. Matching the style and design of the code base is more important than my own preferences.

I’m a learn by doing kind of person.

That actually looks a bit top heavy.

From a European, what does a standard NA beer bottle look like? I thought your bottles were similar to ours, which means bottom heavy and a slim neck.

Odd choice to use Android 11 on one of them and Android 14 on the other. Makes me suspicious of their ability to keep these devices up to date over time.

This is enough for most projects.

You cannot seed files that are altered. It’s not the same files anymore.

So yes, as long as you want to continue sending, you need to keep the original files around.

I lock my computer whenever I leave my desk.

I hope her surgeon wasn’t named Paolo Macchiarini.

Why would the workday start drift?

You could contact a larger contractor. Going as a subcontractor to a larger contractor means that you get access to their sales department and you can utilize them to build a name for yourself. The downside is, of course, that they take some of the earnings.

I hate when I have to work with non SQL based persistence.

To each their own I guess. 😇

Why not use a compiled language that compiles to fat binaries (rust, go etc)?