A lot of system scripts are written in python.

Hasn't Google more more or less prioritized "authority" since Pagerank?

Of course, the exact heuristics to weight authority are in a continuous flux.

> Tech is supposed to just be tech, but when the community behaves this badly about adopting improvements how can that not influence your decision to invest in that tech?

What you say was bad about it? And who were the bad people specifically? The people who were using python 2 or python 3?

For what it's worth, python3 >= 3.0 && python <= 3.2 were hideously broken in their unicode support. Arguably had worse/unusable uncode relative to python 2.6 or 2.7.

So there was a huge failure to launch type of problem, especially given how long python3 had been development.

It most definitely left a very sour taste in many people's mouth that didn't start dissipating till 3.5 or 3.6 when enough "killer" features had accumulated.

Even then, for a lot of usages, python 2.7 'just works'.

Have you ever done much optimization or worked on solvers? DP tends to come up often in that type of work.

I would say going further back in time, for example, MSFT during the early 2000s, the interviews were far worse, it was "fermi" types of questions (e.g, https://www.innovativeteachingideas.com/blog/an-excellent-co...)

Often the same thing in for example, typical wall street firms before 2008.

Like everything else, it's an opportunity cost. Personally, I think LC is a great return on time invested. It takes far less time and money than say, any of the traditional gatekeepers, even for example a CS degree, or even perhaps a good data structures and algorithms class that is semester long.

> What if you aren't willing or able to relocate, though?

Many jobs are fully remotable now (tho it varies from almost all of them like Meta, to almost none of them like Apple). Sometimes slightly less money.

What would be a good source for non-faang fully remote jobs in Europe? I keep looking at various sites, but most companies seem to abuse remote postings by posting partially remote, on-site or only-remote-within-the-same-country jobs on sites for fully remote jobs.

It seems like depending on how you configure typescript (e.g, in tsconfig), typescript is already something like an ensemble of mini-languages with different dialects and semantics. Much more so than other languages. But I agree, restricted typescript that has to do less work (data or control flow analysis) would probably be on the orders of magnitude faster.

I think many cryptocurrencies are on the edge of pump and dump schemes, amplified by social media.

A friend of mine made a decent amount just tracking the tweets of Elon Musk and other coin influencers a few years ago.

It kind of reminds me of Yahoo Pipes