Interesting, I posted a top level comment to you but you’re already doing some similar things to what I posted.

I like to ask candidates to tell me about a design pattern, or a framework, or a coding principle that they really appreciate and which changed how they think about or write code. It’s an open-ended way to show me they care about the craft.

People who find the field interesting and somewhat fun (AKA not just lucrative) usually have these kinds of preferences or paradigm-shifting moments / learnings. People who can’t come up with anything for this question tend to be real junior or just in it for the wrong reasons. Or so I tell myself, anyway.

Holy fuck! Welp, today’s the day, I’ve been a heavy Google user since they became a company basically. Starting to unwind all that TODAY.

First time I’ve ever seen him referenced anywhere outside where I learned of him! Best dude, what an inspiration.

LOL I forgot about that, what a dork.

You’re great and you should feel great!

FWIW I shifted my monthly Wikipedia donation to The Internet Archive recently and recommend others do the same. Just a few bucks a month, please, it matters. Zero hate for Wikipedia, it’s a critically important piece of human culture, but they’re plenty good on $ and we need to be fostering backups of shared knowledge and historical records. This is important! No one will do it for us, only we who care can do it!

Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad

Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.