Yes they are telling you tomorrow.

Some derivatives aim to lower the risk, so the active decision to buy it would be to ungamble then? Or is it just gambling wyen you choose not to buy it?

Do you have insurance on your house or do you gamble that it will be fine without it?

Exactly! Which is why it is mad trying to outlaw or frown upon “gambling” with stocks.

There are many great wxamples in this thread already of why derivatives are necessary to a functioning society.

I disagree. That’s like saying insurance shouldn’t be allowed.

Highly regulated would be anotheratter though.

I think you have a very specific definition of gambling which I don’t share. To me, gambling is much broader. Wikipedia summarizes it well:

“Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize.”

That’s it. It doesn’t make an opinion whether the bet is fair. There doesn’t have to be a casino involved at all. It also doesn’t require you to put “most or your life savings” into it for it to be gambling.

I think you are conflating high risk, high stakes and even the precence of a casino into the same concept and call it gambling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling

And fuck your versioning system. And you dependency management. And tooling. Why are there like five different projects trying to lock down the python environment? Conda? Venv?

Even Ubuntu tries to lock down python so that it doesn’t brick the install due to dependency conflicts.

Most companies have adapted to that by now. The raise the orice for (at least) rhirty days so that it still looks legit.

The one in your example seems like a failure at that.

I’m on the fence about that one.

Any professional would have a code repository and probably a build server which spits out binaries left and right, off site of course.

Bonus points if that is the easiest way to deploy the software, so all developers actually use it.

Edit: typo

I once dropped all of my chocolate on the floor. That was a waste of Daim.

And if they use the dark pattern of a fake in-app review, so that they can redirect only the good ratings to the app store while opening a “feedback form” for bad ratings - I will actually go out of my way and open the app store and give them a one-star anyway.

Insomnia suddenly turned into a ransomware. Pay up or have all you dara lost!

A few days later Insomnium popped up supporting the old file format.

“It depends” is a good answer, and is in line with me questioning the above comment.

Here’s a link to a recent huge worldwide study: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#salary

I prefer to use statisics rather than anecdotal evidence. The stack overflow survey shows full stack pretty far down:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#salary

Why would you think full stack developers make more money in general?

It’s still too easy to install apps. You xan just type a parent’s password on the kid’s device to continue.

That was always the joke but some people prefer in-joles (i.e. already knowing they have identical faces) over being inclusive and showing the joke at face value. I can appreciate both, depending on finesse.

This joke doesn’t really have any finesse so my vote is for inclusivity.

With this as a guide, it would be enough if the task needed to be done twice per day to break even after five years.

“A”.reverse() === “A”

It’s even worse when you can tell they really tried and still end up with spaghetti. Even mid- to senior developers do this. Rhe more senior they claim to be are, the more embarrasing when you have to get the stick.

Some people try to be so clever with fancy design patterns or bit-tricks, instead of just solving the problem, you now have two problems and a solution to one of them.