northernman

> Healthcare in Canada is essentially not available.

Do you live in Canada??

This is a ridiculous comment - healthcare is broadly available, especially for critical conditions.

Perhaps in a few years we can have another PEP, to require "except BaseException" to be replaced with bare "except:". Then we can all change our code back again.

Nonsense

I think you mean "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"

I read this book:

     <https://books.google.ca/books/about/Artificial_Intelligence_Through_Simulate.html?id=QMLaAAAAMAAJ>

in 1972. It was published in 1966.

Fixed a Hayward salt generator by replacing a burnt out thermistor.

Cost was $1.00 for two of them, so I now have a spare.

Replacing the entire PCB would have been ~$400+ CAD.

I've had several kidney stones - usually at about one year intervals.

The first was the worst because you don't know what it is. Subsequent stones didn't seem to be as bad, since I knew I was going to survive.

The emerg doc told me that some ladies say the pain worse than childbirth.

Which existing feature did they remove? You could still use Google maps (and you still can).

That isn't true:

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/can-fentanyl-be-ab...

See also "The Sun Is God" by Adrian McKinty.

1. Pi3 controlling my swimming pool pump (basically a fancy timer)

2. PiZero controlling a mousetrap (servoe controlled trapdoor with IR sensor)

That's exactly what I was referring to. That page, while perfectly respectable, doesn't use fancy fonts, drop down menus, etc. which the original article highlighted.

My point is that Stripe's success was primarily driven by the excellent quality of their api and documentation, and not by fancy website design.

That success allowed them to subsequently devote the resources needed to produce the current incarnation of their website.

Nice article, but please don't draw the conclusion that this design has anything to do with Stripe's success. Rather, they can afford to put this level of effort into the design as a consequence of their success.

Check out the Wayback machine to see early versions of their website.

In situations like this, its normal to think that your own behavior is faultless, and that the "others" are conspiring to screw you over.

In reality, its usually you that is the problem. For whatever reason, the people in power don't view you as a key player. They may even be hoping you'll leave.

Situations like this are pretty much unrecoverable, so best to look for another job.

But, do think hard about where you went wrong, so that the same thing doesn't happen again.

I really hope this idea dies quickly.

One of the best things about json is its simplicity and rigid syntax.

If we open up this can of worms, we will incur thousands of man-years of future wasted time tracking down incompatibility issues.