dipthegeezer

In case people are wondering about the reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzx5Hwg24xw

Uber will appeal no doubt and probably promise to sort out their problems, say they are reforming etc.. and then get the license back

I concur, I really don't see what value this brings over the official aws cli.

I remember back when I was a kid my uncle told me a story about a night watchman who had a few drinks to alleviate the boredom of his job. He got really drunk and wondered off into the jungle ( back then the line between where the city starts and the jungle begins was shall we say blurred, probably still is ). Anyway they found his half eaten body the next morning not far from his post. I think my uncle told me that story to scare the hell out of me but, it had the opposite affect. I just said that that was the coolest thing ever and we should go leopard hunting.

I'd say it was very good compared to just about any country that is not in North Europe. And I really don't have an issue with busses anymore in London. TFL have a fantastic API which tells you when the bus you want is arriving at a stop amoungst many other things.

Brilliant Erlang gets even better.

I don't code in any of those languages so no good for me.

Javascript is fairly new, Perl hass been around for ages. So there is a lot of old code knocking about that was written quickly and by people who quite frankly did not know what they were doing. Perl5 is actually extremely readable and if you are any where near a decent developer you will understand it. I have worked in loads of companies and bad code is bad code no matter the language. I have have seen some Java code that made me want to give up development for good, and don't get me started on legacy browser javascript code.

Well you still have job adverts from big boys like twitter saying 'responsible enjoyment of beer' as a prerequisite.

https://twitter.com/jobs/positions?jvi=ooE7VfwO,Job

If that's not appealing to the frat boy crowd then I don't know what is.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of people don't actually drink ( I know hard to believe! ), or have a life that doesn't involve drinking all the time. As someone who's been there and got the T-shirt I get jaded when I see things like this. A lot of the best coders are past the 'frat boy' stage and prefer a mature working environment when they see things like this it sends alarm bells ringing.