"Kalin said that he named the site Etsy because he "wanted a nonsense word because I wanted to build the brand from scratch. I was watching Fellini's 8 ½ and writing down what I was hearing. In Italian, you say etsi a lot. It means 'oh, yes' (actually it's "eh, si"). And in Latin and French, it means 'what if'."[43][44] In Greek, Etsy means "just because"."
My first job out of college (2007) involved a lot of removal of early 2000s one-off custom payment processing code. Access DBs full of years worth of credit card numbers, code that just emailed the credit card details to the site owner without keeping a record, etc. It was definitely a different world. Most of them, I just switched to PayPal shopping cart and checkout. In retrospect, I didn't know wtf I was doing and probably shouldn't have been working on it.
Yeah, I worked for an agency around the same sort of time and saw exactly the same kind of thing.
I remember one site that saved all the CC and order details to a plain text file in the web root. This was opened using an FTP programme every evening and someone would run the numbers through the machine in their store and post out the orders...
Sure, there's always room for improvement, but at the very least SSL/TLS is ubiquitous now, there actual TLS versions are much better, developers generally view holding onto CC data directly as toxic (the growth of things like Stripe checkout, etc.)
Or even separate twin xl mattresses (and box springs if applicable) with a strap kit and shared king fitted sheet. My wife and I did this about 2 years ago and it's been great. She wanted a traditional mattress and I wanted to diy a memory foam mattress with a 6" layer of memory foam* (2-4 is normal). I sink into my viscoelastic cocoon every night and she sleeps on top of a normal mattress.
*Note that this is usually considered uncomfortable and possibly bad for your back. I'm a side sleeper who always had elbow and shoulder pain in the morning and it worked for me, but do your research if you ever decide to diy a mattress. It also weighs about as much as a dead moose.
This is generally true of most toys nowadays, unless they are designed for collectors. The level of detail in many 90s and early 2000s figures are superior to the poor modern day stuff. In the case of Micro Machines, many of the molds are the same but the plastic is softer and cheaper, while the paint jobs are downright sloppy.
They're chunkier than the old ones.
My mom gave me a box with all of mine and my brothers' old Micro Machines in it. My son discovered them and quickly found his favorite ones. They now go with us as "car toys" and "restraint toys" because they're so small and portable.
But the new ones are slightly larger and chunkier than the original.
I was asked to take the StrengthsFinder test (imo kind of similar to Myers-Briggs) after being hired on at my current employer. The results basically said my strengths are ADHD, but in a really positive way. Nobody ever followed up with me on it or mentioned it again. Honestly it was pretty accurate. The job is extremely laid back, no hard deadlines, no emergencies, etc. It's been a huge challenge to maintain a similar level of output when compared to past jobs.
This sounds so similar to my experience at a prior employer that I have to hazard a guess. Does this company, by chance, have (or had at least, prior to the pandemic) an elaborate on boarding ceremony?
The universe X example has some merit too. The developer got a raise, the business was excited enough to get this feature done ahead of schedule that someone actually put in the effort to push through a raise, and the total cost for this was one man-week of extra work a year later - basically a drop in the bucket, budget-wise.
You're focusing too much on the specifics of the hypothetical rather than the point of the hypothetical. If you can't get out to the abstraction, then in universe X, programmer B-Z all spend 3 weeks on a feature, and in universe Y, programmer B-Z all spend 1 week on a feature. So we've got an extra man year being burned, all to save a man week upfront. Extend to whatever point short of breaking the analogy you care to.
I experienced scenario #2 on my son's Chromebook during pandemic school closings. One day he logged in with his school account and about half the apps were disabled, including core stuff he needed to do school work. I got the "we can't control your computer, that's not how computers work" speech from the school. It was one of the most frustrating things I've ever experienced. The policies finally got fixed a few days later, but I'm pretty sure the people I talked to thought I was crazy.
