I'm largely happy with GitHub though for public GitHub at least, search is now terrible - it doesn't seem to return anything when not logged in and if you are logged in the filtering options are limited (this was the case mid last year anyway - maybe it's improved but I've given up trying to use the web search).

I miss Gerrit - it was the first code review tool I used at work. Using GitHub and GitLab as subsequent jobs hasn't been fun.

Sounds about right. One of Australia's big four banks had the online banking password requirement of exactly six characters for a long time - for similar reasons I assume.

Agreed. I assume there are reasons for this design choice though?

Australia recently locked under 16s out of social media and it seems like the social media companies used heuristics to determine if accounts were owned by under 16s... so I assume Discord will do something similar.

I'm in Australia and have not been prompted to verify my identity for any service (I'm assuming that one of the heuristics is average age of "friends" but I have no idea).

Yep, some stakeholder wants a pen-test or an audit so you do it and address the findings to keep them happy. Going through it now at work - bunch of silly findings because the pen testers know they don't get paid to send back an empty report and tell you everything is fine.

I remember reading years ago that in the early days the executive producer had a two year tenure, then from season 8 or 9 it's been the same guy with no change.

Yep, agreed. I worked on two PHP codebases at a company many years ago - the "old" and the "new". The old was just frameworkless PHP with three different ways of doing controllers, partial templates with no closing tags so that they could be inserted anywhere without breaking the page, inline SQL in the templates etc. The new was hugely complicated with long inheritance chains and multiple classes with the same name but in different directories... but it was structured and you couldn't easily do anything wild.

> If in 2010 I'd know that the damn thing would die in 2021

Was it obvious back then? I had to work on an AngularJS site for a while and it was the most confusing thing ever. Having come from React I couldn't understand the complexity but maybe it was still better than callback hell in jQuery?

Angular is pretty decent in that it gives you everything you need (the concept of a page and routing, services etc) but one thing I'll give React is the simplicity of changes to attributes just triggering updates.