If no-one reinvented the wheel we'd still be driving around in horse and carriages, the analogy applies to software engineering today more than ever. When this was written MomentJS was a 100KB-150KB dependency and has since been deprecated so that wouldn't have been good advice to anyone. Since this post was written there's now a modern web-standard to convert timezones with toLocaleString into another date constructor I'll update the answer that is an answer to my own question 4 years ago. — Shanon Jackson 37 secs ago

Honestly, you'd better find a [freelancer/relevant tech people in your company/software engineer studios] if all you want is throwing a prototype at people then enjoy the result. — MMZK1526 20 secs ago

Open letter to students with homework problems — matszwecja 19 secs ago

Check out:One-liners vs. readability: when to stop reducing code?. Example in Ruby but implications apply to languages in general. Claims: "No matter what code you write, readable is best. Short is second best. And readable usually means short enough so you can make sense of the code, well named identifiers, and adhering to the common idioms of the language in which the code is written." — DarrylG 5 secs ago

Please update the indentation of your code. Python is very sensitive to indentation, as are python programmers. — quamrana 53 secs ago

Hyphens are not allowed in JavaScript names. Underscores: Many programmers prefer to use underscores — GrafiCode 1 min ago

If you ask 10 programmers for suggestions, you'd get about 12.7 opinions. Also, the goto is no less "right now". The kernel typically doesn't do error handling, in so much as resource cleanup. If an error is encountered, a status is set, an error is printed and the function goes to the point where cleanup should proceed. In the case of no errors, the status is 0 and the function falls through all the labels and cleans up the resources it allocated in reverse order to acquiring them. — StoryTeller - Unslander Monica 45 secs ago

Well, I tried to enter a number in seconds as the test informed but I dont really get whats the supposed output of the function, that's why I dont really know what to expect. I was hoping more experienced python programmers would ched a light on it so I could work around it — Stiven Lancheros 33 secs ago

When asking questions like this about any programming language, you should not ask whether something may change from machine to machine but whether it may change from one implementation of the programming language to another. Two different programmers may implement Python on the same machine, even the same platform including operating system and compiler and build tools, down to exactly the same versions, but implement floating-point arithmetic within Python differently, and so they could make sys.float_info.max different in their two implementations. — Eric Postpischil 50 secs ago

@Marc we're an early stage project trying to help people to use our product. A frictionless (or as-little-friction-as-possible) install helps people actually try the product. Sure, some people get through the current install instructions. But we suspect a lot tear their hair out and give up before then. (Our target users are are not primarily software engineers.) — aemw 26 secs ago

its perfectly reasonable. This question seems more like a code style question than trying to solve a specific problem. softwareengineering.stackexchange.com — JBaczuk 56 secs ago

I'm fairly sure this will be closed as not-the-right-forum (maybe software engineering overflow?), but you probably need to include more specifics on the why and what context you're doing this in. Why go through the trouble of all this if they can make calls to a secure API using an RPC implementation? Are you hardware limited or otherwise limited in how this is deployed? Why go the route of trying to awkwardly split what is running where? Seems like you're looking for a complicated answer to something that has easier solutions. — Nathaniel Ford 52 secs ago

So...is "no encounter" the only way to avoid undefined behavior in C? If it is then how do other programmers program? It's confusing...but thanks to you all anyways. 😄 — Pseudo 49 secs ago

We're not just going to do your homework. Try something, and we can help you with a concrete issue you've run into. See the Open letter to students with homework problems — Alexander 1 min ago

Please update the indentation of your code. Python is very sensitive to indentation, as are python programmers. — quamrana 22 secs ago

The "billion dollar mistake": I doubt it was a mistake. One time I started watching probably an hour-long video of the guy explaining his mistake. Probably about 20 minutes in, he still hadn't begun giving an explanation, and I didn't spend any more time on it. The problem is not the concept of null: that's obviously a very meaningful item, which is conceptually very different from values like "" and -1. The problem is that programmers need to learn to do their jobs. If they can't handle the concept of null, they probably can't handle much of anything else in programming either. — Panzercrisis just now

Yep, but when we recommend minimizing use of new, simply leaving out the new is not what we intended. — user4581301 49 secs ago

@shevy Every change to Java, every "different" way to solve a problem has to be now learned and memorized by millions of programmers. Although the language should (and does) evolve, each change has a cost that can easily be overlooked. If it seems that easy to you, why don't you just move to Kotlin? My guess is that the deep-down answer (The reason behind all the other reasons) is that Java is stable and doesn't change much. — Bill K 59 secs ago