The OP, who had already done the task before, took more than an hour to complete it.

Ok, that doesn't bode well for the op.

Note, I haven't used C in 15 years, have never looked at memcached code and in fact the last time I used memcached was before redis even existed.

It took me ~26 mins which included reading the article, googling the memcached repo, downloading all dependencies, compiling a first build, grepping for references to incr and adding mult with support for negative arguments, refactoring the guts of incr into two functions to support the changes, compiling, fixing a few compiler bugs then testing, given a few more minutes I'd probably be able to get it PR ready with a full test suite.

I think their point was that number of people who use nix is a rounding error, perhaps due to poor user experience.

Not quite, openapi doesn't interact with variables and can't contain scripts or assertions.

Pretty much what Flyway does.

'Just'

Most people in this forum possess the skills and education necessary to get a skilled workers visa. So yes, just.

Yeah they're educated enough to know what a 50% pay reduction looks like.

Around me most attendees are people looking for a job, with zero engagement in any other way.

I did _one_ virtual meetup. After the presentation we were paired into small breakout rooms. Two of the four guys in my room just gave a quick summary of their background and said they were looking for work -- they had nothing else to say.

(a) it ruined the networking time for everyone else and (b) if I had an opening, I'd be less likely to interview them than before.

i haven't been in this particular situation, but people who don't know what to say are all to common. i am not the most sociable guy myself, but i learned to get people talking by asking lots of question, searching for common interests, or simply anything interesting about them. it is a lot of work though, and after such conversations i tend to be exhausted. the irony is that if they didn't want to talk, but get me talking instead, all they would need is to ask a few open questions and then i'd be able to fill the space.

The other participant and I had a pleasant conversation, but the dynamic was weird for the other two who basically said "give me work" without saying anything else.

that sounds frustrating.

Please do read a bit about history of TCP and how latency impacts the overall throughout. It's a classic thing and applies to any processing where you need results of some steps to proceed.

Why wouldn't it be?

You can't just live in the US as a reason living in the EU.

It adds a huge amount of complexity due to those limitations, and unlike writes, you can handle reads off of read replicas, as they did.