On: Software Engineering at Google

[thedance]

Definitely. Being an SRE with C++ readability, for example, is like a permanent employment guarantee.

I'd like to acknowledge the brilliance of people who name their code files "foo.javascript" to avoid having to get JS readability.

[shaftway → thedance]

I'd lump them into the category of people who would make production code depend on things in experimental to get around code reviews.

[thedance → shaftway]

I’m pretty sure that will trigger reviewed-and-submitted code audits for any role that handles PII. Don’t want the HN-reading public to get the wrong impression.