The intern who did it didn't know better and it's cheaper to spend hundred of thousands on Microsoft rather than project past the next few years since whoever is in charge will be gone by then.
Welcome to the work world, where inefficiency is only problematic when it shows up on an Excel sheet.
Did you even read the article?
The amount of people nitpicking about the brand of pseudocode or arguing the question is tricky reminds me of some coworkers, and not the good kind.
If you belong to the above category, try to learn some new programming language / read about some algorithm descriptions (not implementation) and go out take some sun. The question is super intuitive if you're not stuck to a single paradigm or language.
I didn't bother reading much of your comment, but businesses obviously already need to detect which countries users come from. I'm sure you can come up with at least one reason on your own.
Yup. Just moving between German and French websites can be a pain in the ass. Default filters in shops, prices with or without taxes displayed first for professional things, different menus etc. They can be different in the most subtle ways, which is way worse imo.
Don't get me started on websites who think they know better than you which website you'd like to visit. Stop redirecting me based on my IP or language settings! OK now I'm just venting sorry
They have a contract with their employer, though. The problem here is not contracting, it's this stupid at-will employment that allows this to happen
And then you realise the program doesn't crash when compiling with debug symbols 😢
We want diversity... Wait no not like that!
Every job you mean, of course anything you do at work is your company's property.
A filter for USA centric posts / community / instances
It's not about the fee itself, it's about finding a developer. And when it's easier to tinker with a technology rather than another one...
Didn't have a work phone at my last job in France, but in Germany I've seen a few companies offer between Samsung and Apple
If your customer has write access to a production system, I'm not sure they're the most irresponsible here.