vprof is also quite nice (its free) - https://github.com/nvdv/vprof

Wow, I only knew of snakeviz: https://jiffyclub.github.io/snakeviz/

Now, I would kill for the ability to compare two profiles, but putting them on two different tabs will do for now ...

Because sometimes you are expected to write working code on whiteboard. Once interviewer was typing code I wrote on laptop and interrupting me on errors he had.

Facebook Messenger also has similar feature.

Time to move to Signal I guess. Seems like they will turn WhatsApp into bloated mess like Facebook Messenger currently is.

For what it's worth, Facebook's Messenger Lite app is really light on bloat, although it's not officially available in the US.

Interesting - hadn't heard of that one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.m...

>This app is incompatible with all of your devices.

:'( Why do they feel this is a useful thing to do?

Not available in Australia either - I guess there's always apkmirror.

I'm always surprised people use WhatsApp at all. It consistently puts messages out of order or doesn't include them all together.

Granted, this is mostly me using it from the web ui, but it happens almost once a session.

edit: I'm not knocking it specifically, just saying i'm surprised it's so popular - for me it has common issues with basic functionality (above).

Here in brazil, people use whatsapp because of the MASSIVE network effect.

FTFY: Time to move to Wire I guess.

Time to move to [new flavour of the month messaging app]

The hard thing to do is to make other people change to or install your new IM as well.

IIRC WSL is still in beta.

Looks great!

I won't switch from Mac anytime soon, but competition is always good. Can't wait to see how Apple will respond to latest Microsoft actions (WSL, Surface Book and Surface Studio).

if it responds. apple looks more and more like a luxury goods company and the things you mention aren't that. (not saying it won't, but i'm pretty sure 'how' isn't a certainty.)

Python is compiled language.

Python can be compiled, interpreted, or translated into smoke signals and reconstituted on the other side of the valley. It is not per se any of these things.

That is technically correct, but not useful for the conversation...

No it's not. That's like (and I know this has been said again and again) that "War and Peace" is a hardcover book. It's a non-sequitur.

[deleted]

You've got that backwards. The foundation owns the corporation.

Hopefully they won't show ads in Messenger Lite.

Why should they rewrite everything if it works for them?

> Similar to turning off the GC in the JVM

It's absolutely not the same. The JVM uses GC for all object collection. Python uses reference counting and only relies on GC to clean up cycles.

It does. They're profitable even with fairly small engineering team considering size of their user base.

> turning off the GC in the JVM

very common in the HFT world