Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
"We produced a steady cycle of layoffs and hiring," Walter lamented. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); He nonetheless survived the latest round of layoffs and found himself upgrading systems from Python 2 to Python 3. "Our vendors had stopped pretending Python 2 was still a reasonable life choice," he told The Register.
- ▪"We produced a steady cycle of layoffs and hiring," Walter lamented.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); He nonetheless survived the latest round of layoffs and found himself upgrading systems from Python 2 to Python 3.
- ▪"Our vendors had stopped pretending Python 2 was still a reasonable life choice," he told The Register.
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| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0200 |
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