google analytics is bad
this is the appeal of Zoom, to me, almost as an anti-silicon valley company: they took a bad product and just made it good.
When Not to Use an Enum
If you’re not switching over an enum, then you’re using it for its properties. We have a better tool for value types with properties: structs.
“Enums are for switching. If you aren’t going to switch over a value—outside of the type—then use a struct.”
“Enums are for switching. If you aren’t going to switch over a value—outside of the type—then use a struct.”
Goodbye, Google
When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative effects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions. But I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.