and his customers?

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

An accidental consequence of political competition for donor money and votes

And war. You buy a lot of war.

first as tragedy, then as farce

if your frontend is interrogating the jwt you're doing it wrong

Isn't it pretty common to read the expiration so you know when to refresh tokens?

It is, among other things like username or user e-mail address.

This is also, together with backend scalability, a major selling point for JWTs. Otherwise one might just as well use regular session ids in cookies.

I, for one, enjoy not needing to coordinate an encryption key between my service and my IdP.

I also enjoy not worrying about how the next field I add to my JWT can be exploited after a base64 decode :-)

Gimme Shelter (the film) has some good footage from these sessions.

> They already enforce other practices top down like hiring etc, so if they had data saying that mandating Scrum would make the company X% more efficient they would absolutely do it.

lol, as if their top-down hiring practices are at all driven by concerns for company efficiency.

Why do you think otherwise? The whole reason they do it is that they looked at other big companies and noticed that everyone ended up with mediocre workforces after a while, so they did this to avoid that scenario. Then as they grew bigger they could hire a lot of data people to analyse different methods and see how well different things works to optimize further. When you spend tens of billions on engineering salaries at a data driven company you will do that.

> You don't bother to list new principles if you're already living up to them.

ah, ok, now Don't Be Evil makes more sense

Don't Be Evil wasn't a new principle. It was a foundational one, on which the company grew.

That's why it was scrapped, and the following new principles were listed:

* Respect the opportunity (wtf?)

* Respect the user (lol)

* Respect each other (ahahaha)

Hope it makes sense now :)

Don't Be Evil was always on the cynical, "words over actions" side.

It wasn't always that way. It's had a pretty good run.

Fun fact: they scrapped that motto without fanfare just around the time the company went full speed towards where it's going now.

Google hasn't listed Don't Be Evil as a principle in many years now.

thanks for this