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What to do when a client asks for something unreasonable (from my point of view)

I’m a freelance programmer and recently I finished a website, it all works fine but there was one user that complained to my client that he couldn’t log in. This problem was clearly a cookie-restriction/old browser one (I couldn’t create the problem myself and hunderds of users are working with the website just fine)

“Too object-oriented”

I come from a strong OO background, and I have recently started working in an organization which, although the code is written in Java, has a lot less emphasis on good OO design than what I am used to. I have been told that I introduce “too much abstraction”, and that I should instead code the way it has always been done, which is a procedural style in Java.

Does data size in TCP/UDP make a difference on transmission time

While discussing the development of a network component for our game engine, a member of our team suggested that transmitting either 500 bytes or 1k of data using UDP makes no difference from performance perspective of the system (the time it takes to transmit the data).