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Today, roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At this rate, SARS-CoV-2 will be the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023—about triple the threat of influenza.

Are We Still in a COVID-19 Emergency?

Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist

Roy Simmons coined that phrase and I like it a lot. “Most artists can’t draw.” We need to add something: “But all artists can see.”

Linchpin

Seth Godin

So here are the benefits of inheritance: • Unlike composition, you can pass the subclass into functions expecting the parent class. • Unlike interfaces, you can reuse code from the parent class in the child class. So, here’s when you want to use inheritance: **when you need to instantiate both the parent and child classes and pass them to the same functions.** That’s it. That’s the use case.

When to Prefer Inheritance to Composition

Hillel Wayne

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