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> Also, go to church. It's this attitude why I don't want to: using imperatives in places that abhor imperatives, as if non-churchgoes are stray children, lacking the facilities to…

> it took me about 3 minutes to rectify my "for fun" scraper. Did you mean to say "rectify" as in "fix/adjust"? It sounds like you might have meant "reify" – as in, "create" – but …

In case you don't do this already: You can use Bandcamp Downloader [ https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader ] to download the artist's music – including any or all albums and …

> Being capable of intelligence and being intelligent are not necessarily the same thing. My argument was against what I saw as a notion that human beings must always express the i…

> Except we're supposed to be intelligent. I don't think we are. We sure as hell can be. Seeing bright minds at work is a special kind of inspiration, and its own mental turn-on fo…

> Humans in general are pretty shitty That's a sentiment I never understood. I'm not to deny your feelings, or claim that my view is somehow superior. It's been my observation, how…

"Sorry". Jesus. Sure .

> In theory, formal language instruction is precisely the right way to learn a new language. Surely that's not true: otherwise, children wouldn't have learned their native tongue(s…

> 1MB just isn't good enough for a reasonable image. That didn't make sense to me: the small (~700px wide) images I have in the library are all 50±20kB. I went to Pexels, which hos…

That's fair. My experience with Medium has so far ranged from neutral to highly-positive, with a lot of articles on cutting-edge web design technology or methodology. If you don't …

My solution was to use an extension – Make Medium Readable Again – that, as of its features, removes the intro fullscreen ad. It's available for Chrome and Firefox, as far as I'm a…

Just because it's easy to get rid of, doesn't mean it should be there in the first place. There's a lot more to say about such practices, but that's the gist of it.

Is there still a concern about the profit? I'm assuming you're working for a for-profit company, where one of the goals – if not the goal, ultimately – is to make cash. (I don't me…

I suspect it has to do with connotations. When you hear "heavy" as used to describe something, you automatically assume it to mean negative. "Half is heavy" has a more negative con…

> Except Ukrainians and Russians are the same people I don't think that's for either of us to declare. I'm at least quarter-Ukrainian from my father's side (I think my parental gra…

What would entering a union mean for the developer? I've read that it would increase their protection (legal, and sometimes financial, I suppose?), and that it's supposed to improv…

Not "someone working 20 hours a day", but someone with enough dedication, discipline, and experience to work 20 hours a day sometimes because the workload is massive, and the pay i…

> It never was a country on its own until 1992 That's beside the point. Right now, there's a growing nationalist sentiment growing in Ukraine. If you go to Ukraine and shout this h…

Sure. "My name is Bond. James Bond."

I was referring to the anti-Russian sentiment brewing in both countries. Russia has, after all, engaged in a military conflict with Georgia on behalf of South Ossetia in 2008. The …

Thank you.

Referring to Georgia as a "former Soviet Republic" is similar in tone to calling Ukraine "a historic part of Russia". There were both what they've been called, sure, but given the …

Like I said: you get what you give.

Thanks. I like what you named the syndrome.

The reason I disliked Arnold Schwarzenegger's biography, Total Recall , was that it white-washed his path in life. It's clear now that he's been a successful businessman, with grea…