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What you say is very true. Furthermore, there's no guarantee that code associated with somebody's GitHub account was actually written by that individual. It's useless to gauge the …

If that misconception is the "only one thing" you know about getting a certification, then why do you feel it appropriate to comment on the process? You don't need to buy the books…

That approach could have unintended consequences, though. A department could just cut back on the services they provide, in order to cut back on their spending, to stay well within…

What you propose may sound great and easy in theory, but in practice it's usually a huge disaster. The truly useful code of the application will quickly become overwhelmed by the c…

Wouldn't your own personal pre-peer-review review have caught that?

We may not use GNOME today, but many of us did happily use it before the GNOME 3 disaster. After that happened, though, we had no choice but to move to other environments. Some of …

That's sort of a useless distinction to make, in practice. If jQuery isn't usable as-is, then it could very well be said that this problem is at least partially due to using jQuery…

There was no SQL Server 2003. Do you mean 2005?

That platform already exists. It's the "platform" that naturally happens when there aren't any "app stores" or "app marketplaces", and when devices aren't artificially crippled to …

What makes you think that "no one had objections about Apple and Amazon doing so"? Lots of people did. Lots of people have been quite vocal in their dislike of the so-called "walle…

The universal behavior is to consistently behave inconsistently?

I think that you may be vastly overestimating the number of web and mobile app developers. They're still a relatively small proportion of all software developers. While web develop…

There's nothing "snarky" about pointing out stupidly and inexcusably broken programming language features.

The people you refer to as "haters" are usually just professional software developers. As professionals, they don't stand for the unjustifiable inferiority exhibited thoroughly by …

I wouldn't say that Crockford really "explored JavaScript's good parts". Rather, he just covered parts of JavaScript that shouldn't be used, and whatever wasn't completely broken w…

A bad programming language that remains bad for nearly two decades isn't really any better, in my opinion, than a bad language that undergoes some change that may have mixed result…

I wouldn't say so. It's far, far closer to a functional programming language than JavaScript is, for instance. But it's clearly nowhere near what Haskell or Standard ML are, either…

Syntax is highly important, however. A poor syntax can make an otherwise decent language quite unbearable. A nice syntax doesn't make an otherwise poor language good, either.

Support for higher-order functions is obviously a minimal requirement of a "functional programming language". But functional programming extends far, far beyond that. It also embod…

Is that really a good comparison? The PHP code you linked to is basically a class with a bunch of getters and setters. The Python code, on the other hand, handles numerous real-wor…

Not every Python user uses Django, you know. I've worked on a number of software systems at several different organizations that have very effectively used Python 3 for years now. …

Enough with the "JavaScript is a functional language" myth, please. Merely having first-class functions does not make a language a functional programming language. JavaScript does …

Deprecation of those awful vendor specific DB extensions is a good start, no doubt. But those are library functions, rather than language features. Another thing to consider is tha…

What you say is very true. PHP is in the same boat that JavaScript is in. Their very severe, yet very inherent, language flaws just cannot be covered up with one library or framewo…

Languages like Haskell and Python being suitable for many applications in no way changes the fact that there are many other situations where they would not be suitable, and a langu…