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Yes, I know. That doesn't make an assertion about the "pitfalls" of `self` less muddy. It's literally a variable. It's a code smell too, but that's another conversation. Are we cal…

Throw in "toxic" and you win 2018 (2019?) buzzword bingo.

Good luck doing OOP in JS without `this` with minimal contortions. And to be clear, there is no `self` in JS.

OOP is scary, might have to learn stuff.

Not with such confidence to say things like "we are in the early days of decay."

What's it like being able to see into the future?

DAE mind blown by imprecision in float arith? Edit: Down-Voters go ahead and explain the LIE that is computer accuracy in the face of the linked demonstration. Computers, can't tru…

You sincerely believe that tax revenue would be lost to waste and graft with no benefit to the poor? Higher taxes sting me as much as the next USAer, but I think you're being obtus…

If you're commuting in a Lyft/Uber, you're part of the problem. That aside, for better or worse, most of us city-dwellers are numbed to shocking! displays of hard drug use.

I'm talking about the flat namespace.

Clojure's stdlib is unintuitive, and `into` is the poster child. It's easy to find what's available in Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.3/Enumerable.html Good luck with Clojure:…

Your kids might learn to spell an un-American name like Kwame if you raised them around those scary poor people.

The State Department is a Slack user so there's that. https://apps.gov/products/Slack/

As an antimarzipanner I was hoping to learn that its production harms the oceans or something along those lines.

As user I dislike AMP because it adds a JavaScript requirement to read articles that don't have any JavaScript. There, I said it.

Eventually, cognitive decline will win the day and I will be confused by simple use of conditional operators. Until then, I'm with you pal.

Yea but it's written in JavaScript.

Out of curiosity, for how long have you been using Linux as a daily driver?

youtube-dl is on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/

Six month old blogspam, but all it takes is a baiting title to hit the front page here. Hurr durr Oracle, hurr durr Java!

I don't want somebody shooting for any reason on the BART.

> Instead of a well-designed data store, OOP projects tend to look like a huge spaghetti graph of objects pointing at each other and methods taking long argument lists. Uh, what? F…