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IMO that's an explicitly different issue than a comparison between Promises/async/await and Ruby's metaprogramming, though. Not to mention that part of the issue with Promises is t…

Promises/async/await seem very different than Ruby's (and Rails') metaprogramming to me. I'd need an example of a cryptic stack trace to know exactly what you're referring to--half…

Couldn't disagree more, but I think you're taking the term "magic" too literally. There is a ton of magic in Rails. It consists primarily of magic. I've been doing Rails since Ruby…

DI/IoC is a separate thing from the ecosystem; the benefits are just as strong in JS or Ruby--it's just that in JS/Ruby some of the benefits aren't as noticeable because of languag…

> Python already exists as a dynamically-typed server language. Ruby isn't new; it's only slightly younger than Python, and brought things to the table. Rails and Django are roughl…

* http://www.govtech.com/data/People-Counting-Cameras-Are-Watc... * https://www.fastcompany.com/3025926/one-company-is-trying-to... * https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/new-ways-of-c…

Of those three? Python. Why? Lots of stuff built in or well-known. But it's almost entirely irrelevant: reasonable companies will either (a) expect you to code in the language they…

Winter is coming.

I don't know why not; IIRC FireWire was LVDS (4+m), and LVDS doesn't specify ("care about") distance, just loss between driver and receiver. I vaguely recall lossless transmissions…

Trivial hacking is probably unlikely. Vehicles generally use CAN bus, but whether or not the camera data is available on the bus... I have my doubts, but if it's there, that'd be p…

I disagree. This doesn't "diminish the person's feelings", it's saying that feelings aren't always relevant. Not being motivated is part of life. If something must be done motivati…

Knowledge is good. You may not have meant the onus on women--but to me it really sounded like it. By saying "women need to know what works" (again, to me ) it sounds like "women ne…

> Your remarks here strongly suggest my conclusion was spot on. I believe it suggests what I said in the comment above: you're putting the onus on women to "know what works" instea…

But it is more or less what you said: > [...] women need to know what works and what doesn't. I think men and women need to not treat people as sex objects regardless of how they d…

If it's necessary then motivation is irrelevant. You don't have to be motivated, you have to work. Your problem isn't motivation, it's not understanding that not all work is, or ne…

... By writing, like you said. It's no more complicated than that. That you're asking this here leads me to believe there's some unknown (to me) internal resistance holding you bac…

Hrm.

I suppose it'd depend on the definitions of "great" and "work". Original moon shots? Latex? In general, once you reach a critical mass of code, it stops being "great" and starts be…

This brings back memories... One of the greatest heads-down hacking I did was back in the day, running some variant of Common Lisp, working myself through Koza's _Genetic Programmi…

That's redundant; all marketing is designed to manipulate the psyche of its targets.

Why would it go up more than 25% for 25% more hours? Did you mean the 22% you stated originally? If you work 25% more, you should make 25% more, seems pretty simple.

They do--they don't have a backspace key. But they mean backspace.

Yes, but not all keyboards have it (e.g., Apple) and you have to combo to get DEL.

Meh; I do freelance copy-editing and transcription, and I never use it.