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Re: comparing to jQuery. A lot of the ease and benefits depends on your style. If your code pattern was to have variables holding your state and rendering html based on that, you w…

> In retrospect it's fairly typical behaviour for less literate types to adopt a word that sounds sophisticated beyond their standard repertoire This seems an excessively negative …

> I'd say there is more transparency around unethical behavior by elected officials And that's what worries me - note in my post above I was careful to talk about "public". Before …

How many things have been aberrant and denounced, only to become the regrettable norm in the last few years? When I was a child, the US wouldn't open admit to torture. It didn't ha…

I struggle to understand the target audience for this. I'm currently crushed by lack of productivity, and overthinking is definitely a large part of the problem. But I can't just "…

> Consistent style is more important than each block of code being perfectly pretty "Pretty", yes, but we're literally talking about using language to communicate. Consistency take…

When the communication loss (visual noise) from the added static typing info is of bigger impact than benefit type safety offers you. All of which depends on a lot of variables.

Thank you! Hopefully I'll be able to property quote and cite next time now that I know.

I forget where I saw it, but I appreciate a comment that says: When faced with extreme inequality, you can redistribute wealth through taxation or you can redistribute poverty thro…

They'll find out how much of the rhetoric the company feeds them is true or not. They'll know for themselves when they deemed it important to draw a line. As a matter of calculatio…

> But why? This is my key question, and I ask with minimal assumption that either one is better. What are the criteria we are even using to judge? Clarity that there is state is on…

> Our company moved to it and its been horrible with any third party application or marketing pixel. Isn't that part of the point though? 3rd party marketing and tracking pixels ar…

The article assumes that the policymakers (and public) AREN'T considering the drawbacks. I disagree with that. Many non-US countries have acted to minimize those drawbacks, so it i…

> Customers cost money, why even have them? That certainly seems to match the customer service attitudes I've seen from many banks...

I'm not a psychologist so I should probably shut up, but I'll continue: It seems like it does hit the tech field more often, yet overwhelmingly I see leading people in tech get sof…

But until recently an unhandled promise failure was NOT a thrown error, and when it is it's not the error you want.

> if you can't explain the earlier oscillation, why should I accept the later oscillation Clearly women in the 1970s had no other obstacles - they couldn't obtain credit(!), much l…

As of this writing, a lot of comments are sharing their varied personal experiences in WFH. Which is good, because they are all more interesting and valuable than the article, whic…

Reread their comment - they are pointing out that CS classes had a DROP in women attending them, and that decline does line up with the rise of computer gaming. They weren't saying…

> 1) Women in absolute aggregate seem to not like CompSci. Based on what? They don't end up there, but we have evidence (based on decreasing enrollment in degrees) that they USED t…

You are literally describing critical thinking. To assume no one would lie, mislead, or even just be blind to their own biases is to be part of the problem. How did I "convince mys…

1) I'd argue that you arent paying much attention to those other industries. I certainly see issue commonly raised in a few you mention that are in my circles. Things that still ma…

Focusing on the idea that women are biologically "less interested" (but don't worry, we aren't talking about the good ones you may know, they are just statistical outliers) and try…

> As someone who actually read what he wrote, I just had to bite my tongue. That's not what he said at all, As someone that also read it, those arent the words he used, but that is…

I've bought my own router and had Comcast later claim it was theirs (because they collected the SN off it, and put it in their system, then later, lo and behold, the SN is in their…