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I disagree with some of what you say, but I think your last point is correct. >you yourself may be mistaken in your JS criticism It should be easy to verify I'm not. `__proto__` is…

Pure functions, polymorphism, inheritance, composition, factory functions, classes... All of those are tools. They have benefits and drawbacks that are circumstantial (they depend …

There is no judgment in what I said. DK is a fact of life and we will all experience it at some point. I know I have, and quite badly. I wish when I was younger someone had told me…

There is a lot of wrong in this article: inability to articulate what polymorphism is, misunderstanding of prototypes, bad JS practices (`var`, `.__proto__`), falsehoods on program…

This is a nitpick but regarding "strong AI" and "weak AI", I take issue with the use of those expressions to refer to actual software systems, or to sub-domains of AI research. Tho…

Hi, good-looking site, I hope this works out! Adding to this [1] bug report, when I change pages using the numbered buttons at the bottom of the issues listing and then press the B…

This is a false dichotomy. GP did not suggest a planned economy as a solution, and more generally a planned economy is not the only alternative to wanton capitalism where governmen…

But GP, despite using the word "cool", is not really talking about how "cool" in a light sense those occupations are perceived. They explicitly talk about how some activities today…

>I always advocate against opt-outs for security features like this [...] Because most users are not capable of evaluating the impact of opting out of a security process. I agree f…

I’m French and when I interviewed at a company abroad they had the usual US layout keyboards which made typing hard. I think the experience of everyone involved would have been smo…

I'm a non-native English speaker and I used to struggle as a teenager to read e.g. Harry Potter in English with a dictionary by my side. Literature is full of words you will never …

The author states what he feels is holding native apps back: they’re harder to build in a cross-platform way and they have to be installed. Then the author discusses the current st…

I'm afraid France Télécom didn't just give their employees "nothing to do", they actively made their employees' work life hell and harassed them psychologically, resulting in 35 su…

This phenomenon is called a "Jespersen's cycle" according to Wiktionary. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cycle_de_Jespersen Also according to Wiktionary, "guère" is unrelated to "gu…

I see where you're coming from. I sometimes get that feeling too. The way I approach this is by asking myself if the author could have expressed their ideas with simpler words or i…

I think the author simply uses the vocabulary of his field, and he tries to communicate effectively with it. As a consequence, his language is terse and full of references to conce…

I think in the context of the author's field, an enlarged definition of the notion of "propositions" is adopted whereby a proposition is a useful statement about the real world, di…