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What I don't understand is why, after twenty years, we still haven't versioned Javascript. A simple: 'v2'; At the top of every file could let us eliminate all this 20-year old cruf…

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I read the website, but I still don't get what value it's offering over Chrome? Better viewport sizing?

You have a (very common) mistaken view of what the W3C is and how it works. It is NOT an independent standards body that tells browser makers what to do! In fact, it's the exact op…

Kent Beck is just as bad as Uncle Bob! He drank his own proverbial Kool-Aid and went all in on the crazy XP programming fad he started (... which contains brilliance like requiring…

So, this is anecdotal, and it's not true at the moment (because the end of the Santa Cruz wharf just fell into the ocean, and now the clam chowder restaurants are closed), but ... …

"We also looked at different types of psychedelics and didn’t see any systematic differences there." This was the most fascinating finding to me. I really wouldn't have expected Sa…

I know it's dumb, but when a library requires me to install Yarn to install it, I think so much less of it. I just hate the idea that I have to install an entire package manager si…

It may not be dead, but it does seem a bit stagnant. Based on Google Trends at least ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... ), Elm has the same general i…

>Smartphones didn't come from a VC-backed startup. This isn't entirely correct: both Palm and Apple (the creators of the smart phone) were originally venture-backed.

The fact that the very foundation of our legal system is fundamentally undemocratic (in the sense that no regular citizen can be reasonably expected to understand it) is starting t…

This same is also known by another name when it's used to teach new programmers: pseudo code. Sadly, because it's associated with learners/juniors, pseudo code gets a bad rap. But …

In the long run, yes, but if programming were so rote and simple, we all wouldn't have jobs in the first place. Look, technology has always replaced jobs, throughout history (how m…

I don't know Cursor, but VS Code is a very full-featured editor with many years behind it; I rather doubt an upstart editor could achieve full feature parity with it so quickly. Bu…