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Here's what you do: Gather as many friends as you can and get an idea of where the toilet is when the room is vacant. Wait off to the side until the restroom is occupied, ideally b…

On my first submission to this site, I acted like an asshole in the comments section to reciprocate the attitude of the comments I got. My opinionated tone earned me more points, w…

> "Technology needs to empower people to manage people. Software should not manage people." I agree, in a way. The only communities I have seen that associates numbers with human m…

> "Objectivism is objectively the greatest system of Philosophy ever put together up until now." Please. Objectivism draws no clear distinction between self-interest and self-worsh…

> "Being given incorrect information, and making mistakes, and not knowing you've made mistakes, is not a useful learning technique." W3Schools has pointed out that users take a ri…

> "Which is quite likely to be when their customers' data..." Who would hire someone who only has W3Schools knowledge? Are we really worried about them?

> "Wordpress is great, though, because anyone can set it up and use it. Anyone." Nothing is wrong with choosing an easy to use tool for the kinds of requirements clearly described …

> "How are people supposed to know that they need to go and find a separate security tutorial (and not a W3Schools one, they don't have one)?" Whenever they realize they don't unde…

The problem is nuance, which involves all those little wow-I-wish-I-knew-THAT tidbits that students never learn about until a forum member or colleague hollers at them. Languages c…

Yes! Thank you.

I did. I am fully aware of the inaccurate content I ran with from w3schools, which is why I corrected myself. That does not change the fact w3schools was there when I needed a sour…

Maybe not, but I can still appreciate them and remember what they offered.

> "I think the author is about 7 years too late..." If Hacker News participants ran the world no one would care about history. We can discuss things that happened in the past. It s…

I came out of it just fine. Satan had some good contacts.

I agree with everything but the last bit. If you throw away the ladder, doesn't that represent forgetting the information that actually helped you?

Oo! I like the system, but beginners wouldn't know what to do there. By that I mean, they would not learn much there without prior knowledge.

Forgive me for appreciating what helped me grow. > "Your point seems to be that w3schools has a special place in your heart. Okay." Yep.

The age of what is being talked about does not determine the relevance of the conversation and what it entails.

> "That's the point of w3fools: w3s is not reliable..." This unreliable (albeit crystal-clear) source did not stop me from scoring a good portfolio and happy clients ( http://linkd…

> "you seem to be posting snippy responses to everyone's comments here" Sorry about that. It is not my intention to be rude or troll, but I've got a lot of discussions to manage. I…

> "Not necessarily, and bad code can make dangerous tutorials." W3Schools is not responsible for what devs do, and safe code means introducing more concepts that can leave the scop…