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God my life would be so much easier if I could just choose which half of America the jury pool came from.

I have to wonder: Have we gone too far? Is TypeScript becoming more tedious than helpful? Has React lost its way in its blind zeal for pure functions? ...no, no, definitely not. Mu…

Of course, it absolutely HAS to be a nation-state. There's just no way anybody not being paid millions of dollars could possibly break their ironclad blah blah whatever you get it

I mean, Sam Altman seems like a great guy. I hope everyone learned a lot from this comment, as we always do from people agreeing with each other.

That's irrelevant to what Linus is saying. He's not saying "this is good code, but only with the caveat that it's written in C and run in the Linux Kernel". He's saying that changi…

DVORAK users might have something to say about that, you insensitive clod!

Is spelling "zero" as "xero" a pun I don't get?

My concern is that people might get too complacent with libraries that claim to make CSS local, and people might get lazy and all start using the exact same "generate a unique id" …

Because it's more than six months old, and therefore totally obsolete.

An ineffable truth of webdev is that it is constantly disrupted by morons who claim to have an improvement, but really just want as many people as possible to use something THEY bu…

That's a pretty big freakin thing to leave out, though. Code that depends on its context is, some would say, bad.

Good to know Paul Graham is still writing poorly thought-out articles. That guy's Lisp code must be a nightmare.

Here's my general thought, in a year we will all be singing the praises of something else, and my fellow webdevs will continue to mistake "different" for "better".

In other words, instead of doing it the standard, commonly-accepted way, the author did it his own way, and it ended up being worse.

No, seriously, why would anyone even care that they're "inspired"? Icons are not supposed to communicate aesthetic wonder or make you think about life, they're supposed to indicate…

Part of it is probably that people get defensive concerning anything on which they've spent a large amount of time and effort.

I don't get how articles like these get reposted so often - this article is from 2019, for god's sake. If you're interested in the state of the city budget, Covid-19 combined with …

I was very, very obsessed with Haskell for about 9 months, during which time I attempted to make a very simple web app at least 5 times. I like debugging, but I just flat-out could…

Man, whatever you're working on must be incredibly interesting and difficult to necessitate a language with the advanced tools necessary to translate even the most abstract of thou…

They just have to establish a history of suing people for using that word because part of keeping your copyright is showing that you have fought for it in court.

I call it Promo-Driven Development. You have to launch things to get promoted at Google, but you're not going to get demoted for transferring to a better project afterward.

> My main argument -- which I think is being lost here -- is that Ocaml isn't IDE unfriendly, and especially not so unfriendly that an entirely new language is needed just so that …