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The point I'm making is not "use short variables everywhere", it's that in this case , the verbose alternative is not "much more readable". Abbreviating "element" to "el" or using …

They'll figure it out. They're a programmer, figuring things out is their job .

> The more software developers there are, the easier it becomes to automate the drudgery and toil of life. By "easier", you must mean "cheaper", but I don't believe that at all. Th…

Of course, up to a point. The same goes for very long but extremely descriptive variable names. Hence, it is a tradeoff.

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Except there isn't any problem here whatsoever. Yes, it's coupled, but it doesn't matter. No, this kind of code doesn't scale. It doesn't have to . The time you spent writing this …

> It costs almost nothing more to write "event" instead of "ev" or "removeElement" instead of "remEl", but it makes the code much more readable. No, it doesn't. Unless you're an ab…

Imagine how self-important you have to be to say you can't be on the same platform as Alex Jones and therefore you must quit. The word "hateful" is used like weapon here. If only y…

> Its a good point, if you overlook the fact that the British destroying the Indian & Chinese economy (through war/invasion) created a vacuum for the US economy (British colony at …

> Russia with Putin as its leader stands in the way of American domination of Eurasia. Hence, the military encirclement of Russia and the belligerent anti-Russian rhetoric from Ame…

Military people applying their experiences to company leadership are problematic, because they worked with a selection of people that doesn't reflect the general population. In the…

People tend to have a strong urge to avoid responsibility (and therefore making decisions), that's the whole point of having superiors. If everyone's fully responsible for what the…

No, this is a permissions problem. Reading and writing to an application directory does not cause any issues until some code in that directory starts running with privileges it sho…

That's not true. I'm sometimes faced with a lot of companies to choose from and if one of those companies has a badly designed logo, I'll immediately become suspicious of all of th…

I can't remember ever having been stunned by a logo. The height of my experiences could be described as: "Oh, nice logo." or "Hmm, clever." The line between "clever" and "trying to…

So, a "feature" in the installer allows an already installed malicious app to install even more malicious apps. That new malicious app then gets to somehow have more permissions th…

Excuse me, I've been abusing others? I completely reject this description, that's bordering on libel on your part. What I have replied to here is patently untrue, so forgive me my …

Do you realize that in Canvas colors are represented as a "series of text strings" that need to be parsed? Did you know that drawing paths requires a ton of pretty expensive Javasc…

> SVG is not a part of HTML 5, it is older Maybe not formally, but making that distinction makes no difference to my point. > Canvas is as fast as the now defunct Flash ...not even…

> you're not telling us anything interesting First of all, that's a pretty condescending thing to say and you're obviously not speaking for everyone. I wouldn't mention that if you…

The difference in performance with Flash is huge, modifying the context is quite expensive, resetting it is expensive, which is problematic because it is stateful. You have to comp…

I have no idea what exactly you did, but I can't fathom how you would form such opinions from hands-on experience with both technologies. You say things like "just export to HTML5 …

That's why I said "at least in terms of propaganda". Anything that's owned by the state is considered to be owned by (all) the people. Venezuela also is not by definition a sociali…

> In modern political discourse, democratic socialism and social democracy are considered interchangeable Not at all, case in point: We are having a political discourse and people …

That's not a library, that's a demo and it takes several seconds to load, just like a flash applet would. I'm aware of minimalist things that can put stuff on-screen instantly, but…