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DeviantArt's development team is 100% remote, iirc I dunno about the rest of the company.

> With GitHub Pages, Read the Docs, and other places to host generated documentation for free

> If your documentation is generated from source code, I am immediately skeptical

Looks like another self-important troll. Those statements are just lolwhut.

I'm not going to learn (or force others to learn) a tool to read documentation. Put a /docs folder in the appropriate project directories and have the team that handles it, decide what to put in that (even if it's a URL to somewhere else).

Disregarding existing documentation because you dislike the organization/formatting is such an act of blind ignorance, I'm surprised he thinks he knows anything about it. Documentation is not a solved problem (although it's easier than testing).

> If you included all of the things needed to document a project in source, your code would be unreadable.

That's only because modern IDEs haven't implemented inline-documentation methods yet. One day we'll get companion documents with every sourcefile that will allow developers to read notes and link to associated content from orthogonal comment files.

> Totalitarianism is a political concept that defines a mode of government, which prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life

He was unabashedly and indisputably, totalitarian. The fact that he lost power eventually, is irrelevant. Every type of leader, eventually, loses power.

It's not that bad. 3 weeks means you're going to county jail (in California). 3 weeks in county is great. They feed you a bunch (5 times a day), you aren't there long enough that you are compelled to get a jail-time-job, and the weather is fair. There's a TV, books, paper, pens, cards, etc.

I would agree that it's "not a medical reality", in that it does apply only to the USA.

The article is attempting to explain the events, by characterizing them as a type of deception when it shows the exact opposite (it's not a hoax that papers are accepted on political aim, rather than evidence). It's a small detail, but telling as to the intent and voracity without knowing most the story.

> Is there a defining feature of this (or other) cyber bullying laws that make them antithetical to freedom of expression and the tools of oppressive regimes

If the law is in regard to protecting how people feel (which implicitly controls how they think), it will be used to enforce what can be said. That's the only tool you need for oppression. If it's to limit exposure to ideas, like pornography or explosive manufacture, it's ironically less oppressive because it's more objective than "how random human might feel on a given day".

It wasn't a hoax. It's a confounding detail that a meta-commentary article is employing.

> You can't be the leader of the free world by saying "I only care about my country" and expect others to follow you

There's no evidence of that. The President is a citizen figurehead (with limited powers) which has to fight a monumentally massive bureaucracy made up of other branches and citizens. Trump is not a godhead or even going to be considered important in the long run (a generation+). Curb the sensationalism.

> If you count by total lines of code running in production, then the most likely winner is probably C or COBOL

By lines of production, it's definitely Javascript. COBOL doesn't come close. What was a lot of developer time in the 80s is dwarfed by the number of people around the world working on websites alone (much less this Node.js silliness).

More Javascript is written every day than is produced in C, all year due to lower barriers to entry, lower cost to fail, easier to debug, less (possible) side effects, and number of developers.

> it has very little presence outside of user-facing applications.

That's where most code ends up getting written. SMH

>> You and the other guy calling it a compliment are either the same person, or you're both social robots

> I think throwing a veiled insult at me is ironic.

That wasn't a veiled insult, nor was it ironic, which is funny.

Exit through the gift shop

I tried this at one company. I have never gone back. It's terrible advice? You can only reconcile this as a matter of experience.

> The conclusion of the study is that high doses of antibiotics is an effective way to prevent the appendix from rupturing without surgery.

I've been through a few million dollar surgeries and I had my appendix out as well. When you get a blocked appendix (appendicitis induced), you create scar tissue from the inevitably distended bile duct. Now you have an increased chance of it occurring again, and a weaker duct (scar tissue is generally weaker). This snowballs. Removal is the safe course after the first onset. This study assumes 2 things. First, that no major damage is done over the course of appendicitis attack(s). Second, the patient is compliant with a dietary restriction and an antibiotic course. Yes, you don't NEED to have your appendix out after the first attack if you eat right. The chances that a patient is compliant is less than 50% This is just a medical reality. People who take blood thinners have to be monitored, more for compliance than anything else, and there's a whole industry to the more dangerous conditions than appendicitis.

If you can't make a base on the moon, why risk trying to make one on Mars? It's impractical from a risk perspective.

> "grieving mothers" is not sufficient.

Historically, the species that threaten humans (or are tasty to humans), gets virtually wiped out. There's nothing new or scary about the proposition. Species aren't sacred, as every species dies out and has been replaced by others, countless times for all manner of reasons. Maybe it promotes something worse. There will always be other dangers to contend with.

> Does it though?

It does more than that. It allows for a path forward/establishes a slippery slope. Now a group that is most earnestly behind the implementation of the CoC to now point to this as a tipping point where the tyranny of the majority is accepted (and can now make modifications since you already agreed to a CoC, what are some nomic modifications to you?). This runs counter to the existing, unstable hierarchy.

If you oppose a group, it's just as wrong to automagically get labeled "the other group" the first group finds most revolting.

I'm not sure what that link is supposed to explain. It does nothing to assert or rationalize a CoC, just offers up a few cloaked "whataboutisms". "Whatabout my responsibility if I have political power" is a whataboutism, with no moral reasoning (just an implication of my position is right, you just haven't thought about it enough to agree!)

When my 2k mac became unsupported after 4 years, Apple lost me permanently.

Sounds a lot like rags to riches. SMH

"habitable" is not the same as survivable. Generally the term habitable means safe for society, so while you may quibble over what exact standard to use the dangers around Chernobyl are MAGNITUDES higher than the dangers of smoking. More like guaranteeing cancer in <20 years.

> I think 9/11 may disagree

Only in the US, which is arguable. Every person in the US is affected by the 2008 events every month. 9/11 is hardly a blip in most of the US, outside of the lukewarm media attention about tangentially related eventualities.

Americans get very upset when they don't opt-in to risk and end up being exposed to violence unwittingly, but that's life. It's no more or less tragic than when you get diagnosed with cancer. 40k people die in car accidents each year. 5-10k die of a terrorist attack almost 20 years ago. It's immoral to worship one single tragedy that pales in comparison to those ongoing. I live with the solace that those who are born after 9/11 will have a saner perspective.

> GDP is a sum you can't argue with

That's tone deaf. The manipulation to change how it's calculated (always upward!), means it's a sum without meaning in every major world power.

> Is it measured in terms of that country's own currency?

No. The obvious makes that a useless measure. GDP is used, modified to ignore what government factions like to conveniently manipulate or modify. Lumping in tech stocks and pharma was the latest trick in the USA.

> no drivers or passengers killed inside it

To be fair, nobody has been killed inside any driverless car either.

> company / person

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> Therefore it is nonsense to be outraged by what Google is doing.

I think you missed an important implication, from the context.

> Google are having zero influence on <limiting> China's totalitarian government

> A lack of typing puts an upper bound on the complexity of the code that effectively limits the line-count and relegates the language to 'glue' status.

That's an opinion, not a fact.

> IMO any mechanism that shifts that time of bug catching to development rather than operations should be preferred

That's probably true of an existing product, but that's not the only concern in product development.

The acid seems to interact with torn aluminum (from the mouth of the can) to create a specific taste effect that is addictive, or preferred. My skin also would break out reliably, per can consumed (and still does when I test it out).

I switched from consuming soda from cans (and bottles) 2 decades ago. Drinking from soda fountains exclusively is more expensive at times and certainly doesn't taste as good (being a brown sugar suspension with few additives), but my skin stopped breaking out, my diabetes tests are negative, and my weight is consistent. I'm convinced it's not the soda flavor nor only the sugar nor the carbonation, but the containers and solution related to the acid. Bottled soda has all kinds of nasty effects based on how it's stored and for how long, that soured me pretty early on.