OtterCoder

It's debatable in the US too.

Now that's a good suggestion. Social pressure is a perfectly valid means of retribution that doesn't require the overwhelming threat of the law.

Using the law to enforce a point is always equivalent to the use of physical force. The law simply provides such a vast weapon that the party in the wrong must back down or die.

If you wouldn't be willing to hold a gun to someone's head to make them change their actions, then you shouldn't call the police.

Perhaps replace it with "body"? That has strong sexual and romantic connotations in English while also being tasteful.

Alternately, "flower" or something more metaphorical. English poets tend to avoid the genitalia directly. We often follow the Nordic tradition of calling a spade anything but a spade.

MaxisSimRules.pdf is a gold mine of distilled wisdom all by itself.

We pride ourselves on being unbeholden, but it's mostly self-deception. Take a look at this, and realize that even in the west, we aren't that far removed in the way our power structures operate.

https://aeon.co/essays/this-is-what-slavery-looks-like-today...

Your translation is definitely crude, but I'm completely fascinated by it.

I think it speaks to the part of hipster-ism that people react so strongly against. Why enjoy things 'ironically', or spend the effort becoming a connoisseur and a snob when you should really just enjoy things on a basic level. Like what you like, and rejoice in it.

I would agree with Pavlov. I would also say that Rust is a much more disruptive and interesting language from a technical perspective. Node is simply another iteration on quick prototyping languages, like Ruby before it. There's not a lot of new stuff to say about its design. Projects built in node show up in the feed all the time though.

I certainly refuse to log back in to Facebook unless they pay me.

I would agree with Xenopticon, as a solo operator, it's been a huge boon. However, I have noticed a bit of a split in the way I code.

The problem is that I tend to write two kinds of JS. On the server I write ES7 and use currying, iteration, and promises as the main paradigm, while on the client side code I tend to write more compatible, imperative, event oriented code.

It's a bit of a bizarre split, and it does impact my productivity. Perhaps I would be better off using Babel, but I tend to avoid adding steps to my toolchain, since I'm the only one who will maintain it.

I did, in fact, read the link, and I'm reacting to the condescending language used throughout. The unspoken attitude in the article is that the employee is a dirty traitor and a fool for wanting to move on. 'Shields down' is a telling choice of words because the manager feels that the employee is protected by being his. It's a patronizing, parental sort of attitude towards employees that irks me to no end.

To pull another quote:

  "If I’m sitting here talking with you it means two things: I don’t want you to leave and, to the best of my knowledge, you didn’t want to leave either but here you are leaving."

Here he's either assuming he can read the minds of his employees, or that his employees should share every dissatisfaction and stray thought with him. Hyperbole, perhaps, but not by much. I don't want a nosy dad for a boss.

I hate this approach to management. Why should I be "shielded" from a better opportunity? That only protects my manager, and gives me no valuable protection.

Additionally, they go over this explicitly in the Adam West Batman movie. The press demands to know Batman's identity and credentials, and the commissioner backs him up by saying that Batman's anonymity was for his own safety, and that he had been duly deputized.

Who's to say what a neutral state is? And what mysterious conspiracy is holding back the admission office of universities and HR departments across the globe? I just think you're fighting ghosts.

Additionally, I don't buy that employing 100% of women is actually helpful. Children need a parent at home, and a mother makes more sense for younger children. We should be working towards decentralization of work, and allowing dads and moms to both have more time in the home, rather than racing to lock the entire human race in a cubicle.

So, autism diagnosis is based on whether or not you can parse an optical illusion? What kind of over-diagnosis fad-medicine quackery is this? When did personality types become diseases? Sure, there are some people with real mental illness who need help to function in society, but I think it's actively harmful to slap a pathology on someone who's not as sociable as others in a moderate way.

But why is it even a goal? I don't think the world is any better or worse off for having any particular ratio of genders in tech. Just let the cards fall as they will.

Like they already do?

Yes, but I was talking to a British fellow.

According to WolframAlpha, the hottest temp on record in Cairo is 118°F, while Phoenix, AZ has hit 123°F. Even the average high is 5°F higher in Phoenix.

Remember, the south of the US is in the subtropics, roughly level with the north of Africa. Imagine living in Egypt and not running the AC constantly.

And that doesn't take skill?

I run a private git repo and anywhere between 0-6 additional instances and lambdas for development and testing. I haven't gone over $50 in a month.

No need for ajax/fetch. You can calculate that in the browser with the data in your plain, static HTML.

I have exactly zero interest in a cloud based IDE. If I'm writing code for clients, and I want it accessable remotely, I'm darn well going to host it on servers I control.

That's metalwork in general. A friend of mine worked in a copper mill as an engineering intern and he told me all kinds of horror stories like having to clear out a chimney with a shotgun and scraping several tons of copper off the floor.

Marko components are lovely. I've used a lot of off-brand and mainstream template engines, and few have delivered on the promise of composability as cleanly and nicely.

I think you underestimate the sheer mass of water.

Oh please. Most missionaries return with a real love for their assigned countries, languages, and cultures. Just because you disagree with their beliefs, you don't have to dehumanize them.

Sorry, no. Clients can be responsible for themselves. All I care about is providing unambiguous, standardized data to everyone. If they want to corrupt it after that, it's on them, not me.

One time, as a continually hungry teen, I did a one day calorie count for a scout project. I was suitably horrified to find out at the end of the day that I had consumed around 10,000 calories.