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Because soon you will just ask your computer to build your code after giving it a few parameters. Then you will proof read and sanity check the code and spend more time optimizing and working on the really hard problems.

Do you realize that is tangential to the discussion? They shouldn't be invading privacy in the first place!

And what do you mean not publicizing it? It is quite visible on the ads they show it for.

There are plenty of shills paid to dismiss these articles, and plenty of apologists who have dismissed morality and ethics for a variety of reasons.

Do not ever take internet comments as good representations of humanity's opinions. Most people don't have the framework to realize how bad these things are, but thankfully we have such Human Rights Groups around to help inform people.

These internet discussions are the first line of defense for the shills, they sow FUD which suppresses a lot of action because at the least people think "what's the point, no one else seems to care."

HN is a backed by large organizations, of course they will at some point control the news feed.

Idealism is only possible for small organizations or those beholden to no one. We need to stop giving the benefit of the doubt when history shows time and again that corporate entities lose their human values in trade for financial ones.

Some people don't appreciate being required to run arbitrary code just to view an HTML page and the eye candy of JS is just not worth it.

Sure there are cases where JS is incredibly useful and beneficial, but your website should be able to display the majority of content with JS disabled.

Money. Sadly morals and convictions get quickly tossed out the window for money and power. It is China's problem, why should Western companies damage extremely profitable business relations? I agree with you that they should cut off such countries, but modern morality is a lot more fluid and money is king. Typical FYGM mentality.

Agreed. No need to be a dick, but bug reports are often pretty cut and dry and often some frustration does leak into the tone. Any big project, whether code or some local government thing, will have some level of assholes.

The more the brain is used the better it gets. I would look at this as a co-evolutionary trait. Hands help brain, brain helps hand. Without hands it would be hard for the brain to be useful. Maybe thats why octopuses are so smart, they can manipulate their environment.

As someone else said you missed the point.

I will tack on my own opinion that building sites that only function with javascript is a massive disservice to everyone. From disabled people with accessibility needs, to old hardware/software, and even to security/privacy conscious people the JS paradigm is a massive problem. The trend for "new shiny" has become ridiculous and I find most modern websites to be pretty but rather useless. I have to scroll forever past slices with massive images and marketing lingo just to find something that seems potentially helpful but just goes on to more marketing bullshit.

Want to get my buy-in for your tools? Stop making them a hard requirement and make sure you have a non-JS fallback that works.

As with the majority of security issues it was done for convenience. Not every user has access to the hosting provider so it was done out of convenience.

Thankfully they removed this option in Drupal 8, the latest version. You could also restrict users from accessing the functionality so it wasn't that terrible. In practice few sites actually use the option, but when they do it can make troubleshooting a giant pain in the ass.