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dreta··on Ask HN: How to Learn OOP
If you’re going to learn OOP, you need a larger project to go along with it so that you can understand ASAP that it only makes you write more code, over-complicate problems, and makes your applications hard to understand, and debug. It’s going to save you from spiralling into the typical “OOP is fine, i’m just not doing it right, i should’ve designed that differently” loop that most college graduates go through during their first professional years.
dreta··on Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
HTML and JS are bad, but you can reduce them to a basic syntax that you can work with. CSS on the other hand requires hacks to perform the most basic operations like positioning an element relative to another element or centering an element inside of a container.
dreta··on A silent epidemic of male suicide (2011)
don’t forget the lack of help for male domestic abuse victims
dreta··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
The Wikipedia is the absolute last place you should ever visit to read up on political movements. It’s a biased source.

If you say you support a particular movement, you’re taking on the whole baggage it brings. If you don’t want the whole baggage then don’t name names.

dreta··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
I’m 27. This is my generation we’re talking about.
dreta··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
Who the EFA aligns with is relevant to the thread.

Currently the left in USA seems to conflate freedom of expression with freedom from different opinions, and, at least the mainstream left, seem to want more government involvement in the policing of speech.

So again, all of this matters, because it shows how they do, or might, define what their principles mean to them versus what they mean to you or me.

dreta··on Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
The first thing you should always ask yourself before you put any content on the internet is “what’s the worst thing 4chan can do with this?”.
dreta··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
After reading this, i don’t think i’m capable of ever complain about OOP again. Whenever you think you’ve seen it all, web developers always manage to come up with something worse. The only thing more depressing than this is the comment section below the article.
dreta··on That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
Virtue signalling, the article.

Apple’s based in SF. An iPad Pro is like a week’s worth of rent, and to them “work” probably means scribbling a hipster poem while sipping coffee you can’t pronounce without 5 years of language study. How is anything the guy said different from how the conferences always go. The fact that the author found it worthwhile to write about this like this is an actual problem is astounding.

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