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That is asinine.

Client libraries can be helpful and sometimes reduce a lot of plumbing/boilerplate that you would end up writing on your own (eg: authentication, paging).

Most environments -- Ruby, Python, PHP -- have minimal HTTP clients in standard libraries however they all have capable third-party libraries. Unirest as you mention, but also Requests for Python or Guzzle for PHP.

Product-specific clients generally build on these third-party libraries or go with the standard libraries instead. The product-specific clients generally offer more comprehensive error handling, for example if an API relies on arcane error codes that wouldn't immediately be obvious to an end-user.

Relaxing index-signature access is definitely great as it will make writing code easier. Dynamic properties can lead you to hairy code but it's hard to ignore the reality that it's used everywhere.

For example, no more awkward `e["code"]` where `e.code` is just as valid.

The rise of terrorists and other dangerous activists with the "world has no borders" mindset have given rise to the border security policies we are now being exposed to. We should expect more tightening of borders throughout the world as governments' catch up.

The free flow of immigrants has its risks and unless these activists stop poisoning the well then things will continue to be unpleasant.

The parent comment author seems to be disturbed by the phrase "controls the entire network." Setting aside his unwarranted paranoia, it does make me wonder which organization has the largest and most reliable corner of the internet. Google certainly qualifies by sheer volume of hardware and network infra.

It's not in everybody's best interests to change some people's minds and "steer society" in a different direction by breaking down barriers. The blowback from trying to make people stop being bothered by differences is real and there are countless examples of it around the world and throughout history.

"Live and let live" is more than just a banal platitude, it's a rule that's useful in keeping society functioning. Throwing radically different folks together and telling them to accept each-other is a fool's errand.

The spirit of MLK's teachings is that we should look beyond color, not remedy discrimination of the past by tilting the scales in favor of colored people.

Remedying past discrimination is not any company's responsibility, not by a long shot.

How do we really know race and gender are discriminating factors? Do we look at anything else or are we just making zero effort to do more than just confirm our biases?

We might as well take into account their financial background too, for example whether their parents grew up poor. It's about as relevant as someone's race, gender, and sexual orientation when it comes to hiring decisions.

Unless it's actually all about scoring useless PR points, or, more sinisterly, cowing to the demands of progressive extremists that threaten violence and negative media exposure. If that's what it's about then we can safely assume race, gender, and sexual orientation are irrelevant when it comes to hiring practices, and instead we can just hire random people that seem remotely qualified (which is what we have already been doing before this madness began).

Actually this pandering to diversity fanatics is a pointless endeavour -- all this ingratiating just wastes people's time while normalizing racism.

We used to teach kids to be colorblind but now we're teaching them to see nothing but color. It's a sad state of affairs.

I don't find his efforts to secure the country's borders questionable in the least, as a matter of fact I find it refreshing that a political leader follows through on his campaign promises.

No, if they're with a stated purpose then that's entirely different, but if it's just random violence for the sake of expressing your feelings then that's disgusting and uncalled for.

We are all patriots, but we're not all terrorists that use random violence to effect change.

Thankfully the judge's misguided naivete will be rectified, employers will receive push notifications and emails immediately when it becomes clear someone is a danger to society.

You don't have the right to be a criminal without consequence.

It's not a handful -- show me a gathering of anti-government protestors and I'll show you a news report the following day of random acts of violence. This is a slippery slope and permitting this to happen without consequence is dangerous.

Domestic terrorism is being normalized by a fifth column.

Random violence is the staple of the terrorist. There's a very large difference between activism and actively destroying businesses and causing grievous bodily harm, both of which the likes of terrorist groups (read: BLM and Antifa) have employed with reckless abandon.

Protesting peacefully != destroying private property and committing unprovoked acts of violence to innocents

There's a word for those that use random violence to effect change in society -- terrorists.

I downvoted you for talking out of your ass about people with over 500 karma being conservative.

Wrapping every standard library method with my own promises sounds like just another flavour of hell, and it still doesn't address the fact that the standard library is callback hell.

The standard library is still callback hell and the async package doesn't use promises at all.

Tech salaries in Canada are mediocre at best, with southern BC being the most perverted relative to cost of living. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Wealth has gravitated around massive city centers since time immemorial and China is even more hostile to foreigners. If you think America is the only one artificially gating wealth within the border then you are in for a rude awakening.

Coastal cities in America will continue to be a melting pot of culture but the wealth won't be siphoned off unabated.

The rationale behind the policy is ending the indentured servitude experienced by foreign workers and the hollowing out of the middle class.

It's hilarious that you think progressive extremists are pure and good, meanwhile the evil "Conservatives" pervert America with their traditional family unit, working-class values, and newly elected president.

Here's a newsflash -- the Dems are just as responsible for our current state of affairs by doubling down on pointless identity politics, hateful rhetoric, and hopeless fake news. Such adherence ideological extremism will only serve to destroy the Democratic party before 2018.

I would never work at a company structured like this and if you're implying we impose rules on companies to operate like democracies then that's even more dangerous than Trump.

It should be clear from that term that the parent is hostile to anyone not buying into their progressive extremist ideology.

There's plenty of evidence pointing towards liberal opposition to Trump's policies being purely contrarian despite their merit. Will you speak up then? Will you point out the hypocrisy and double-standards?

Pakistan and Indonesia maintain good relations with the US and they are able to provide reassurances that radical members of their Muslim populace won't try to spread Jihad across the world.

The seven countries have been either failed states or antagonistic to the US for the past 30 years, it is quite plain to say that it makes sense for Trump's companies -- and various other companies across a wide swath of industries -- to refrain from conducting business.

Because Saudi Arabia and Egypt have kept a lid on their populace by maintaining adequate internal security within their borders and providing valuable counter-terrorism intelligence to to the US, meanwhile the seven "countries of concern" have not.

Six of the seven countries are failed states and the other openly calls for the US' destruction.

It's not just Peter Thiel but anyone of sound mind -- the top 5 countries by Muslim-majority population are not included.

* Indonesia 204,847,000 (87.2%)

* Pakistan 178,097,000 (96.4%)

* India 172,245,158 (14.2%)

* Bangladesh 145,312,000 (90%)

* Nigeria 75,728,000 (47.9%)

If Indonesia suddenly became plagued by radical Islamic terrorism then it would be on the list too.

The seven countries targeted by the immigration ban have been either failed states or antagonistic to the US for the past 30 years, it is quite plain to say that it makes sense for Trump's companies -- and various other companies across a wide swath of industries -- to refrain from conducting business there. To say that other Muslim-majority countries aren't on the list due to conflict of interest is to deny this simple logic.

Plenty of other Muslim-majority countries have kept a lid on their populace by maintaining adequate internal security within their borders and providing valuable counter-terrorism intelligence to to the US, meanwhile the seven "countries of concern" have not.