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I just wish all languages had this kind of support.

"Science is supposed to challenge this type of quasi-mystical subjective experience, to provide an antidote to it."

That is where the author lost me. Science is supposed to challenge beliefs, not personal experience. It's the difference between "I feel great today" and "four people complimented my new haircut today". Science still allows you to revel in beauty when looking at a temple, even while there may be a sound explanation for why you're having these feelings.

I'm also surprised why no-one seems to take travel into account. I find that I type more relaxed (and faster) on keyboards with flat keys that don't travel much.

Since I'm tempted to set this up myself (not for Redis though), what is the alternative?

Add to that pathologically stupid stupid advice it evokes, and you would have to be pretty desperate for attention to post your private problems on the internet.

Stop whining. Just do whatever you want to do.

As a question to everyone else here: why upvote this shameless self-pity?

Also I'm tired of the "learn C" mantra. You don't need to know this language to understand pointers and their difference from references. Or the different approaches to memory management.

    foo = 42 to mean JavaScript's var foo = 42;
    foo := 42 to mean JavaScript's foo = 42;

But most poeple don't get my money.

Most also do not have a trust fund.

Also, I generally don't like my tools enough to spend so much time on them. It's just a tool after all, I go to the hardware store, pick a hammer, and start pounding nails.

So now I think they are heuristics rather than absolute measurements. And we should use them to teach ourselves something about logic, but not others.

People say this over and over, complaining about nested callbacks and what not. I can tell you from experience that it is not true. I've been working on a Node application for a few weeks now. It is our first server side Javascript endeavour as a company, I had only tinkered with it in my own time before this. And the experience is pretty good. Writing in a more functional style makes me more productive and makes quite some problems more straightforward to describe (implement).

I think keeping emotions out is an illusion.