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> Would you rather take coding advice from the person who wrote a ball of mud in PHP, or John Carmack?

Depends on what I'm doing. Maybe I'm indeed going to write some ball of mud (unmaintainable, one-off, but perhaps faster to write) PHP code? I reject your hero worship.

> Interesting that she is autistic. Autism is apparently more common among boys than girls. Could this be one reason why tech attracts more men than women?

"Maybe this group of people has more of X because X is more likely to have a neurodevelopmental disorder"? Nice. Thank you so much for associating a whole industry with autism.

A disorder that apparently 1-2 out of 1,000 people have, at that.

> So... more perceptive women, who see from the outset [...]

Way to diss the authors' intelligence.

> Sometimes these things are easy to miss, but once you are on the lookout its a slippery slope to thinking that almost everything happening to you is because of your gender and its good to call people out on that.

Yes, probably. Both if you're a man or a woman.

Why wouldn't you shoehorn a language who's ergonomics and limitations have been argued for by how it would fit for concurrent (web)server code in larger projects into application development? I mean, err...

And such a good one!

One day, one day I will see a Canadian talk about Canada without whining about the cold or the winter straight off the bat.

> I'm interested in facts and non-emotional analysis;

Pff. You're intention and the point you want to prove is ridiculously transparent. Don't try to pass it off as neutral and factual curiosity.

What is the euphemism for "prudes"?

So? Is that something to be ashamed of? Like the sibling wrote, they mark such things as being not-safe-for-casual-browsing.

> Millenials have a relatively low birth rate compared to the Gen Xers at the same age, due, perhaps, to the economic situation. If you are not raising kids, you have a lot more free time and energy to pour into other things.

So many activities to do in this day and age and in this economy. You can surf the Web so much..!

If it so happens that people who are having problems with the running time of tests have something like on the order of as much test code as they have "actual" code, I'm not surprised that they have to optimize the test suite. Apparently that was a trend some time ago (I don't know if it still is).

What about, dropping Christopher Walken onto Pluto?

Not visiting websites that you don't like has the effect of making you less cynical IME.

> Anyway: USA! USA! (I kid!) Go humanity!

Well it was a grand old dick-waving contest in the 60s. Why not now as well.

Spotify on Linux: clicking on things often feels slightly janky and laggy. How fitting!

And the spacebar will 80% of the time page down rather than pause the music, something which sounds minor but which makes the user experience 50% more annoying for me. Do most people even use spacebar to page down in normal webpages!?

> You'll be sad to known

It wouldn't be so sad if it wasn't so noticeable.

> parse

The quote consists of seven words, where a word in this context is a lexical unit that consists of alphanumeric characters, and the words are separated by some kind of whitespace.

Humanity is also full of cynical assholes.

That sounds reasonable; only observe one side of the conflict and none of what might have provoked it and base your whole opinion on that.

> Using the name of this language in a workplace creates a hostile working environment[1].

Oh my, thanks for the laugh. I half imagined a Dilbert scenario when reading that.

It's weird to think of the simultaneous uptightness and childishness which would make it impossible to use this homonym in the proper context.

Subjugation is more profitable than total annihilation.

Does Software Foundations assume a less or more advanced background from its readers?

Breaking news: American thinks that America is really, really good for the world. "Neutral stance" my ass.

But there is practically world peace here in the First World far away from the proxy wars and such, so who's complaining...

The language and ideas behind it seems pretty serious. But they might consider pissing off particularly prudish Americans to be a bonus.

His name is Niklaus Wirth, for anyone who might not have known...

> As a graduate student, he studied with Niklaus Sweet, creator of Pascal.

Niklaus Sweet, fucking seriously?

> I enjoy playing Watch Dogs but there comes a point where I put the controller down and fire up Visual Studio and have more fun creating than consuming. Not everyone is afflicted this way, this is my cross to bear.

Oh my.

No you moved the goalpost from half-justifying, to "tough shit, sometimes you just gotta deal with it". Which I agree with insofar that some things are just "the way they are", but it's a completely different argument.

> of course, given his knowledge and experience, perhaps often justyfingly so, but still.

Always with the half-excuses for people with technical ability/track record. "Well he comes off as kind of rude, buut he kind of knows what he's doing so the arrogance is maybe warranted". Just goes to show that technical ability and dealing with people even in a technical setting are two very different things. I guess that is the reward for a technical track record? Being half-excused for lording it over other people?

Disclaimer: I know nothing about Cox' online personality. I'm just addressing how people react to rude (or whatever the intent is) technical people.