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It replaced my lifelong fear (terror?) of death with what I can honestly say is now curiosity. You can experience only so many deaths in your mind before you learn to be comfortable with the idea.

I’m in the process of identifying communication gaps in my org and possible tooling and process solutions. Stack Overflow for Teams is high on my list of tools to evaluate and it feels like a Slack integration would be important so your comment finally prompted me to look into it.

It turns out there’s an official integration that looks pretty comprehensive: https://stackoverflow.co/teams/integrations/slack/

I too was homeschooled for most of my youth all the way through high school. At the time I welcomed it due to some pretty bad undiagnosed anxiety and ADD, but it in no way prepared me for life outside my nuclear family, nor did it provide me with much of an education that I didn’t explicitly give myself. My parents took me out of school for religious reasons primarily, with this vague notion they’d protect me and my sisters from secularism, while proving us a “better education.” As it turns out they were woefully under qualified to teach us anything past maybe grade 7, after which we were handed text books and encouraged to learn, instruction not included. Meanwhile I learned very little about social survival, or science, or life outside of the home. While I may have been protected from triggers to my anxiety, it actually got worse in ways because I was never challenged to grow, and it set me back in my social and emotional development many years. Subjects that the conservative Christian community considered risky (evolution anyone?) were either omitted or presented in such a corrupted way as to be worse than useless.

I love my parents, they tried their best, but there are very few scenarios in which I would encourage someone to homeschool their kids, if for no other reason than most parents aren’t trained teachers who actually know how to educate properly.

“Can do” doesn’t always (or even often) mean “can do well” or “can do well according to our needs” or “works for all our use cases” or “works for all our users” or…

If vanilla JS checks off all those boxes for you, that’s genuinely fantastic and I’m happy for you. And a lil envious tbh. But there are a myriad reasons I/we currently can’t justify ditching the build toolchain, and most of them relate to scaling in a way that fulfills our requirements. I can’t imagine I’m alone in that.

Jesus, then just don’t use their ads tier and you won’t ever have to see ads, or even evidence they exist. It’s not “anti-user”, it’s anti-prepend, apparently, and it ain’t all about you and your particular life circumstances. Some people can’t afford (or justify affording) Netflix but would enjoy watching Netflix content. This will allow them to.

And supporting ads and improving recommendations aren’t mutually exclusive, and to suggest the former will prevent the latter is a false dichotomy. How long have you thought that their recommendations have sucked? Months? Years? Always? And in all that time they didn’t improve things to your liking. How does building out an ads tier change that?

Modularization, encapsulation, coordination, safely scaling contributors/features.

FTA: "recently answered some questions via e-mail".

My guess is the interviewer just sent off a list of questions and Watterson answered the lot of them at his leisure. They just happened to all center around how desperately we all want more C&H.

Yeah, pretty sure that was a play on the CouchDB tagline.

Am I the only one who read it as funny satire? For some reason I don't read the author as being serious about his animosity towards IE6 users. It's just taking the typical "you're using an old browser and should upgrade" message several steps further for the sake of humor.

I've found your app addictive and useful (I'm prepping for the GRE), but it's a bit buggy in FF 3 on OSX and on my iphone.

1) animation on the word/choices occasionally flashes repeatedly, usually around 5 times in a row, but sometimes requires a page refresh to get it to stop

2) I've found that after a point some of the words are repeated more than 3 times and if I answer those words correctly for the 4th time I get a point reduced from my "words mastered" count

Otherwise, great clean interface. Well done.