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If someone recommends me a subreddit, I would check it out. Reddit is not inherently bad. However, you have to understand a lot of us have a negative perception of subreddits, given how many jerks, trolls and bullies participate in them. Even in the good ones there's so much negativity and discourtesy. It's so sad, I personally am afraid to participate most of the time because I admittedly have very thin skin and those kinds of interactions can ruin my day.

Your points are completely valid, I get your frustration. But you are comparing against previous generations of MacBooks. I would like to know your thoughts when comparing against e.g. a top tier ThinkPad running Windows or Linux.

In a place I worked, if someone left at 5:30 pm, the CTO used to joke "half day today?", even though the person came in at 9 am.

In both the places I've worked, it's a common joke anyone says when somebody leaves. everybody laughs and nobody gets offended. It doesn't mean anything.

Oh, my God! I'm part of the problem!

- early exits to hell that can only be fixed by rewriting What do you mean by that?

Wasn't Java problem a a branding issue? Java got a bad reputation of being slow and not looking native. Java apps looked like Java apps. Also, they were so slow that could actually tell when the garbage collector was working. by the time Java got fast it was too late. Even now, .Net guys that didn't bother getting to know Java after its first decade, usually say Java is slow. Something similar happens now with people who hasn't used JavaScript in 15 years saying it's not a real language, etc., etc.

Start there, learn English. I know so many potentially good devs that cannot be hired at good paying companies because of lack of English skills. (Speaking of Mexico, btw.)

I suppose Uber could validate the GPS position of the driver and my phone and use that to validate my story, but I doubt they went through all that trouble :(

For that, I assume they would need to have tools built for that specific purpose, with security/audit in place. I doubt any support guy could just randomly query for GPS data for drivers/users.

But it terrifies me that you say it like it's nothing and like this digital "purchasing" thing is something new (I am not disagreeing, on the contrary.)

I have avoided and have never bought anything digital for those reasons, but it really is depressing that these things have not been solved by now.

Could you explain?

But it's not impossible to have some tool that records all of those interactions to reproduce later. A smart enough tool could record everything since you open the site until you click save. It would not reproduce the functionality that is backend dependent, but iy sure can replicate the dom, etc. Am I missing something?

Well, why not just make yet another one for one of those more useful languages, but not fall under the same trap of spending too much time on the parser?

"frankly in 2016 I am afraid the average undergrad compiler course is part of the problem as much as the solution."

What do you mean by that?

Here's the story Joel Spolsky wrote some time ago[1]:

Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

I find that interesting. Could you mention some of those studies?

Do you live in Mexico? I understand if you don't, but if you do... wow! it's such a pain to carry a passport. My IFE is expired right now and I have been carrying the passport for a couple of weeks, always afraid I will lose it. The cost of the passport alone would be enough motivation for leaving it at home.

To be fair, driver license is also good enough for most cases.

Very easy to say, most of the times in health.

Well, the task of writing the compiler was given to an intern, so I would guess it was an experiment that ended up working well enough that became their strategy for supporting Unix.

I dont understand. Could you explain why?

Additional to the other responses, did you notice this guy wrote three books about one liners in awk, sed and perl?

I disagree, native looking applications, while "boring", at least feel natural. Every time I use an application with custom controls (which almost always look pillowy) I feel like it wasn't made by a professional, it tends to respond different and it just doesn't feel right. I have read again and again criticism against Java and how it "failed" in the desktop because every time you used a Java application, it looked like a Java application.

then you don't understand what Smalltalk is anyway Sorry, but I think that is just wrong. As far as I know, Pharo is one of the best and more approachable alternatives to enter the Smalltalk world. They should be doing a better job at welcoming people to "their world". If they want people to just come already knowing what they are going to get, I don't see how are they going to go mainstream, ever (assuming they would like to.)

Well, I do one hour commute in the morning, eight hours of work plus one to eat, then another hour commute back home, sometimes one and a half if there's traffic. That's eleven hours daily for a job I really like. I would be glad to work those 9.5 if I could get to the office walking. 1.5 extra hours doesn't necessarily mean horrible work life balance, as long as it doesn't turn into 12 every other day.

Well, if everyone is already using the pirated software in China, making it free means no loss in profit, but an increment in legitimate beta testing. I guess a free early release for China would make much more sense and might result in a higher quality general availability release... or do we also need to wait for Windows 10.1?

> thats what everyone is charging for stores these days after all But as soon as Microsoft starts doing it, everyone will bury them in negative reviews and criticism for being evil, greedy and the reason the industry sucks. The "everyone else is doing it" excuse doesn't work for Microsoft, people just want more reasons to hate it.

I think you're right. OOP'ers tend to not understand FP, and when they do get it, they are happy to use it. On the other hand, die-hard FP'ers tend to look down on OOP'ers.

I have always heard the opposite, that too much logging is as bad as no logging. I see the point of having the logs to be able to find out what happened, but what happens when there' s so much logging that the information needed is just buried into huge amount of noise?

I agree, but it also made me click not because it was a woman, but because it made me think a Nobel prize for math suddenly exists (didn't notice the quotes.) I was actually disappointed.