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Insects might be more economical, or at least eventually when their production is more mainstream. But food is relatively cheap today anyway; what is expensive is rent/or mortgage. Food for a single, working person doesn't really make such a dent in the budget that they are forced to thin "damn, there has to be some alternative to this", compared to what they spend on their rent. So I don't think it's that much incentive to eat insects, from an economical perspective.

I think it's more fun to consider the widespread "hate" of comic sans, and considering whether it is really "bad" or just band-wagoning.

Are you a native or have you moved there from somewhere else? I think the dual to "the grass is always greener" is that you might not realize that some things are problematic, or that there are better alternatives, unless you've have the chance to look at it from another perspective.

That's a wide brush you've got there.

Which is why "working class" is preferred by some. But "middle class" in the modern vernacular seems to be more about living standards than means-of-income... and the middle class seemed to be doing good in the latter half of the 20th century, while now terms like "working class" seems to become more apt to describe the haves and the have not so much.

The 1950s aren't so far back in time that people can't rely more on their family's and other families' experience of what it was like in the 50s. Or are we really more informed by TV shows and sitcoms than we are by actual experiences?

Maybe we can change that to: there is no money in general purpose programming languages?

It seems to be done mostly by some students from Buenos Aires. I wouldn't be surprised if they decided what language to use.

They think that a woman making a non-traditional[1] choice is anti-feminist? They think that woman should fall in line and do what is expected of her (out of ideology)? How wonderfully ironic.

[1] staying at home might as well be the new non-traditional choice. Feminism is now the old guard.

Case in point of shallow analysis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236149

> You want to "take on the end of life", you want to "redesign death"? you want to be radical? and that means putting the metaphorial mirrors on the gurneys, and creating an iphone app "After I Go"?

I had my doubts about the title and how pompous it sounded, suspecting that it wasn't nearly as radical or visionary as it sounded. But jeez, that's it? Thanks for saving me the trouble of skimming that thing.

Please don't bring Norway into this. I'd rather not see it inspire yet another subthread with a bunch of cocksure foreigners who think they know what this country is like. Their analysis tends to be shallow.

I'm sorry: type checker.

"Even in the US," - American social mobility is something that is often touted, but not often proven. And last I saw, it seemed to have been exaggerated (though I don't have any great overview over research on this at all).

So? Post as much about the downsides of (admission to) prestigious schools as you want. People are still going to fawn over people who went there, and those who went there are going to continue to flaunt it (because, hey, it works).

More like a unicorn 10X Developer shortage. Companies will be pleased to find candidates who are eager and willing to jump through yet another proving ground, after having had so much fun with commit histories and stars on GitHub, SO points, and what have you[1]. They'll find smart candidates who are willing to work for them in exchange for being able to work on Interesting Problems and the occasional you-are-so-smart implicit approval.

[1] Meet the new standard; same as the old standard, and in addition to it.

He probably hasn't even implemented a brainfuck interpreter in Scala's type system.

I don't get it. If you have a headline that forces you to actually read the article to find out what it's talking about, or what the answer is, then people complain about "click bait".

If you use some kind of predictable cliché for your title, then articles like "Is X the new most dangerous thing?" isn't clickbait anymore - it's just "X is not the most dangerous thing (contrary to whatever belief/myth/contemporary opinion)". It's predictable and straightforward. And yet, that's apparently yet another reason for people to complain.

> I can't make it past the first sentance in the opening without just wanting to scream in annoyance.

Can I recommend meditation? Maybe going for a run.

Wildly off-topic, but I wonder if people like Sutter get tired of saying "c plus plus". It's a very wordy name, and words that start with "p" has got a certain punching quality that I don't know what is called.

If I was a daily C++ programmer, I'd rather call it "c p p".

I seriously want to meet the kind of person who looks at a job advert, maybe does an interview, and then decides "Yep, this is the kind of job that I would like to live and breath".

I can understand if someone does a job for a good while and gets invested and passionate about it. But who are these people who just look at job adverts and say "Yep, I could definitely centre my whole life around this."?

And at least they're not being indirect about it. E.g., "passionate", "not the type to insist on leaving at exactly 5 pm."...

I thought a salary was... you know... the primary thing that separates "a job" from "doing whatever the hell you want". But I guess I'm just not passionate enough to be a slave to other people's enterprises.

Presumably by gophers.

Is storing the elements in-place instead of with a pointer seriously all it takes to be intrusive? I'd have thought that would be par for the course in languages like C/++. Is there something else to it that I'm missing?

Now I can finally quantify how little I do of everything that I should be doing. Before it was vague; now the guilt really can come to life with exciting (or rather, flat?) graphs and visuals.

Maybe you overestimate how funny you are.

> And I'm a big believer of luck and randomness.

Indeed. Like, for example, being born with a high IQ?

Why do you have to worry about balancing parens when you can use things like paredit?

Well at least the title here on HN doesn't mention Google.