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I have the same question, haha

Classic millenials

Why would they go buy a Macbook and put their Microsoft acquisition presentation on it for the subtle PR that they acknowledge Macs exist? How does that make sense? If they were going to put that much effort in, why wouldn't they to full ham and use something running Linux?

Only intended to explain, not excuse. I totally agree.

*her/their tone, if you care

As the person mostly on the hook for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435305 (as I recall), I can imagine she/they would be a little on edge.

Still not a good look. . .

*the New York Times of almost 30 years ago

If I had to guess, the selling points are: promises + fetch syntax + tiny size.

Because Tesla is topical and outlets want to ride the wave of the self-driving murder car as long as they can?

I would be inclined to say it says more about our feelings on Will Wheaton. . .

How does GDPR relate to NSA surveillance. . .?

May be happening for other people, but I've never had this happen. 60+ tabs and it never breaks 2GB.

I'm curious: How does this compare to something like Pixi?

Had the exact same thought coming here, couldn't have said it better.

My thoughts kinda echo this, but I don't think it's outlandish for a junior dev to know a lot of this - what's less reasonable is knowing it with enough depth that they can bring it all to bear without prep in an interview. They've had fewer opportunities to put these things into practice, so I'd only expect them to demonstrate proficiency if they knew ahead of time to study those fairly specifically.

Oh god, I'm still on 3

Highly recommend you check out The Great War series on Youtube. Even if you just watch the prologue to the war videos, very informative on how WW1 got kicked off.

Short answer: nationalism and a lot of treaties and grudges from past wars.

Do a fair amount of Node and browser stuff on Windows. Use Sublime with a few plugins as my text editor, and git bash as my terminal, Chrome debugger when I really need it. Works pretty comfortably.

I was responding to reader5000, who said ". . .not wanting your children. . ." (emphasis mine)

Haha! I mean, fair. Obviously OP has the most information, so ultimately is probably best placed to make appropriate choices. I don't dispute that.

Childless millennial software developers (or otherwise generally technical) are in a better position to understand puberty in the modern internet driven landscape than someone who went through it 30 years ago, though. That's a relevant perspective here. . .no? The whole idea is to provide alternative perspectives, so that we can have the most information and thus (in theory) make the best choices, right?

Thank you for explaining further, that helps narrow down the situation.

"we had to take stronger measures against this disease in his mind that led him to put his younger siblings in danger of seeing something far more confusing and graphic than they're ready to at their ages."

This is what leaves me unconvinced (and I don't have expectation of changing your mind either - you operate with the most information here so that's probably a good thing). Certainly, what he did was inappropriate, but. . .a boy in puberty looking for porn on the internet is not a "disease". Even offensive porn. There's not something wrong with your boy. He did a bad thing (or a few bad things). He's a teen. Doesn't mean he should be let off the hook, but. . .diseased? Nah.

It does sound like you're having some conversations about this (and importantly, providing the idea that there's something better out there), though, so that's good.

That's a good question, and I'm not sure. I think the. . .popular mentality is that you model proper behavior/approaches, but I don't think that really works here as well. The idea is that you have someone wiser than you who you can compare experiences with, and they can help guide you away from damaging choices - e.g. violent rape porn is probably a bad choice because X, Y, and Z. But I don't know what to generically recommend for reaching that place.

Not quite what I was saying. Not wanting anyone you care about to "develop sexual relationships with computer screens" is normal, I'd think.

Mandating all levels of access to computer screens because of that desire is what's draconian, not the intent behind the mandate.

If I was a kid who's parents were actively monitoring my search activity, cutting off my access to the internet as a whole because of porn, and were trying to equate me watching porn because I'm going through puberty (presumably) with throwing away meaningful relationships in my future. . .what that teaches me is to never, ever go to my parents for any problems I have remotely related to sex, because their draconian. And that's bad. If I'm not going to my parents with those, who am I going to?

There's merit to what you're saying, yes, there's an unhealthy push for hardcore stuff in the modern porn landscape. Yes, in excess it's bad (as is everything else, by definition, but this more than many other things). But mostly I just feel bad for your kid. I get if he's like 13 or whatever you don't want him immersing himself in violent rape porn, but I feel like there's better ways to solve that than "no internet for you, and internet you do have is Being Watched".

Also unimportant, but does anyone develop a porn habit not in secret?

Your 3 year old daughter is definitely the demographic in danger of her school mates introducing her to violent pornography, yes.

Tried it out, and this really is a fantastic, well made tool. Thank you for sharing!

Pretty much 100% agree with this.

I wonder how much of this has to do with lack of reexamination on the parents' part. Limiting 6 year olds to 30 minutes a day (or whatever) is fine - the same limitation is less appropriate for a 10 year old and even less appropriate for a teen.

It makes the most sense to me to expand time to use in adolescence, and what can be used in teenage years.

No, proofs were usually done in an entirely separate class later, with the DSA classes focused on data structures (stacks, heaps, hash tables, etc.), sorting algorithms (merge sort, quicksort, etc.), and efficiency (e.g. using Big O). Such was the majority of the content in both cases, at least.

I still don't really have an answer to my question, though. What makes using a different language such a poor choice in this context?

"And anyone who seriously considers teaching a first language that students can't use in a data structures and algorithms course (without having to learn a second language) isn't worth paying much attention to."

Why? Both colleges I've been to had their DSA courses after at least two intro courses, and in a different language than the intro courses.

What is so inherently contemptible about this?