NeoBasilisk

Reading about something and experiencing it firsthand are not really the same. But I think it is safe to say that he probably had more going on that just that.

"We can do better than SQL."

I heard this not too many years ago, and I am now very skeptical based upon those results.

I fully acknowledge that conditions affecting the brain will have a much larger impact on one's identity. That much is obvious.

That being said, if I had the option to "correct" most of my personal atypical genetic "variations," I would do so.

Colorblindness? Yep, I don't want that. Congenital flat feet? I don't need those. IBS? No thanks. Hair loss starting at 17? Nope! Weird neurological symptoms no doctor has ever been able to fully diagnose? I would pay almost any amount of money to make those go away.

Anyone that started developing in the IE9 era or later cannot comprehend how painful it was to develop for IE6. You simply have no frame of reference whatsoever. Any gripes you have about IE9 or later sound like a joke in comparison. Even IE8 was a huge improvement.

not elite enough to escape scrutiny but elite enough to embark on these ventures

It's a balancing act, and this time it looks like many are going to fall.

Interesting, I didn't know that quakes could still occur without tectonic activity. The explanation makes sense, but I had just never thought about it.

I understand the sentiment of caution here, but some of those reasons listed were really dumb.

>Earth is not a steady-state system but a rather a system of constant flux and adaptation.

I just want to point out that the main mechanism of adaptation is that the creatures less suited to survival die out.

But we got Commander Keen, which will always have a special place in my heart.

That is true. What I meant to say is that any real threat of getting the disease in the US was eradicated.

Amazing that a disease that was eradicated decades ago can be brought back so easily by human stupidity

I think I'm most disturbed by the author's comment that he has dropped it from a height of 30cm multiple times.

imagine being the guy that accidentally burned down the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019

This still looks like sci-fi to me.

It's always weird to see articles like this talking about traditional forum sites as if no one uses them anymore.

I wonder how many of these hackers "just liked to solve interesting problems" for work.

Most of us are not writing space shuttle code (or any other aerospace code, considering all space shuttles have been retired).

If I did it, then so can you.

>Pages containing popular JavaScript frameworks were more likely to have accessibility errors than those that didn’t use those frameworks.

probably the least surprising part

Maybe I'll finally try playing it. It always seemed fascinating.

You don't need social media to learn that climate change is a thing. Just read Wikipedia. Look at the citations. And yet, a sizable portion of the US public believes it's a hoax.

>you can't work at a job that is completely meaningless to you

You absolutely can, and millions of people do every day.

The anime piracy community is kind of its own beast. And we like it that way. :) Also, I would assume that there are different considerations for primarily dealing with animation as opposed to primarily live action.

Is the stuff not working in Firefox due to lazy devs too young to remember IE6?

You would have loved working in the industry 10 years ago.

How did Chrome have better privacy than Firefox at any point in the past?

We never needed Chrome. Firefox has been around since 2002.

I'm glad it wasn't just me being sick and my mind muddled that was making me raise an eyebrow as I was reading his description.

also slavery was still legal in the US in the mid 1800s

I'm starting to think that the web is just fundamentally not sanely salvageable at this point from a dev perspective. It really does seem to just slowly drive a lot of people insane after spending at least a decade in it.