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Yeah, I understand that it might get confusing to use multiple implementations, or to transition between the two, but I seriously doubt these claims that “regular people” (as in, people who are expected to know how to use Word) are struggling with the syntax itself.

The article pretends that Markdown got popular because “it was there”. 15 years ago people were adopting it _because_ it is dead simple, unobtrusive, and visually evocative.

The ones who made it popular, in other words, did so quite intentionally.

LSD is not a CNS by any stretch of that definition.

How does it contradict, exactly?

To me it seems completely congruent with your quotation.

Significant whitespace is a divisive enough choice that a non-zero percentage of programmers won't even consider the language unless forced to do so by economic circumstances.

It might not be a highly visible downside, but it's there nonetheless. It's better to be honest about that than pretend there is no cultural tradeoff that comes with making such a (IMO) terrible design decision in a language.

There are plenty of people that feel the same way about sigils (like `$foo` in Perl) and semi-colons. I've never understood it -- and likely never will, at this point -- but I don't pretend that there isn't a real demographic effect that these choices bring with them.

“Opt to be paid in..”

Seems like you haven’t had much time with the history of company towns and company stores.

This makes no sense in relation to Right to Be Forgotten, right? Why mandate a mechanism for a person to be able to legally request being 100% flushed from company databases only to try to pull this?

Also the ability to just put a function somewhere in the “bare” part of a namespace was something I didn’t realize I missed as much as I did.

And I bet you consider yourself scientifically minded. Depressing.

Do a bit of research on ADHD. Maybe look into mortality rates between medicated and unmedicated ADHD. Consider for a moment why stimulants are prescribed for ADHD in the first place, and not for anything else.

If you do the above and still can’t see how a simple test like this is more accurate and scientific than a subjective quiz that can be studied against, then I hate to inform you but you are not as objective a thinker as you might expect you are.

What is hard to believe? The effect of stimulants is calmative for genuine ADHD. Anyone else will have more micro fidgets as a result of the medication.

This is coupled by response time markers as well as success rate.

EDIT: https://www.qbtech.com/adhd-tests/qbtest/

The idea that the tools we use shape the output of what we create is intrinsic to reality. The more essential something is, often the harder it is to argue.

And no one in this thread said superior. They said different.

There is a much more objective test involving tracking micro movements while performing a series of response tests both before and after medication.

Those with ADHD will respond positively in the tracked markers when given medication. Those without ADHD will respond worse.

Common Era was first used in place of AD in the seventeenth century… by a Christian.

That’s as nested as you’ll get me to go today. Blessings!

Anything that isn’t explicitly Christian is anti-Christian, now?

BC/AD already exists, there is no reason for Christian activists to try and neologize our neologism.

Do you understand that the majority of the world is not Christian?

Why do you think one should get away with trying to rewrite the very acronym that exists to not reference a religion into being a direct reference to a religion?

CO2 emissions risks were already being discussed in the 1800s.

Furthermore, Big Oil notoriously suppressed any hint of their internal climate change models from being published and hired the same marketing firms that Big Tobacco employed.

Greece had multiple colonies in India and there was significant cultural diffusion in BCE times.

Flash was a lot of things, but also, at the same time, neither of these things. (You could come across poorly coded and thus poorly performing apps, but that wasn’t the standard).

Modern day SPAs are far, far worse offenders when it comes to smothering resources.

Thanks for this! More or less what I expected, just wanted to be sure.

People think of “alcoholism” as a binary. It’s not, and the new language reflects this. We absolutely should educate “problematic” drinkers that they are on a sliding slope to an ungroovy dependency.

It also highlights that just because you were classifiable as AUD, you won’t necessarily be so classifiable for the rest of your life.

The language of alcoholism often mirrors sermons of eternal damnation. Not a particularly inspiring starting point for treatment and a big reason why most people who succeed in getting past AUD don’t do it in groups that preach this eternal damnation angle.

One day the things that I do with my body and mind will not be subject to capital’s desire to milk as much money as possible out of me through sheer longevity.

Seriously, the moralizing of life expectancy makes no sense. Let us each optimize for our own idea of a good life.

Just curious, but would it have been feasible to update the Objective-C compiler to reduce these pain points?

Or was there issue more intrinsic to the design of the language itself?

Also, if it hadn’t been (slowly) improving all this time then I would have defenestrated my work laptop, myself, or both long ago.

I’m trying to imagine using it without the stream API just shuts my entire brain down. Records arrived pretty recently and are already essential for me.

You will always have to pay me to program Java, but you’d have to pay me 5x my current salary to do it in Java 8 or earlier.

When you say stitch, I hear subjugate.

Fair point about the before and after Caeser. The historical record is pretty clear that enormous volumes of Gauls died during their “civilization” at the hands of Rome.

It’s true that populations that have already been brutalized into an empire are easier to absorb by other empires. I guess I was responding to the language you were using that (to me) presumes that being smashed down and genocided into the murky doublethink of empire is a net positive for the cultures being rapaciously absorbed against their will.

> It isn’t anti-intellectual to say that most of what the US federal government does would be better performed by private industry.

Considering this is simply a religious statement posing as an assertion of fact, I would argue it is anti-intellectual to an extreme.

Please share some libertarian paradises where this has proven true. How’s Kentucky doing again?

This is painting the Gauls as far more primitive than they were. They weren’t particularly “uncivilized” (which is far more a compliment than I think you realize), they just didn’t want to be subjugated and thus were subjected to genocide by Julius Caesar.

That still doesn’t imply that people cut him slack strictly because of profits received, which was my only point.

I think he was all of those things, but also could be the opposite of those things, too.

Humans are complex and when you already changed the course of history by 25 or whatever, you are going to be even more complex.

I don’t idolize Steve Jobs but I do find him to contrast positively against other similar figures like Gates and Ellison. Low bars, I know. But I guess I wanted to defend that people can have a soft spot for Jobs without ever making a dime from any of his endeavors.

The real major issue with multiple inheritance is that only a few languages (Eiffel, for one) seem to require declaring invariants for each class.

Then multiple inheritance is much cleaner because you can test constructor arguments against the union of these invariants before even hitting a constructor.

Note that I’ve never used it, but it did strike me that this was “the” way to include multiple inheritance in a language. But for some reason (run time performance maybe?) no one else seems to have done it this way.

I’m surprised this is considered a controversial take.

You can write spaghetti in any language or paradigm. People will go overboard on DRY while ignoring that inheritance is more or less just a mechanism for achieving DRY for methods and fields.

FP wizards can easily turn your codebase into a complex organism that is just as “impenetrable” as OOP. But as you say, fads are fads are fads, and OOP was the previous fad so it behooves anyone who wants to look “up to date” to be performative about how they know better.

Personally I think it’s obvious that anyone passing around structs that contain data and functions that act on that data is the same concept as passing around objects. I expect you can even base a trait off of another trait in Rust.

But don’t dare call it what it actually is, because this industry really is as petulant as you describe.

If you can find any examples of non-totalitarian regimes that are facing the same media consolidation problems that were not immediately preceded by Clinton-esque laws deregulating said media consolidation, I would love to know about it!

EDIT: The “world wide web” also played a major role in kneecapping the funding sources of journalism. But failing outlets could not simply be swallowed by conglomerates without the aforementioned liberalization of media ownership.