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PHP is still an incredibly verbose and tedious language to work with. I'm glad that it's continuing to improve because I'm stuck with it everyday.

It's a defence mechanism, I think. Most of your life people tell you your lazy, weird, etc. These things become part of your identity and they hurt and hold you back. ADHD is a problem with solutions so replacing those internalized labels helps. Even if it's not the most healthy solution.

The system knows to serve you ads about the new topic because it's new. You're already getting ads for the stuff you're normally talking about. The new topic stands out easily.

It doesn't have to be your phone. Could be your TV or any other device.

Most importantly there's just patterns of behavior. Companies are absolutely desperate for every scrap of data they can get on you. Why would they not capture audio from your mic?

It seems arbitrary to single out video games. How are sports less made up?

I like using minimalism as an starting place, but I think it's idealistic in most cases.

We use senrty and we rely on many of the features you miss out on by just posting minimal exception information.

Its pretty amazing that these systems were using a form of virtual machines.

7bits would be 128 times.

Since it's so difficult to solve all social issues we shouldn't waste any effort trying. There's no ponit in having morals or even independent thought if we're being honest.

I see this kind of arguement a lot. It's also common to read about people traveling abroad to receive better treatment that will save their life.

I'm not sure which anecdotes to believe in this case.

Thanks for mentioning this. I had no idea Firefox Mobile supported add-ons even though I've been using it for a year.

I agree. I find that overly verbose code can be just as difficult to follow as code that's too clever.

It's clear to me that the solution is to integrate python into the kernel.

I use my ereader for entertainment and paper books for technical information.

I'm not really a book person though. I don't think owning a bunch of physical books makes me smarter and I don't particularly like the look of shelves upon shelves of books.

I always try to find some negative but thorough anecdotes about the new tech. Either where it is known to fall short or even better some unexpected issues.

The fact that the component is made up of html, css and javascript instead of layout code, styling code and logic code seems irrelevant.

The NSA was spying on us before Obama took office.

To me, #5 is calling out developers that write sloppy, thoughtless and obviously inefficient code and then claim premature optimization when someone comments on the quality of that code.

Exercising 4 times a week has changed my life. I generally feel better and I have an easier time dealing with less than adequate sleep.

Just because Zillow has something in their terms of use that doesn't make it enforceable.

> Underneath all of this lies the fallacy of thinking that you can predict the future needs of your code

The point of OOP isn't to predict the future. You should be actively aware that you cannot know the future and leave youself room for change.

I second this approach. The only state my behavior classes hold are injected dependencies.

The only caveat to this approach is that for some cases you will need a state accumulator of some sort. But those state manipulations are isolated and easy to deal with.