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I'm more in favor of this convention (OS') when it comes to possessive apostrophes for word that end in an "S" which is to omit the trailing "S" and leave to the reader or interlocutor to infer the meaning from the context.

Even though I'm a JS-first dev but I second that. ( HTML & CSS in JS ) is a bad idea and not considered to be progress from the messy yet working templating engines (JS in HTML).

Proponents love to argue that integrating HTML & CSS into JS makes it easier for testing since JS is amenable to thorough testing as opposed to HTML & CSS.

While this is partially true and template files are not straightforward to test esp when you throw app logic into the mix but it still manageable if you kept to a minimum to the view part only and don't go overboard with it.

Also and this is very important, It's a given that HTML & CSS are forgiving compared to JS when it comes to errors but that doesn't mean that it's unlikely for a developer to shoot himself in the foot or to introduce unwanted/unintended bugs in the app through them esp. CSS and these usually are harder to catch and fix.

Safari WebKit is limited in comparison to Chrome's Blink or FF's Geiko in terms of features available and sadly it accumulated a lot of bugs that are waiting to be fixed since Apple opted to a slow release cycle model unlike the other evergreen vendors.

Also worth mentioning that web devs are usually considered power users when it comes to browsers and that's why our use profile and needs differ from that of the ordinary user

That's completely untrue. If the shop owner around the corner in your hood colluded with other shop owners to fix prices and they're caught, they will be in a lot of trouble. So, anti-competitive behavior is not about monopoly or market dominance, it's about the act itself.

It's about the question of engaging in anti-competitive practices and Apple is guilty of those despicable practices.

However, I must say that I am not totally sold on all the examples cited in the ancestor comment esp. that developers having to work exclusively on Mac machines to build for iOS devices because that's on the business side of the equation and mostly motivated by financial gains.

On the other hand, as a consumer I'm severely affected negatively by the restrictions Apple imposing on the browser engines available on their mobile devices and the monopoly Safari WebKit enjoys there and I'm really frustrated by that and by the fact that no one yet went after them for this but when you take into consideration that a lot of the big guns in the system are investing in this evil corporation, things become very obvious to you.

That's like someone after ordering a regular Big Mac meal (burger + fries + soda), he complains that the dessert portion of the meal either sucks or there are too many options available and some are not optimal enough when actually there was no dessert included in the meal in the first place.

Can we get real for a moment here?

npm/node reminds me of the implementation of a server side scripting language implemented solely in JavaScript written by people who have only ever heard other server side scripting languages described to them on a broken radio.

'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.'

npm modules are not an integral part of the language. It's just an optional add-on that you might explore on your own to get work done for you more easily and more efficiently.

If you're lucky and found a module that fits the bill perfectly for a given project, that's awesome. If not, that's fine too. You can either fork the module and extend it as you like or build a new one from scratch.

I don't know why you would expect to find npm modules that can get the job done 100% for you and all the time?

That's a totally unrealistic expectation and unreasonable.

If everything that we devs need is ready-made and our jobs relegates to only gluing stuff together like entry-level technicians, don't you think that would be detrimental to our profession as a whole as it would be a few clicks away for a bot or an algorithm to automate our jobs away?

IMO, FOSS is more leaning to the socialist/anarchist/libertarian side of the political spectrum with decentralization, resources sharing and distribution and disdain for authority at its core.

No but you didn't compensate the content creator with anything to demand a superb UX. When you pay them or exchange anything of value in return of the content you consume unless they're giving it explicitly for free, you could then argue that web advertising is degrading the UX.

"It is a movement to create an ad-free Web"

I find this view to be unlikely to materialize. We're in a consumerist-led capitalist economy and advertising is an integral part of it and the web as communications medium is one of its important assets.

This project will fail before it even starts due to the unrealistic end goal advertised - pun intended - on the page.

Didn't you read the "we devs are taking over the world" part and the infamous Andreessen's quote?

That's evil in my book.

Do you mean paying him 1/9th of the money and parting ways?

If Bobby was paid or compensated as he had expected, we wouldn't know about these incidents involving those slurs. That's my point.

Toda תודה Madame Yellen

Don't you love trickle-down economics, crony capitalism and the Fed/Wall St. cartel?

I really like how Americans have no qualms about the fact that a private institution controlling their currency and their economy and in turn their life but whatever floats their boat.

Well buddy, not all managers are spineless like the ones you have in that startup and if you tried to pull this trick on them and to strongarm them into submission, they'd kick you out the door in a heartbeat esp. when you're a lousy junior dev who's learning on the job according to your statement.

I've been very critic of employers and business owners when they describe that some employees have a mercenary attitude when it comes to the workplace and I'd always feel offended by that but when you read an account like this where certain jerks boast about their ability to bluff people and fleece them of their money in that disgusting manner, you come to realize that they might have a valid reason behind their worries and reservations.

You're implicitly assuming that the remaining 96% of the population is speaking another language which is untrue in your analogy as the world population speaks more than one language and the largest one in terms of number of speakers goes to Mandarin with around 15% of world population.

I bet the guy knows very well that the Sudanese politics are farce and he was just playing along maybe for the limelight or to play the controlled opposition part so Al-Bashir can claim that he wins in a free and fair elections.

- Do you conjugate verbs?

Sure you do in English and there are also the irregular verbs problem to crack such as go went gone / read read read (As you know, the past and past participle are pronounced as the word "red" and there's no clear non-ambiguous rule governing this usage you just have to memorize it sucks big time, doesn't it?)

- IMO, gender-based languages make much more sense to me and genderless langs like English are very confusing and suffixing every noun with -o or -a is not really a huge investment to take to avoid this confusion.

- I acknowledged that French is a bit more difficult to master than other Romance languages like Spanish and Italian and it takes much more effort to write or read but it still if you get around the rules in French and get familiar with the sounds, it would be far easier to guess words pronunciation or spelling without looking up a dictionary compared to English.

By the way English still retains some of the influences of the French language as a result of the Norman Invasion of England such as the subjunctive mood where you need to pick the right tense to express doubt in your communication. It's also worth mentioning that some people would argue that the complexity and tediousness in English spelling is attributable to adopting French words into the lexicon but seriously I don't care not my problem.

So, I would disagree with you that English is a simple or an easy to learn language. On the contrary, it's a life long investment and very high maintenance not only for the most complicated parts such as idioms or poetry but for the most basic ones such as reading and writing.

I'd be compelled to add that even Arabic and despite all the negative publicity it gets for being a complicated language which in some aspects it pretty much is, it still has a more streamlined and straightforward process than in English to reading and writing once you get your head around the concept of weak and strong vowels to start reading and writing and there's no need to memorize words one by one to be able to speak properly.

Lastly, the nerve of him calling a Romance language not pretty. I might not favor French over Italian or Portuguese when it comes to the domain of musical sounds but it's definitely way way better than English in that regard.

I on the other tend to give people the benefit of doubt before rushing to judgements. The fact that they excluded Asians whether for the East or the South from the preferential treatment makes me think that they're acting in good faith and with the best intentions till further notice.

BTW: I am not Caucasian. Since we brought up race in this discussion.

I knew some Ukrainian girls over the years and they seemed to me like good people with no racial prejudices towards people of other ethnicities and they blended very well with non Caucasian people.

Maybe you're hanging out with neo Nazis and ultra nationalist nutjobs and then extrapolating this to all Ukrainians?

It's getting annoying and bordering on obnoxious chauvinistic & ethnocentric rhetoric.

Not the prettiest nor easiest one to learn either.

What makes you think that English is any better?

Actually and this is an objective assessment English is one of the hardest languages to learn at least from orthography and pronunciation standpoints and in contradiction to the prevailing belief of the opposite.

Unlike in Spanish or Italian and to some extent French which enjoy an almost uniform rules regarding pronunciation and orthography, in English you should memorize how individual words are pronounced and written and you can't deduce correctly how a certain new word to be pronounced or written based on the pronunciation because it is not 1:1 translation from official letter sounds to words.

On the other hand, when you encounter a Spanish or Italian word and you know your alphabet and letters and simple rules, you pronounce the word as is no surprises in the process. When you hear a word correctly, you could decipher how it's written even when you encounter it for the first time and the success ratio is around 99%.

Good luck trying this with the English language. Please get off your high horse and don't kid yourself, we foreigners are not learning your language that's English because of its innate "superior" qualities to other world languages. It just happens to be the global lingua franca of this age and we're adopting to this nothing more nothing less.

But apparently everything is indeed BIGGER in Texas and this applies to stupidity, ignorance and prejudice as well.

It's a Texas thing not a US, or that what I hope the case to be.