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Indeed, and although it would sound silly to us, a lot of journalists are surprisingly bitter over the 'learn to code' meme-debacle of just several months ago. When the journalism bubble burst the success of tech was used to humiliate journalists. They won't be kinder when our bubble bursts.

I think in a marketers mind, you are from the outbound Millenial generation rather than the current 'young' Generation Z (or Zoomers as they're called in the Wojak meme world).

Everyone is downvoting you but the pizza gate conspiracy seemed ridiculous when it came out, and now it just seems like what they got wrong is that it probably wasn't happening at Cosmic Pizza, and was happening at a way more massive scale than they'd assumed.

I think the reason people are downvoting your comment (aside from the obvious reason, which is that it's a little low-effort) is that people didn't like pizzagate. It had an altright, Trumpy 'beware the deep state satan pedophile illuminati' feel to it that we oppose being true for identity reasons (ie, we are not those people who say trollish, unintellectual things like that!).

Although pizzagate is false, it's not as false (in a kind of Bayesian way) as it was before the Epstein island entered the public conscience.

He once answered a question of mine about recursion with x86!

Everyone's downvoting you but your hypothesis, but I think it seems easily falsifiable and would be fun to investigate. It might be worthwhile to do a simple data analysis of submissions mentioning such companies around those dates to see if the correlation exists, then do a bit more to see if how attributable it is to marketing ploys from the companies themselves.

Indeed. I live in Mexico and the feeling of going to the US from here is that everything is so clean, the roads are way nicer, basically the reverse perception of everything GP said

>that's par for the course on Stack Overflow

This is tangential to the meat of your comment but I feel compelled to nitpick based entirely on personal anecdote: I have been helped hundreds of times on StackOverflow by people who had nothing to gain from it and yet provided in depth, insightful answers. In my experience, the farther you get away from the big, overwhelmed tags, the better the quality is. But you don't want to get so obscure that you are just ignored.

The Racket community on SO is particularly fantastic, and (in my experience) the more 'web' related your question is, the worse answers you get.

Awesome! I've used Racket for web development myself, wonderful experience. Glad you're having fun, good luck with your business.

Totally agree. I really feel like Racket has earned my love.

>is simply virtue signalling

No, more like life style participation.

>I guess, in that case, the "unpretentious, lower class people who hate yoga" would have those tree huggers to thank.

We need many countries to make national-level policies about this. The Instagram people are a smug drop in the bucket.

>we still find ourselves in conflict at every turn. That's because you can't go too long without confronting the objective physical reality of scarcity of resources.

That correlation seems made up. Has there been an increase of scarcity-driven wars? Most wartorn places don't seem to be resource scarce.

Yep. https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Courses-using-Racket

Lots of universities teach Scheme, particularly Racket. Although Python is more popular, even in that domain.

I really hoped Julia would become a major player in scientific computing and data science, but it looks like ever less probable. I like Python, but for science I like Julia more.

Python and Lisps do directly compete as the preferred introductory language for university computer science classes.

>Freedom is never won forever. Every generation has to fight to keep it back.

This reminds me of the Daniel Kahn song 'Freedom is a Verb'. Great listen that argues exactly this.

No. I live in Mexico City, where it is not unheard of for the government to outright cut off the city water supply for days to account for shortages.

People's preferences haven't changed. Beef continues to be very popular, as do public fountains. The choice not to consume meat (at least here) is mostly associated with pretentious, upperclass people who like yoga and are keenly interested in social justice (there is even a word for this type of person: fresas, which literally means strawberries but here means, well, that type of person).

Eating or not eating meat is more about adopting cultural, class, and identity signifiers than any real correlation with the local water situation.

If nicotine addiction is relatively harmless without conventional cigarettes, who cares? A lot of teens also have mild coffee addictions.

Is this as harmful as, say, Pringles? Or trampolines? I think the reason this stirs up outrage is because it's 'smoking' which is seen as an adult activity that children must be shielded from, whereas many other harmful behaviors are associated with children and thus 'okay'.

People would quickly realize that if they share it under a negative category their share velocity would be hit. A better approach might just be to sentiment-detect negative emotion in Tweets and adjust share velocity accordingly.

I'm a dev with no formal education of any kind, but self taught math and CS. I think it helped me a lot to be exploring the concepts out of a passion for understanding and seeking truth, rather than doing homework I don't understand or care about.

From my (limited) knowledge, CS as a formal academic discipline largely emerged from the renamed Applied Mathematics departments of universities.

I'm a developer in Mexico and this would be a perfect place to do something like that, but I don't have the resources to make it happen and there isn't a strong VC atmosphere here.

Ironically, I think most of Racket's popularity is driven by its Lispiness. People want to get into this 'Lisp' stuff and everyone recommends Racket. I personally learned Racket because as a dumb teen Googled "how to become a hacker".

The first result was Eric Raymond's article How To Become A Hacker, which recommended learning Lisp. I looked into Lisps and ran into the book How to Design Programs which recommended the IDE DrRacket.

Unless they communicate via a hidden service, in which case there is no exit node, so that particular problem is easy to avoid.

I wrote a full feature search engine and web crawler in Racket and it had everything I wanted off the shelf; I was really wowed by how batteries included it was for web development. This was in 2013. It's definitely easier than Node, in my opinion.

I wanted to give a small example to represent the zillion other little small examples that I didn't list

Not OP, but I checked for Austin, Texas, and a part time entry level position is 20$ an hour.

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Waste%20Collector&l=Austin%2C%...

That was one of the first results, but it seems like the average is generally lower, around $15 an hour. My first tech job was as a Linux sysadmin in a web hosting company in Houston circa 2011, which paid 17 an hour.

This was with no formal education or experience (I'd played around with Linux at home and wanted to work with it professionally). So I'd say the claim that garbage collectors make the same as programmers appears to be generally untrue.

This seems a bit silly - it's not like Google's search results are that much better than Bing or DuckDuckGo (or better at all most of the time). Google has Google Colab, Chrome, and Android, and the whole Docs ecosystem, and they've integrated those things together pretty well while still being loosely coupled enough to switch out any part of the ecosystem with a competitor's product.

Is there a reason to break up Google other than that they are doing well? Other search engines seem to have no problem establishing their own niche and doing well.

Racket is great for web development, but it really shines for creating other programming languages.

I'm a data engineer and avid Racketeer. Racket is not at all a satisfactory replacement for Julia if you are doing data science. Specifically if you use Flux, you should know deep learning tools are basically non-existent on Racket. Someone once made a paper called DeepRacket and a Github repo, but it hasn't been touched since.

If someone out there knows more than I do please let me know because I'd love to be wrong. There is some decent linear algebra stuff, at least: https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/matrices.html

Racket is both helped and harmed by it's popularity in certain academic circles. Harmed, in that a lot of graduate students make a thesis of creating some badass library in Racket only to completely abandon it. But I'm still really rooting for Racket, it deserves more hype.

I don't think this counts, but I imagine a significant portion of people learning today learn it because they are Elixir programmers.

This is ridiculously cool. Something in me burns to brush this off, which kind of annoys me. I wasn't aware of how affected I've been by the current wave of anti bitcoin/blockchain/deep learning reaction. It's sad because ultimately, that kind of sentiment just limits the ability to appreciate really awesome stuff that people make, like this.

I madly respect the creator of Bottle for wasting your time on something wondrous and original.