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It's kind of cliché, but I suspect many programmers fall in love with computers because of communication issues.

Believe it or not, I have never tried Chrome, always been using Firefox. Why are people switching to Chrome?

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Aurelius

We need to stop trying to enforce "the truth" to other people. Just let people talk and have different opinions. That includes letting people having conservative values, because lately this thought police is getting out of control.

It's funny how the media are saying this kid defending himself from the violent mob is the devil for using self-defense and protecting the city, but at the same time Jacob Blake (who was charged with sexual assault and had a long history of violence) is an angel. We are living 1984. The truth is the opposite of what we are being told. All values are inverted.

I don't get it. Is Mozilla a Neo-Marxist organization now?

Why don't you talk about software development instead? About building FireFox? About disrupting tech?

It seems Mozilla is now run by people more interested into communism than actually building a fucking software and bringing value to the world. RIP Mozilla.

Media are endlessly debunking QAnon and PizzaGate, yet no media is investigating things like Epstein network (Mr Clinton traveled like 30 times in the famous island - he must really liked the beach).

"combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism"

WTF?! I mean, maybe you should actually build the best web browser instead of doing politics.

Laravel LiveWire + Alpine.js can do 80% of SPA needs from your PHP backend code.

https://laravel-livewire.com/

When I was young, I thought we would have flying cars and all live in peace/harmony by 2020. Guess what? In 2020, we are almost back into the crusades.

Also, there is this nice serie on Netflix about the fall of Constantinople/Istanbul:

https://www.netflix.com/ch-en/title/80990771

It's too complicated.

Just look at how Svelte is doing components. It's way better and easier.

Why not invest in the US and the black community?

The night is dark as opposed to daylight.

This is racist.

Do you have a plan to change that already?

Why not using a namespace like stdlib/datetime instead of this weird named Temporal thing?

Have a look at that to understand what's going on and where this madness is heading :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1340&v=2vyBLCqyU...

FB being "cancelled" by the "wake mob" just make me think FB may be not that bad after all.

Sorry, it's because I am French, my English is not that good yet.

My country (France) is sinking: daily violence, ethnic gangs, religious fanaticism, tribalism, women being harassed daily in the streets. It's really scary for the future actually.

So when I read comments on HN about disbanding the police, it seems to me that some guys in here have lost touch with reality. It's not because you are a good person with moral values that all people in the world are like you.

What could go wrong? Lunatics are running the asylum it seems. Authority is always here. Disband the police and you will get another arbitrary authority (being gangs, some kind of political repression, and so). There already are no-go zones in Europa where the police don't go anymore, believe me, you wouldn't want to live there.

If you don't want the official police anymore, why not starting with your place, your home and your family?

Thanks your answer! :)

Just a question. Will we actually see those things in the nightsky? I hope not...

All these "good" people pushing for censorship of a democratically elected president and social networks. Don't you see this is precisely what tyranny looks like?

Yes, net neutrality was for Internet providers to just be some kind of pipes that don't prioritize some websites over others. I think a platform like Facebook is a bit like that on a higher level. It's about information distribution, not about being an editor of contents.

I live in Europa, so really I don't get what's happening in the US right now, but this Wired article seems so partial and biased against Trump (and Zuckerberg).

It's a problem I see more and more in the media: taking side politically. Remember net neutrality? This was one one of the founding stone of Internet.

Peer pressure, pushing people and platforms, this is what looks like tyranny to me - not Trump nor Zuckerberg.

And of course I will get downvoted by these same people talking continuously about diversity of opinions and freedom of speech.

No Firefox, no! Please don't embed distraction directly into the browser (pocket recommendations)! I don't want to hear about Coronavirus or ongoing politics bullshit whenever I open a tab! I just want to ignore this noise.

> Why do you only come out of the woodwork en masse when it's the right wingers being censored?

Because only the right wingers are actually being censored...

I despise David Icke but I think platforms like YouTube or Facebook should remain neutral. It's not their job to tell us what people should be looking at or not. Then what? We end up like China where we can only browse government propaganda?

Yes, `let` is fine. I use `let` 99% of the time in my personal projects, it's more convenient, but I often must use `const` when working on an existing codebase. :(

Most of JavaScript devs do like you, they default to `const` and if they need to reassign the variable, they switch to `let`.

To me it feels more like a ceremony for declaring a variable than a rational and a useful practice. :)

Have a look here:

https://jamie.build/const

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1208369896880558080 (React core team member)

https://twitter.com/littlecalculist/status/91787524189167616... (Ember creator)

I agree lukifer. Immutability is useful and interesting, but `const` in JS not really about immutability, it's about variable reassignment (which is trivial to handle really, even for a noob programmer).

const arr = ['foo'];

arr[0] = 'bar';

assert(arr[0] === 'bar'); // !!!

Something like that would make sense though IMHO:

const PHI = 1.618;

I don't get how JS is designed really, they try to solve a bad design (`var`) but they introduce another bad design (`const`) and they make things even messier. Many devs ship JavaScript thought TypeScript these days, so I hope Microsoft can clean this mess one day.

On a side note, I find crazy this obsessive-compulsive behavior to use `const` everywhere in modern JS codebase (even in Webkit now).

It solves really no problem (I mean, Python, Ruby and almost all other programming languages are doing fine without preventing against variable reassignment, and we can still reassign function parameters and object properties in JS).

So much brain power wasted on this useless thing.

Also using `const` everywhere is semantically misleading and ugly. It's not what you would expect in 99% of other programming languages out there.

It seems the Spanish flu first targeted old people, and almost disappeared during summer, before returning during fall and targeting young people. I hope it won't be like that this time.