undergrowth54

Which CLI debugger are you talking about? I thought one didn't exist

The author's frustration with the lack of customizable shortcuts is my biggest issue with chrome devtools as well. This is especially frustrating when I just want to pop a debugger statement in the middle of a node.js unit test so I can step through things, but node.js requires that you use the browser for debugging. (EDIT: apparently there is an IDE from jetbrains[1] that lets you do this too) This past Friday I started poking around to see what it would take to write a terminal-based browser in the style of the python debugger and found that the v8 team at Google has been working making the debugger separable from the browser since at least February of this year[2].

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

[2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14174a95a597cac7b848fe...

He's a pretty cool dude. I haven't seen him since moving down to ATX.

I suppose the problem is that there is no canonical standard of ethics to which we can point. We should write one.

I...I would have thought that this would be an obviously unethical request to comply with.

Growing up, I think the reason I as a nerd was unpopular was: 1) Lack of a sense of style: I did not give any thought to dressing well until I took a UX design class in Junior year in college. Before then, I thought of it as something utterly frivolous.

2) Lack of common conversation topics: I wanted to talk about military history and politics and physics. Very few people in elementary and high school were interested in that. So I got very little practice in conversation skills.

3) Not just of social skills, but knowledge of how to learn social skills: I had been painfully aware since 3rd grade that I lacked "social skills", but I really didn't know what these were or how to learn them. I did read How to Win Friends and Influence People in Jr. High, but it taught me little about how to hold a conversation. Even to this day, I don't actually know how to go about gaining social skills or what those skills actually are. Just one month ago, I learned that there was a skill to conversing so as to make sure everyone present had the context to understand the conversation and wouldn't feel excluded. If I'm now 24 and only just now realized this, what other things have I missed?

Why might nerds in general have the problems I had? #1 takes money, which kids don't have until starting age 16. #2 sort of defines nerdiness: if you have this set of interests you're a nerd. If other people have these interests, you're lucky. #3 is hard because it must be learned by a means that are different from academic knowledge or a fandom's canon. You can't really read things[1] and tinker with things and work through problem sets to figure out. Near as I can tell, you just have to have a lot of social interaction and be very aware and attentive to people as you do so.

[1] There are some books and blogs that are useful:

- How to Win Friends and Influence People (general; a classic)

- What Every Body is Saying (Body language)

- Dr. Nerdlove (dating)

- Cpt. Awkward (dating & other relationships)

- Getting to Yes (negotiation)

- Difficult Conversations (understanding emotional impact of words)