GlennS

Difficult. I will attempt to answer this in a way that won't upset people and may be informative?

Here are two ways of looking at it:

a. People in the USA* have massive fights about things that no-else cares about, and software projects put up a statement about those. This is off-putting to everyone else.

b. The USA is ahead of the curve on some political movements, and the article is expressing conservatism/anti-conservatism/a reaction towards being expected to act according to morals that aren't majority accepted in their country yet.

To decide for each particular movement whether it's (a) the wave of the future or (b) a passing fad? Who can say? You are supposedly an autonomous moral being, so use your own judgement.

*This is true of any place and any people, but everyone else has to put up with the USA's quirks because rich influential explosives. You could substitute Twitter for the USA here. Hey, who gave Twitter all those stealth bombers?

Honestly I guess it's just a difference in taste/demenour.

My background was originally in C# then Java (plus JavaScript on the side, since most of us have to do that), and when I first came to Python I found it to be a lovely language and a breath of fresh air.

I guess I would say to me it feels neat and tidy, thoughful about interface design, and gives me a sense of quality. I get a similar feeling from Clojure (perhaps even more so).

I don't find static typing as valuable as you do, and additionally I find the cost in verbosity and in time wasted solving type-checking puzzles quite painful. Perhaps if I'd spent more time with one of the more sophisticated type systems I'd feel differently (Java and C# are quite limited here), but not convinced enough to try.

Why would you ever leave a voicemail when you can leave a text message?

I think I disagree with all the advice in your comment, but this part has me particularly baffled.

I often write out callstacks/dependency chains on paper. I find that makes it stick.

Try actually using the program as an end user would.

Read error messages, read code, make predictions about what the code does, find out if your predictions are true.

I've had two climated-related jobs, and I would recommend it.

I find it very motivating personally. It also means you'll be working with decent people who care about their work.

Don't expect to be paid top dollar though!

I don't, sorry, just found it by Googling.

Not knowing anything about how Google works internally, this is very much how it looks from the outside.

They just don't seem to be able to make products that anyone wants. And the products they made before which people did want just drift in a generally worse direction as they fiddle with them randomly over time.

The people in the past who broke from mainstream culture and went experimental faced disapproval too.

Maybe you just need to hang out with weirder people?

Still gutted they never made Grand Theft Auto: Weston-super-Mare.

> This is true despite the fact that you know exactly when the market will hit a bottom. Even God couldn’t beat dollar-cost averaging.

I'm a bit unconvinced by the studies that say this, because I don't think the "buy the dip" strategy they're talking about is the same one that people are running.

The studies describe waiting for a low point in a given year (or even across multiple years!) then lumping in all your money then.

Whereas I think what people actually mean when they talk about buying the dip is shifting their dollar cost averaging buy-in by days, weeks, or at most a few months, while they wait for the market to get spooked.

I don't do this at the moment. I had a "wait for the US president to say something stupid" strategy which seemed to work for a while, but of course I don't really have enough evidence to back that up.

Ah yes, sorry, I was very unclear there.

Mediawiki Visual Editor is fine to use.

It's not fine to make plugins for.

I haven't worked with it in almost that long, but I still hate it quite a lot.

I try not to be too fussy about tech overall, but Spring is on my "I won't work with this again" list:

    1. Spring
    2. Mediawiki Visual Editor / OOJS UI
    3. Typo3

Your comment is incomprehensible.