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- if you have any closed source projects on e.g. BitBucket mention this on your resume;

That reminds me beer ads in eastern Europe :). They show successful people enjoying themselves in a cosy pub. But reality is vomit and alcoholism. Not sure that someone selling an unhealthy legal drug/stimulator is a good role model. Unless you are trying to build a better Happy Farm clone.

"Any programmer ignoring JavaScript is doing themselves a disservice."

Not really. You get to work with a buggy language and you loose competitive edge on the work market. Management's/business's point of view could be different though.

What do you do when you don't like someone's use of freedom of speech? Try recruiting a mob to bully them.

Err... Not available for Windows -> FAIL. You should reflect this in subj to avoid peoples' frustration.

"I’ve always dreamed of having a little house, a really small little house" the thing is that it's not economically possible for everyone to have those.

But it might get drastically colder :).

At higher price people will complain about lack of standard apps. I doubt there is a phone-friendly HTML5 Angry Birds out there.

What if that car is a real chick-magnet though?

"bought" a house or taken a loan?

No thanks, we do not need civil wars.

Completely new to Scala but I think that "18 ways" code sample is a bit exaggerated. It is just a choice between C#-ish "a => a + 1" and Haskell-ish "_ + 1".

Is it a thought experiment or something that author suggests people use for real-world commercial projects? It would be nice to see some sort of feature comparison table (vs Lua, vs JS etc.).

We need to fix the root of the problem - evolution-derived protein bodies.

"Find the nearest intelligent life form" ...that is not carnivorous and is not interested in our resources and is not interested in exterminating us for whatever reason.