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Comment · 6 years ago
And wider hips
Comment · 6 years ago
The scenarios you’ve posed doesn’t make candidate 2 any less replaceable. Maybe candidate 1 is needed for whatever advanced AI the dating app uses, but there’s many non-foreign options for the function candidate 2 is performing at ImportantCorp.
Comment · 8 years ago
That point hasn’t been hit yet. Discouraging people from learning programming because you anticipate that point to come soon is unfortunate coming from a manager of programmers. Regardless of job opportunities, which I disagree with but is beside the point, being able to program increasingly allows people to create value and bring ideas to existence.
Comment · 9 years ago
If your only reason to hate a language is that it's making improvements (that you can't/won't keep up with), it would seem that language is doing something right
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Passion implies things other than working longer than everyone else. For example, people passionate about programming often are better at debugging in those 8 hours than someone who wants to just get out.

Also, I don't understand the use of images here. Your first one is basically the equivalent of a cliche speech starting with, "The Marriam-Webster dictionary defines passion as..."

Comment · 11 years ago
Yeah this alone is enough for me to refuse to use something.
Comment · 11 years ago
"To me a phone is a poor man's computer that you have to use when you are on the road, but if you are in front of your desk, there is no reason you should be forced to use an inferior input interface to interact with your accounts when you have a keyboard and a trackpad in front of you."

Well said

Comment · 11 years ago
These are some amazing visualizations.

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