astrodev

To be fair, Ronaldo is known for exceptional work ethic.

> combination that is increasingly rare in an economic system designed to squeeze out the inefficient

As a result, more and more areas of science and technology get stuck near local maxima. The same happened in all ancient civilisations.

The European people, actually.

Sex robots. Disrupting the power of women in the sexual marketplace is bound to yield unprecedented profits.

On the other hand, having learned PHP inside-out as my first language, this is perfectly natural to me, and I miss the flexibility of PHP arrays in other languages :)

Before the usual avalanche of posts criticising some PHP 4 features, the union types look like a nice way to formalise something that is commonly used and very useful.

Life changing.

I went to a school in south-west Poland. My experiences were not too dissimilar to those described here, so I think this account is entirely plausible.

Maybe stolen for scrap metal (would not be that unusual, as absurd as it sounds)

> I like the idea of taking periodical snapshots to have a feel that you are almost connected with your team mates

I hope you are being sarcastic.

I am fortunate enough to work remotely, so I can have a very productive environment during the week, too.

And what's not done by Friday, is not done, not my problem really since I'm paid by the hour.

> High levels of intellectual ability allow you to write software with better abstractions and cleaner interfaces.

If anything, the opposite is true in my experience. People trained in writing clean interfaces write clean interfaces. The very purpose of abstractions (etc.) is to reduce the cognitive load on the programmer. The dumber the programmer, the more he needs those things.

There are no problems, it's basically perfect.