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What rule did I break to result in being flagged?

Where do you work?

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> Is there no way to treat working for big tech as a business transaction and compartmentalize the negatives?

Maybe you can, but I can't. It's so exhausting when it's an everyday thing. Constantly in Slack. Constantly in emails. Constantly expected to believe the exact same thing and if you don't you're a racist bigot that doesn't deserve life itself.

Not worth it. I value my mental health too much.

I got my start in programming in the early 2000s with Perl and, shortly after, PHP. I went through school mainly with C++ and Java and got a job as a .NET developer after.

I say all this because I fucking hated JavaScript with a passion. From the time of my initial foray into programming until my later years, I hated it. It was always a joke of a language that, honestly, caused me to develop such a bias that I nearly refused to use it, for a very long time.

Several months ago I decided to put my prejudices aside and began playing around with Nodejs and React. The main motivation was trying to learn more about front end development and guess what? I really enjoy JavaScript.

JavaScript is a very enjoyable language to play with. It has come such a long way despite, literally, all odds. The ecosystem is scattered. The build system is the most hacky monstrosity you’ve ever encountered. But, that’s one of the reasons I love it. It feels like the essence of what I feel when I imagine hacking.

And not only that, it uses a unique (at least to the paradigms I’m used to) execution model that is very performant.

These are just a lot of words for me to say I love JavaScript.

Cool project but no real world use case.

Which Twitter needs because they're chat absolutely blows.

Could have just connected your phone to data and tried it out.

I moved from back to front and I can confidently say for me the backend is much easier. But it probably has something to do with doing it so long. I imagine given time I'd decide they're about the same difficulty.

Pleasantly surprised to see that this is a technical discussion instead of a critique against Bob's political views. I went into it fully expecting the latter.

Interesting. I haven't worked in .NET for several years now, but the GAC was always an absolute headache to deal with.

Not surprising. I haven't used Windows 11 but both MacOS and Windows 10 feel more sluggish to me than Ubuntu.