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> as someone who has kept track of their skittles color distribution over the course of a year

I mean did you not expect someone ask why? Also, why?

The script-markup mixture used by DoubleDollar or Backbone is really just a necessary quirk to achieve templating functionality. I haven't seen it done better honestly.

Try it, you're refusal to "get past the need to mix markup and code" is restricting you from some pretty helpful functionality if you build JS heavy web apps!

They don't consider it inhumane, because it lies around the general treatment these people will get for the majority of low wage low skill jobs in China. This unrest is good though, as it compliments the already staggering turnover rate Foxconn endures with its employees, and will lead to marginal improvement over time assuming low skill job demand is competitive enough in China.

Who says we're here to learn?

This is due to one of my least favorite traits about reddit: the hivemind criminalizes the rich and powerful by defining them as naturally evil. I don't know how this mindset got started on reddit; I would love to find out. It seems to be their way of justifying being middle/lower class by saying the reason the rich/powerful succeed is due the rich/powerful not having a heart and gaming people of their money.

I think most programmers and engineers have personalities that constantly question their own competency. This is predominantly a good quality as it leads to much more rapid talent development, but it also leads to irrational actions like recreating libraries out of fear that you're "not a real programmer" if you use the work of others.

> Black Hat Independent security consultant Stefan Esser...

Is it correct to be calling him "black hat"?

Although I have taught myself a decent amount, I always just thought that I would wait until I had a proper CS degree. Plus I don't have much free time. I'm working 40+ hours a week for a startup now, learning the environment and what it takes for one to succeed.

Smaller changes, smaller cakes.

I don't like that Coffeescript requires a compiler to create the actual javascript, but that they don't offer a cross-platform solution for this compiler. Yes, you can get the compiler working on Windows with Cygwin, but a better solution would be a windows compatible compiler that didn't make me go through the hassle of setting up Cygwin in the process.

The combination of BeautifulSoup and mechanize also makes tasks incredibly simple.