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The trouble is that it all adds up to paint a picture of a corporate culture that's a little too comfortable being icky.

It's not about who has what data. It's about what's being done with it.

... 21 meals IS a week's supply.

No, but we have an opportunity to be a leader and not a follower. To be on the right side of history, so to speak.

It's a pretty icky thing to say, to be sure. This person set a new world record and she's receiving comments about her appearance? This woman performed an incredible feat of skill and she's being reduced to her looks. Doesn't sound like much of a compliment when you frame it like that, does it? Sounds like sexism to me.

References to "source code" apply only to video games.

So when they say "game", do they really mean "video game"?

This is a semantic shift that leaves me uncomfortable.

I don't remember when Barack Obama donated money to suppress gay rights.

Because it needs to be bigger.

"Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale." - Gastr Del Sol

> They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information

to implement a feature that's impossible to do any other way. They have a justification for doing this.

Web development in the 90s and early 00s was not a practical substitute for learning how to program. Now, it is.

You make a claim that the low-level nature of the calculator programming was an enticement to you. That may be, but I would hestitate to generalize based on your own experiences. I would suspect that the ability to come up with something that actually does something conventionally interesting trumps the benefits of working close to the metal, ESPECIALLY with young, novice programmers. A few hours of hacking in assembler and you may get to hello world, whereas the same amount of effort in javascript might net you the ability to drag and drop objects around a UI. Which is more impressive to a kid?

Oh, it completely does. My niece this year is required to have a laptop for school. She has to have a PC with her. Now, she has no interest or aptitude for programming, but if any of her classmates do, they can easily fire up a web browser and get to hacking, even without an Internet connection.

Is a graphing calculator really the most obvious way that a young and impressionable mind will find an inroads to programming in this day and age? I find that idea laughable. Tinkering on the web is the obvious modern-day equivalent that is completely neglected when talking about how hostile the modern environment is towards the young creative spirit.