jaywunder

Serious question: who didn't expect this? Did anybody think that the 19K high of last week was going to be the new normal?

> High school debate today is basically an intellectual game, not an exercise in truth-seeking. It has been turned into something that can easily be scored. This eliminates the complexity and intricacy of real discourse about real issues. If debate is a game, then the execution of a “spread” is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents’ arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.

I agree with this quote so much. I was on the debate and robotics team in high school, we did extemporary style in debate. I ended up leaving the debate team and focusing entirely on robotics because debate taught students how to argue, not how to listen. Whenever debate kids would leak into robotics, they would cause endless looping conversations talking about different designs.

The main issue is that high school debate doesn't teach how to listen well, only how to hear well. If debate was more freeform so students could actually form opinions based on what they thought about the resolution, then I believe this problem would be fixed. I have a friend who did my proposed style and said that it was extremely fun, and turned debate into a problem solving exercise.

As a node developer I agree with you, I think the benefit with nice might be that relative paths are shorter in node imports?

The last thing the JS community needs is macros IMO. From what I've seen in other languages, macros are difficult to maintain and document, and they add syntax constructs to languages that aren't supported by code highlighters. The difference between this and babel, is documentation. Babel is working off of a specification of how the language should work, whereas I doubt someone will document their macros as well as TC39 does the JS syntax

If projects were shareable then that would be nice, so I could share a report with a cofounder or advisor. Also having edit/view permission for people would be good to control who can edit the budget. And if you're going to do sharable reports, then live edit would also be amazing.

Thank you! This looks very helpful, I'll be using this!

>Truth is you can't find a good woman programmer.

This is disconcerting to hear, and certainly not appropriate. It's not okay to talk about women in that way. As a student in uni, women do just as week and are given just as difficult material as men.

Your comment is off color and mildly mysogenistic.

The reason why I'm okay with Google, but not Verizon spying on me is because I pay Verizon but I don't pay Google. Verizon shouldn't have to sell my data for more money because they already charge money for their service. If their service is too expensive then Verizon can charge more money. However Google gives me services for free so I expect they'll sell my data to other companies.