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If someone recommends me a subreddit, I would check it out. Reddit is not inherently bad. However, you have to understand a lot of us have a negative perception of subreddits, given how many jerks, trolls and bullies participate in them. Even in the good ones there's so much negativity and discourtesy. It's so sad, I personally am afraid to participate most of the time because I admittedly have very thin skin and those kinds of interactions can ruin my day.

Comment · 7 years ago

Your points are completely valid, I get your frustration. But you are comparing against previous generations of MacBooks. I would like to know your thoughts when comparing against e.g. a top tier ThinkPad running Windows or Linux.

Comment · 7 years ago

> In a place I worked, if someone left at 5:30 pm, the CTO used to joke "half day today?", even though the person came in at 9 am.

In both the places I've worked, it's a common joke anyone says when somebody leaves. everybody laughs and nobody gets offended. It doesn't mean anything.

Comment · 7 years ago

Oh, my God! I'm part of the problem!

Comment · 7 years ago

> - early exits to hell that can only be fixed by rewriting What do you mean by that?

Comment · 7 years ago

Wasn't Java problem a a branding issue? Java got a bad reputation of being slow and not looking native. Java apps looked like Java apps. Also, they were so slow that could actually tell when the garbage collector was working. by the time Java got fast it was too late. Even now, .Net guys that didn't bother getting to know Java after its first decade, usually say Java is slow. Something similar happens now with people who hasn't used JavaScript in 15 years saying it's not a real language, etc., etc.

Comment · 7 years ago

Start there, learn English. I know so many potentially good devs that cannot be hired at good paying companies because of lack of English skills. (Speaking of Mexico, btw.)

Comment · 8 years ago

>I suppose Uber could validate the GPS position of the driver and my phone and use that to validate my story, but I doubt they went through all that trouble :(

For that, I assume they would need to have tools built for that specific purpose, with security/audit in place. I doubt any support guy could just randomly query for GPS data for drivers/users.

Comment · 8 years ago

But it terrifies me that you say it like it's nothing and like this digital "purchasing" thing is something new (I am not disagreeing, on the contrary.)

I have avoided and have never bought anything digital for those reasons, but it really is depressing that these things have not been solved by now.

Comment · 8 years ago

Could you explain?

Comment · 8 years ago

But it's not impossible to have some tool that records all of those interactions to reproduce later. A smart enough tool could record everything since you open the site until you click save. It would not reproduce the functionality that is backend dependent, but iy sure can replicate the dom, etc. Am I missing something?

Comment · 9 years ago

Well, why not just make yet another one for one of those more useful languages, but not fall under the same trap of spending too much time on the parser?

Comment · 10 years ago

"frankly in 2016 I am afraid the average undergrad compiler course is part of the problem as much as the solution."

What do you mean by that?

Comment · 10 years ago

Here's the story Joel Spolsky wrote some time ago[1]:

> Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

Comment · 10 years ago

I find that interesting. Could you mention some of those studies?