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But not immune to missiles. Russia's already threatened to target Starlink satellites. Maybe they're bluffing, or not, but it does offer a reminder that these are just floating computers in the sky.

OBE?

Simple answer: work for a bank.

Can confirm, these are legit. Make sure you're aware of any outlets on the outside of your building though, as these could be plugged into with malicious intent.

One obvious example of that is when Dropbox was presented here as a startup and was shot down in glorious fashion.

Nice. Mine's not so impressive, but when I was green and in college, I was casually job shadowing an older friend for a day at a major tech company, and was asked to take a look at some code that had an issue.

I spotted the bug in 30 seconds.

It was then I realized that even at the top of our profession, everyone is still human beings with their own sets of strengths and weaknesses, and I have just as much potential as anyone else.

That's an awesome experience. And the sword part may not be true, but it might as well be.

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth." -- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Perhaps they got there sooner, but at what cost to their health, relationships, and sanity?

I dislike this philosophy, that a person in one field of expertise can have nothing constructive to say about another, or can't learn it.

Reminds me of "don't roll your own cryptography." Well, all the standard cryptographic algorithms were rolled by someone, and they had to have thrown out their first pancake too.

Agreed. As much as we talk about how programming is manipulation of ideas...at the end of the day it is a very physical process too. You are manipulating actual physical things in this world. This is a fascinating concept to think about. Programming is physics.

That's a really good point. Nothing is perfect, and frameworks are no different, so after awhile the friction points come to the fore.

Also, I have a theory that with the more common languages, you obviously find a much broader user base of beginner-level programmers, or, worse, programmers who just don't care about quality, which translates to more dysfunctional code in the community in general. My coworker at one company did not have good things to say about PHP, but when he had to take over a PHP project of mine when I left the company, he said it was some of the most well-written PHP he's ever seen -- organized, easy to follow and modify, etc. He didn't even realize PHP could be written in an eloquent fashion. (Not to brag, I've written plenty of bad code too.) Point being that if all you see in a certain language is jumbled spaghetti code, it's easy to think of it as a bad language.

A good programmer should be able to create eloquent code in any language.

Edit: Realized after posting I may have sounded like I thought you were not a good programmer -- that's not what I was saying at all! You can write eloquent code and still be frustrated with what the framework or community forces upon you.

I wonder how many developers hate PHP because one is just supposed to hate PHP.

I'm sure there are many with well-thought-out reasoning though, like seen in this thread.

It's useful to keep an open mind about things though. I'm probably more a PHP fan, but I can't say that I'm a huge fan of its programming style. It's much more enjoyable to me to churn out applications in .NET or in Ruby, but it's hard to argue with the speed at which I can develop in PHP or with the level of support online for doing so.

Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!

Or a restaurant with a smoking section. Right next to the non-smoking section.

This is probably why rabbits have been getting abnormally bold in my yard lately...