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Nested ternaries, ungodly amounts of repetition, ZERO tests, hardcoded sensitive info... this code wouldn't pass code review anywhere. I don't care when it was written, any day it is used to send people to jail it should be the best possible code humans can write. And it is so far from that.

But... start ups still pay engineers salaries that dwarf teachers, retail, and many other industries. Should people in those industries not have kids? Are they being irresponsible by not making 6 figures?

What fundamental problems does it solve that layer 3 networking has been unable to tackle? Not pushing back - just ignorant and want to learn!

Campground host. Camp all day every day. Be nice to everyone. Rest for years...

Don't forget init.ai, Botkit, Chatfuel, Chatflow, Last Mile...

That relationship makes so much sense to me in the form Dog - ADHD ~= Cat - Autism. Brilliant!

A family member is a lawyer in the Worker's Comp, SS, and Family Law space. THE software for lawyers in this space is called A1 Law. It solves a lot of real problems lawyers in that space have (form letter generation, calendar integration, case management)... but it's so slow to use new technologies. They advertise PalmOS integration. My family member has to have their own server in a closet running the server version of this so his team can use it! He has no idea how to manage a server, it's absurd that he has to.

Everyone I know in law is dissatisfied with every part of their tech stack. If someone could come up with an integrated SaaS solution, and be SUPER careful about compliance... they would be printing money.

For contrast, I went the other direction. I taught middle and high school math, then got an MS in math (really enjoyed TAing) and started programming. I really appreciate the intellectual stimulation; I love the fast pace with which ideas evolve in the community. But I miss being that teacher who helped someone "get" math.

One of the coolest experiences I've had: one of my students managed to end up in my class for 6th, 7th and 8th grade math... Then 7 years later I hired her as an intern! She totally crushed the internship. Meaningful relationships with students like that, where they still check in occasionally and give me updates on how they are doing and tell me how I changed the way they see things... that is something I miss a lot.

I only started using Hangouts a few months ago, and find the macOS experience acceptable and think the iOS implementation is dead on.

Has anyone used hook.io as an alternative? I have only built toy projects with it, nothing substantial, so I can't speak to important things like error handling, but so far I really like it and find it substantially easier to use than Lambda.

I will make that for you if you want

In the chart of trends in how people meet, there is a suspicious uptick in "at a restaurant/bar" in the last few years... that is totally just a cover for people who met on Tinder and then got serious.

I am a big fan of Linear Algebra Done Right, if you are looking for an actual, dead-tree book with good explanations.

The "fundamental building blocks are too flawed" argument is so strange to me. Too flawed for what? To become, by far, the most popular platform in history for running applications? Because it's already done that.

This is a case of the evidence not fitting the theory well, so people complain about the evidence. If the browser/DOM/HTML/JS ecosystem "technically" is terrible, but in practice dominates the competition, then there is something about it that is better. This is not a fallacy, but a simple supply and demand argument.