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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
To be fair, it’s probably not Ruby, but the clever linguists I was working with 2008-2012 era.
Everyone brought their preferred syntax and there was much less of a “let’s solve the problem, not be clever” sentiment back then.
That said, Python almost makes such things impossible. Decorator patterns are the only thing I can think of in Python that ever made me really think.
6 to one, half dozen to another. How we start out thinking about problems has an impact on what syntax works for us best later on. I’m in my 40s and started in electronics, designing boards that shipped in Nortel kit.
I started with C and little else, not digging into OOP until hardware work went overseas. Perhaps my brain is over specialized to prefer a particular way of visualizing code I need to write.
Comment · 5 years ago
The so-called by many, Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith, only defined market in terms of a free labor market.
He also wrote that whatever type of government existed in a nation, it would likely need to enforce equality of condition to avoid what we’d call monopoly of labors agency.
He was openly hostile to extreme division of labor, paraphrasing, it would turn humans into the dumbest creatures to ever exist.
Labor hardly seems free when Fed policy has been to tighten screws on workers, growing worker insecurity, to keep them circling back to that cubicle every morning: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
Look at that. Hundreds of years ago humans realized exactly what humans are capable of emotionally and warned against it.
Reminds of me of the ancient Greeks who, again paraphrasing, wrote they hope the rubes do not some day realize there are no gods atop Olympus. Just men on thrones manipulating their fears.
Comment · 5 years ago
Rails is not vanilla Ruby. And web apps are not the only software that needs to be written.
I moved on from Ruby land right as AWS was blowing up, and admitted I have never worked in Rails.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anecdotally, since I got away from Ruby, working on software became way more productive and tolerable.
Maybe it was something with the corner of the Ruby world I fell into, but the syntax sugar options and “cleverness” that enabled was maddening to deal with, and permeated that crowd.
Code bases with mixed styles are a thing in any language, but the Ruby-ists around me found a way to make one project look like half a dozen languages were involved.
Insert Confused Jackie Chan meme.
Comment · 5 years ago
Who controls property is not a political point?
Isn’t that exactly what the legal system is for?
Comment · 5 years ago
Someone old enough to organize and pull off such a sophisticated attack would be around in 65 years?
Surely there are shorter paths to ill gotten gains. Like running for political office.
Comment · 5 years ago
Presumably it’s not hard to read the second paragraph, read that access is controlled by Houthi fighters and Google the name
It’s a science website not a political one
“It’s an intriguing result, and it may lend some weight to the MOND hypothesis for further study. But it’s important to keep in mind that so far the bulk of the evidence still points towards dark matter, and it’ll take much more work to topple that hypothesis entirely.“