Throw it in a pool tho.

*pushes up glasses*
Uhh, you forgot CVS.
*Is thrown out a window*

Computer Science professors: "mathematically, arrays should start at 1"
Me: "lol. No."

I think having to write code in languages you dislike is a good educational resource. At college I had to write something in Small talk. I hated it, and I learned a lot about the antecedents of object oriented language design.

Eat your vegetables. (Edit: at the very least you'll gain sympathy for people who work at Facebook)

@CWins 1. Add comments as you make changes and/or research code to figure out how to make changes. 2. Place any special information in a document in a document in the format of your choice so other people can read it. 3. Be very patient.

@lolnick @lolnick oh jeez. I didn't even realize how terrible this is. I just assumed it was a regular "I'm using single line conditionals" kind of terrible code.

Using this construct is actually a super dangerous programming practice because of how brittle it is. Google "goto fail".

...and the parser rolls its eyes at both while it continues slurping up lexemes.

Sounds like a guy who deserves to have BonziBuddy installed on his workstation (and it probably is...).

Damn, I remember when GameMaker was an educational thing and costed 20 bucks.

Well, we're *told* they exist...

This is actually pretty awesome. Did they style the chrome console? I didn't even know you could do that.

Apparently kink.com used to do consulting work with MSNBC et. al. under the table when all those news networks were trying to get into streaming media for the first time. Porn companies tend to be *way* ahead of the curve on information technology trends.

I had a boss who does his taxes using a prolog script he wrote. I'm positive I'm going to hear about him getting audited through the nose by the IRS one of these days.

IMO, Facebook is always kind of a mixed bag when it comes to open source software projects. A lot of their more interesting stuff came directly out of the fact that they needed to devote some of the most brilliant minds in engineering at the time to counteracting PHP's bad language design. It tends to be: "Hey guys, we built this huge complicated thing we use internally, and we're releasing it so we can say we're super active in supporting free software. *plops down bucket of Java packages*" That being said, I think React is a well designed tool. I especially like that it doesn't try to be a kitchen-sink solution to everything you might want to do in a web app. It's certainly worth looking at if you're turned off by the more opinionated approach of things like Angular/Ember/Vue/whatever.

Moving tabs to the left and hitting "close all tabs to the right" is kind of like doing manual mark-and-sweep with reading material.

I don't think that's entirely fair. I'm a pretty early employee at my company, and I've been able to watch the sales process pretty closely. IMO the problem is that it's pretty easy to be a mediocre salesperson and exceedingly difficult to be a good salesperson, and what tends to separate them is a sense of realism. That sounds counterintuitive since being in sales means having to persuade customers and users that your product is the best thing ever even though investing in that product constitutes a risk, and in many cases is largely unproven (at least if you're a startup). When sales is doing its job well, they're giving the customer some positive spin while also managing their expectations so engineering and everyone else can actually fulfill those expectations... and that can be especially difficult when customers get impatient (which they always do). Plus you often get paid on commission, which can be pretty tough. Sales people aren't stupid just because they're not programmers.