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Have you considered that linguists have studied jargon before? There might even be books about it.

I'm sure they blame it all on remote work, which has nothing at all to do with trying to prop up commercial real estate.

No, I'm sorry, there actually are true believers. I think some people just have trouble countenancing the idea that maybe some of the people we've given all the wealth and power to really are just dolts. This tends to have an unraveling effect on people's personal beliefs.

It's true. Everyone knows you can actually only judge a book by its cover.

What's more shameful is that we've done nothing to make that behavior illegal, at least in the US.

I mean, we didn't really allow them to. Presidents who lost the popular vote appointed them, after other appointees were politically blocked under false pretenses in the Senate ("can't do it in an election year, unless you're a very specific president"). In aggregate, Americans poll much further left than this activist, rightwing court, but that doesn't matter when the electoral minority keeps on winning.

Don't worry, though. The Court has made their decision, now let them enforce it.

It will lead to the destruction of the administrative state, which was the intended result, and which people have apparently forgotten helps keep a lot of people alive and cancer-free. I mean, how many rivers need to catch on fire again before we learn this lesson a second time?

Of course it's the intended result.

Can't developers just... not do that? You can write bad code in any language. What is our responsibility as experts to avoid doing things like this, then?

Code is linked to textual representations because code... is text? The entire point is that there are algorithms to go from "print()" to something that actually makes the computer work. How else could it even possibly work?

I think we don't have any sort of flexible AST sort of thing because they're mostly not necessary. The hard problems of programming don't usually have much to do with syntax.

And if you're going to downvote, kindly explain why, thanks. I just want to know exactly how this thing is supposed to work...

In hostile jurisdictions, maybe. But there are servers all around the world. Take your pick.

And if you know that most of them don't, then you're still negligent. God, this pedantry is getting so incredibly old.

And that's why they're bad using gTLDs anyone would actually ever want to use. "Hey, fellow youths, check out our snazzy new website: statefarm.travelersinsurance! So easy to type on your IBM keyboard, amirite?"

If only there were a better way to deploy that capital. Oh well.

It will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.

The solution is simple: vet the talks, vet the presenter, and don't focus on technology that is popular for grifting. Sorry, but I've been to enough JS/TS meetups to know what's happening. But that world is full of marketing and people who want funding. Compare this to a BSD meetup or a 2600 meetup. Nobody's trying to sell you stuff there.