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Re:Redfin Cuts 13% of Staff, Shuts Down Home-Flipping Business on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:37PM (#33535030)
- Abuses building code for a non-safety purpose

- Net reduction in quality of housing stock

- Reduces capital investment in housing during a shortage

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Re:Sane Async Patterns in JavaScript on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:34PM (#5494749)
Promises are about as clean as you can get in a purely async environment.

Yet, notice how no one shows off how easy it is to write a loop. Oh, and what happens when your code throws an exception? It's as though that path halted forever.

Also, what happens when you have a method defined as

result = foo(args);

that now needs to perform an async operation? Enjoy refactoring every call site.

Wait. Let me see if I can summarize: Some teachers somewhere are corrupt and poor at their job, ergo all teachers worldwide should be forbidden from monetizing their hard work???

Let me try out a corollary: Some engineers sometimes wrongly steal code from their employers when they leave for a new job, ergo no software engineers should ever be allowed to work for more than one company.

Yep, this argument is air tight.