mcsmash

I would imagine that this is true for the vast majority of PsyOps people. However. Just because it's true for the vast majority of people doesn't mean it's true for everyone. By your logic the fact that the majority of developers being people trying to make a living banging away at keyboard implies that there are no kernel divers, or AI magicians, or black hole image processors. Yes, it's mostly bags of rice, but someone at the executive level of a major social media platform might, just _might_ be getting orders that are a little above and beyond taking pictures of rice.

This. The internet desperately needs to progress beyond an advertisement driven business model. Disallowing these scripts seems a little heavy handed. Perhaps the addition of a "requestComputeResources" method to the browser's api would give a way to throttle them instead of outright banning them.

And in other breaking news, the sky is blue, things fall down, and water is wet. Please stay tuned for further developments as these exciting stories continue to unfold.

Using the variable names i/j/k for loops is such a widely used convention that IMHO it doesn't really mater for a lot of people. Virtually everyone I know will read "array[i]" and know exactly what's going on.

And believe it or not, those variable names aren't arbitrary. They hearken from the ancient times: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/86911

I think there's a pretty big misconception about what a text editor and IDE even are. IMHO a text editor is program that edits text, nothing more, nothing less. The primary function of all development environments is to edit text, so an IDE is just something that adds tools to make this easier. Pretty much all IDEs have some facility to navigate files, navigate to specific functions, check syntax, build, etc. etc. etc.

So with this definition Vim (and Emacs too) are both IDEs; they're just stripped down so that the developer can choose what features they want to add, or extend it with their own. I'm using Vim for Python, Java, and in the recent past PHP. With the right plugins Vim easily rivals any IDE that I've ever used (to be fair I haven't used that many). It has the added benefits of being widely available, having a bare minimum of requirements, and since it's purely character based it's usable through nothing more than a terminal.

There are plugins that allow for debugging. I was hacking on a web-app that was possibly the worst PHP any one in my office had ever seen. I wouldn't have been able to get ANYTHING done without it. For anyone that's interested: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1152