Not even purely for PR value. One of his foundation’s causes is providing free medicines to third-world countries – to stave off their saying “fuck patents” and producing the drugs for themselves, thereby helping to erode intellectual property rights.

Well, I surprised myself by making it through the first video, at least. It was interesting to hear the guy ripping on the “hide the menus” concept as hard as I’ve always done. That shit drove me berserk when it came out.

You didn’t even mention the ribbon lol.

I started working as a professional programmer in the mid-90s when three-tiered design was all the rage: a data access layer, a business logic layer, and a presentation layer. It seems that nobody actually knew what “business logic” was even supposed to be, because I kept inheriting projects where all the middle tier did was hand data objects from the data layer to the UI. In theory this prevented the UI from being fundamentally bound to the data access, but all three layers were always written in Visual Basic which got kicked to the curb in a few years anyway.

Surely the only people buying tickets are teenagers who want to have sex in an empty theater?

Some women like tiny faces. Don’t kink-shame.

Companies that process food are always looking for ways to increase profit.

I was amazed when Campbell’s came out with their line of low-salt soups. The can was slightly smaller, the soup wasn’t condensed (so you didn’t add a can of water to it), and it cost twice as much. You’re paying over four times as much as normal just for them to not put as much salt in the soup in the first place.

I started my career with Visual Basic (3!) and I appreciated the loose typing because it meant I could get going and actually have something running quickly as a newbie. A few years later I switched to C# and saw how an entire class of errors disappeared because of the strong typing. Both have their place, depending on the skill level of the coder and the needs of the application.

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It’s funny, the exact same logic applies to method and variable names. There’s no compiler that ensures that a method’s name accurately describes what the method does or ensures that a variable’s name accurately describes what the variable represents. Yet nobody ever says “you shouldn’t use descriptive method and variable names because they might be misleading”. And this is hardly academic: I can’t count the number of times I’ve run into methods that no longer do what the method name implies they do.

And yet method and variable names are exactly what people mean when they talk about “self-documenting” code.

There are no comments in the code

At my last job, I was assigned to a project being run by a straight-out-of-college developer who felt that not only were comments unnecessary, they were actually a “code smell”, a sign of professional incompetence on the part of whoever added them. It’s an insane philosophy that could only appeal to people who have never had to take over an old codebase.

needs to be in a nursing home

Specifically, in the medicaid wing of a nursing home.

“Dunning-Kruger 2028” would make an amusing yard sign.

“Can’t find a better man.”

One of my “favorites” (not mentioned in the Wiki article) is that in the 1980s Trump offered to pay for the funeral of a child killed by a bear … and then of course reneged.

Look how excited everybody got over those fucking $600 “stimulus” checks. Not even one month’s rent for anybody.

Lol “will”. GOP fuckery is the only reason Republicans have held power for the last 30 years.

Jesus HGH Christ

I have an aunt slowly dying of kidney disease, living on just Social Security. She got hit hard by the Medicare cuts and it hasn’t affected her love for Trump in the slightest. My mom just got a text from her where she says she’s looking forward to meeting “Jesus and Charlie Kirk” lol.

When I first started checking out Nextdoor occasionally (mainly looking for cheap used bicycles) I was hopeful that it was mostly just bots. Unfortunately I started seeing posts from people I actually know in real life, and I was reminded of why I (very happily) bailed on Facebork fifteen years ago.