In the 1980's, IBM (among others) invested lots of money to have legislation passed that makes programmers, engineers, and sysadmins into "salaried professionals" so that they wouldn't have to pay overtime.

The only way that could possibly be reversed is a group larger and more powerful than the owners of tech companies fighting to reverse it; that is to say, the organized tech workers will have fight for our own standard of living. We won't be able to do that until we are actually organized, though. Perhaps the sporadically striking fast food workers who were previously thought to be powerless can set an example for us.

...it's probably not something you should use to play games

Like many others, I had several shitty jobs during college. One of those jobs was delivering pizzas for Papa John's. Running in the office of our store was a desktop computer with some really locked-down Linux on it that was limited to running some awful console program and a PDF viewer.

like so many other articles, this just seems like another reminder to never ever use godaddy

How will you take a picture and send it to the server without JS in the browser? Not to mention how much bandwidth that would use...

*turns entire countries into catastrophes

If I'm going to damn my soul, I'd rather find other ways

Undeclared variables are implicitly global. A code inspector will warn you about mistakes like that!

It should be clear from the way it's used or by the documentation (if it exists). This is true of not only Javascript, but every dynamic language. If that's not good enough, use one of the readily-available and straightforward debuggers. Another quick approach is to just console.log(var)

"please don't make me learn how to use Javascript properly"

Let's see how it deals with my IBM model M keyboard

Maybe you don't "get" Google's Dart strategy. It's ActiveX all over again, but with more technical finesse.

How is Dart cross browser? It only runs in Chrome. Does having a cross compiler to JS make it cross browser? That'd make any language cross browser, which is to stretch the definition to the point of meaninglessness.

Javascript isn't rocket science to use. You've just got to put in the effort to read a couple books to understand that it requires different design strategies from other OO languages. The scoping, prototypes, and events are actually really nice if you bother to learn how to use them properly.

It's no problem for people in Copenhagen. Minneapolis also has a pretty big modal share for bikes, in American terms. The infrastructure and vehicles are cheap to build, take up little space, are far less deadly, and cause no air or noise pollution. I'd love to see bike infrastructure built up everywhere.

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/11/copenhagen-cycling-in-snow.html

No, I'm reading e-books on Safari so that this meeting isn't a total waste

That's how business works in general. You want to write good code, but deadlines and shifting goalposts turn all your best plans into a swamp.