Guy spends 20 years doing something and decides he would rather become a writer. Things he used to internally justify the decision, instead of being a sign to change jobs or move to a new city, are now reasons for EVERYONE to jump out of the game.

None of your questions seem relevant, because one ex-coder is not a rigorous study with good selection criteria and clearly reported margins of error.

In my line of work, this guy stands out as an outlier who was looking for a reason to quit. His friends are all apparently employed and doing fine, not complaining about being *this* close to losing the job, or cuts around the corner, or asking how he changed careers.

In other words, his blog sucks.

Unfortunately, Binney may have lots of information, but at least 10% of what he says seems to be conclusions he jumped to based on nothing. That makes it easy for someone who would normally believe 50% to disregard the extra 50%.

I still think he's a crackpot, even though 90% may be true. Yes, even now after reading all of this.

Developers should be able to choose a language based on the problem they are trying to solve, not how the application will be delivered to the user.

So there should be no languages dedicated to the kinds of problems web coders have to solve? Or do you mean all languages should support web problems?

Maybe you object to the term, and we just say development now?

And which languages are no longer available so you can't use their features?

Is it realistic to expect 4% on government money? Last time I checked, banks can borrow money free or nearly so, and rent it out to borrowers.

The whole second paragraph depends on a completely unfounded assumption, and just fell apart.

Your post is written the same way. I could have cared and looked up several different sources of numbers. But I don't.

I actually believe those numbers now, because you sound butthurt and failed to offer alternatives. So congratulations, you achieved the opposite of your goal.

Capture. You mean Captcha? The thing that's as relevant as tea leaves and astrology?

That there is no more meaning than the one you imbue?

That random, unrelated, almost always irrelevant word jumble to which some posters ascribe meaning out of feelings very similar to religion and winning the lottery?

Is that what you meant?

Seems to require JavaScript. I see a white page. So I guess you should consider yourself lucky to see anything.

The animated website I suppose is because of people like you who enable that horseshit.

So I guess I take that lucky comment back. You got the internet you deserve. Quit yer bitchin.

First world problems.

You embarrass me. I like tech, but you really lost your perspective here. Sure it is a stupid rule. But the anger over the current state when you alone are at fault is staggering.

And it leads to bad conclusions.

Why not take this opportunity to plan your charging a little better, regardless of the new rule? And leave the arguing to more rational thinkers.

Mandating efficacy is the best defense against snake oil sales. Fear of lawsuits polices safety.

The only way to prove a drug safe is to have people use it for years, and see how many die or incur damage. It us better to take the health risk on effective medicine, instead of on snake oil, yes?

Personally, I think all new medicine should be on limited release for 10 years, only for those not helped by existing medicine. That limits exposure and effectively operates as phase 4 trial. But why take the risk if it doesn't do anything? Proving it works can be done in a month or two for most everything, but proving safety takes much longer.

Also, FDA does revoke approval for safety concerns, so it is not just ignoring safety.

Saying government is better at regulating is WAAAY different from advocating regulating everything. Would a child's lemonade stand be better regulated privately?

And how do the mentioned agencies relate to regulation?

Complete nonsense, F- try again.

One counter example does not equal "complete garbage".

This one is harder to detect by the prosecution.

Thanks, but it doesn't fix the headline, and it doesn't prevent future copying content-free verbiage directly from terrible writers. I would not have thought of looking for "underwater habitat" myself.

Correct. Headlines are the worst offenders at information dispersion, and I ignore them unless I'm certain I missed something.

My argument stands. Your assignment is not complete.

Get back on your choo choo train and quit yer bitching.