you could negotiate yourself a better salary than your peers even if you underproduce, but are better at negotiation .. so yeah, pardon me for not drawing a straight line from the freedom to negotiate salary to a superior meritocracy

Sometimes I wonder if US schools teach anything at all.

On what planet was "there was always one?" Oh right, on none planet.

My feeling today after having both learned some rust and working with people who know rust really well now - in an environment and industry in which we're all c/c++ heavy hitters and have plenty of reasons, both technical and inertia/career/ecosystem based to favor them - is that rust is coming for lunches. Comments like yours, I suspect it doesn't really matter for you in any economic sense, so it's easy for you to act like you know. Just know that you're wrong.

thanks for the good belly laugh

comes flooding in either from government or directly from the owners of government

perhaps they've just invested in your tinfoil supplier, they must be doing very well

Biden: a senile psychopathic career criminal

woo, disinformation works!

That anyone worries about? The linux kernel code style guidelines proscribes an 80 char limit strongly. We have one at work too, and just about every place I've worked at (games, commercially with the big players) generally has guidelines. If you won't do it, .editorconfig will for you.

That doesn't make a lick of sense. If they can charge an arbitrary amount, they'd already be doing that.

Harhar, but .. 25.44 billion revenue in 2023, 140 million penalty. If they want to "make it back" in a year, their average fare (@ $140 dollars in 2021 to pick a number) would increase by something less or around a dollar. I'm sure they're not happy about having to pay the penalty, but it probably doesn't move the needle on comparative pricing to the consumer.

I'm curious what your opinion would be after you've actually used Rust.

And as we know, everything that comes off the assembly line works properly. Okay, so sometimes it doesn't, but it's only a nuclear reactor.

Wow! Somebody should get on that! Have you told them?

I general I agree with your sentiment - PHP suxors - but Wordpress is big business, and it's PHP. WP is not aimed at enterprise sized applications, but it's reach is huge and it ain't going away anytime soon.

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