Notice that you're still "giving" stuff, with conditions. Without the idea of private property, you can't give things because you can't own things. And you can't apply conditions, for the same reason. So no, I wouldn't breach that trust, because there would be no gift and nothing for the trust to apply to. It would not exist to be breached.

What test was that?

If something isn't your private property then you forfeit the right to dictate how it is used. So I could take stuff you've worked hard for, and break it, and you have no right to be upset because it isn't yours.

True, but if your company is already run by crappy HR (and good HR would be involving the existing technical team when evaluating new technical hires) then you probably want to get out as soon as possible. Eventually the company will be almost entirely composed of cheap but useless drones, true, but long before then they'll make the place so tech-hostile that anyone half competent will have left.

None of that is the IDE's fault. All of that is the fault of whoever hired the untrained incompetents. An IDE is not and never has been a replacement for understanding what you're doing.

Yep. And consider that most (all?) of these offer a combination of syntax highlighting, auto indentation, potentially auto-complete and context sensitive help (if only through plugins). They provide a lot of the features traditionally associated with an IDE.

People arguing that "IDEs are bad" need to get their argument straight. Are they saying that learning a language requires separately compiling your code on the command-line? Because that's about the only thing that a good programming text editor doesn't do.

"Your program has crashed."

Think of it as them letting us skip the first three generations of buggy crap that usually comes out before the first 'good' model. They got enough funding that they don't have to rush to market, and they're taking time to really get it right.

It's the same people who say "we had electric cars 100 years ago so the Tesla Model S is neither new nor innovative."

Dactyl Nightmare? :)

You just listed one group of chemicals, and then called out mothers who exposed their unborn children to a different group of chemicals. Make your mind up.

Why not try to get more young men into scrapbooking? There are very few men at all in scrapbooking.

Java as we now know it is nothing like the language as it was originally envisaged. It was originally meant to be a high level language for low powered embedded systems.

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. To be fair, it's been years since I used Eclipse, and it's probably improved out of sight (and/or computers being 1000x faster now compensates for the unwieldyness of Java) but last time I did use Eclipse, it was painfully chuggy.

Forcing people to use their real names online in a publicly accessible way is a terrible idea and will scupper your company. Facebook knows this because Google+ was/is arguably a better product, and was taking off fast, until Google started trying to force real names. Overnight, anyone with any kind of privacy concerns stopped using it and, despite Google still trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to ram Google+ down our throats any way it can, it's not really taking off.