Great, so we're in agreement favoring self interest or principle isn't a blanket decision.

Having a principle that you will put over your own personal well being is not stupid.

It is principled.

We can argue about whether this principle is a good one, but most good things we've had in history have come from people putting principle over their own self-interest.

Why should everyone else change because of what you prefer? If enough people agree then surely people would just collectively change what time they go to work instead of screwing with the clock?

When I had to go to work at an hour I didn't like, I got another job. You could do that. What were you saying about whining?

If you don't like that it's dark when you get home, then get up and start your day earlier instead of waiting to see a magic number on the clock.

Maybe we could use another alternative to the broken system rather than just feeding it more.

I finally have a real credit line after many years of being unable to get any credit but secured loans from local banks. The only thing that changed was getting a secured credit card and paying on it for a few years.

All the typical advice about improving your credit is the Right Thing to Do, but people who are caught in statistical black holes and can't get proper lines of credit--whether they are like me and started from zero or like the subject of the article who had some rough times but are long past it and still unable to recover--need some alternative.

Worse than just having ads in on a paid product, Samsung updated ad-free apps used by paying customers to include ads.

It's not the syntax logic. It's the syntax noise.

There are plenty of things that I'm smart enough to figure out and use that I won't out of resentment for it expecting me to waste brain cycles to decipher what could have been clear.

Things should not be oversimplified, but holy crap should they also not be overcomplicated. Even people who adapt themselves to the weird syntax jungles spend extra mental effort to keep it up. They've just reduced that effort and made it transparent to themselves so they don't care.

But we can do better as a society.

Rust has the unique benefit of being low-level while also having safety guarantees. It is nothing to sneeze at.

Unfortunately, its syntax is an awful mess and it is a pain to read any but the simplest code. Its proponents generally disagree, but it was designed and adopted by people who willingly used C++ in the first place.

He apologizes for things he did, knowingly and unknowingly.

He doesn't apologize for things that he did not do, regardless of the fact that he was accused of them.

RISC-V has an interesting future, but we are still years away from a package to compete with other high-end CPUs and the tooling surrounding it.

Late to reply, but I think this was thoughtful enough to warrant it.

I think that A is a way forward as a proving ground, but it has limited use. Having to include a standard runtime/library is no small impediment to building good websites/applications. A language designed around compiling to Javascript instead of WebAssembly can avoid this issue to a useful degree, and will have better DOM support.

That's just a stepping stone to D, which is browsers supporting a new language outright as a first-class alternative to JavaScript, or supporting a more capable runtime/standard library usable by whatever is compiled to wasm. And when that happens, maybe the DOM model can be improved upon, too.

That is not likely to happen without some new language that happens to meet the need of a some new use case of wide interest. It's not a tomorrow solution, but in time it can happen. I just hope that when it does, it doesn't bring problems with it.

Yes, the reasons behind a language being unnecessarily hard to learn do indeed validate complaints.

Javascript is a mess. Typescript helps. But it is still ultimately salvaging a mess.

Javascript didn't get to where it is by merit. It got there by existing momentum.

Brendan Eich had ten days. It was a miraculous work. But it was extended beyond its utility and the world is worse for it.