Recently found out about https://elan.school/ which ended up being run by ex "students." It's not the same thing, but there are parallels. Conversion therapy is essentially brainwashing at it's core, and I find it fascinating (in a horrifying, train crash, can't look away, kind of way) that in both cases, ex members become involved in perpetuating the horror.
eta: I agree it does not absolve them
Who's trying to make friends? Burn them at the fucking stake, I say!
Yes and no. I agree that camel vs snake or that stupid mNameThing that was popular for a while, doesn't reeeeeaaally matter, although I would argue that convention over the language still has value. As an example, naming a Java variable with a capital letter would be confusing and annoying to any new devs joining the project, even if it's a valid identifier. Also it's handy to be able to look at something in ALL_CAPS and know that it's probably a static final, without having to check it's definition. I guess it's about finding that line between useful conventions and pedantry.
Dear god please no. This way madness lies. Your idea of "whatever you think works best" is not going to line up with whatever the next person that comes along thinks, and your codebase is about to get all kinds of fucked up.
Thinking code complete is going to save you is naive. Even in languages like C and Java, where it works best, you still need to be able to read and understand the code in context. There's no hope in a language like Ruby with all it's meta programming stuff
I'd say it's because Apple's implementation isn't essentially spyware at it's core. The Microsoft implementation was straight up deranged and dangerous, frankly.
Cool! I'll get started on building Snowpiercer then
oh god, I'm going to hell.
This is awful and I feel for the guy and his family...
but I can't help but laugh at "Wactor the actor"
Hey, don't beat yourself up about it. Who hasn't accidentally bombed a camp of displaced peoples? The important thing is to apologize and try not to ~~get caught~~ bomb the next one.
Now we're scraping the bottom Quark of the barrel?
(Come on, someone do better than this please, this was terrible!)
Is this so you can yell "DOWN QUARK" when he jumps up on the sofa?
So what I'm hearing is: Fauci DIDN'T shoot a puppy in a gravel pit for essentially getting too excited...
what a monster /s