This is my recommendation for @recdiffs and Merlin specifically, but I suspect he might have heard it so really this is just a shameless excuse to plug The National doing a great cover of a great song written by Polaris (the band from Nicklelodeon’s Pete and Pete.)
It feels like some Americans are so blinded by an Ayn Randian fear that our wealth is being sucked from the bottom by those on some dole that they can’t see it’s being sucked from the top by those who will someday decide the gains aren’t worth the investment.
More and more it seems likely that @NanoRaptor‘s Tweets are coming from some parallel universe where an Apple gone mad with hubris dominated the 90s. She is the woman in the high castle.
😫 👈 Me, a fan of progressive disclosure, while reading a chapter about how arrays work behind the scenes in an introductory course to a language.
Me: Yo VS Code, let’s also open this project. VSC: In place of the project that’s already open? Me: No. “Also” means that I want to have both projects open. … VSC: You’re funny (opens other project in place of the project that’s already open.)
Turns out that the party who welcomed those who opposed democracy for all a half century ago opposes democracy today.
Who’d’ve thunk?
(Ans: Many, many people.)
I wonder if this sort of failure is still somehow more acceptable for web apps than native ones.
