Sometimes it's easier to try a new idea in a new language (e.g. the borrow checker in Rust) rather than trying to shoehorn it into an existing language.

I like this, but I'd drop the special election in favor of disqualifying candidates who would age out during their term.

If you got rid of those books you'd have more room for cats

Seeing that Thor movie once was 1 time too many. I can't imagine seeing it 33 times.

I went to a top rated engineering school in the US and found the CS program easy. It helped that I enjoyed most of my classes, and that had been teaching myself for years before I got there. I had plenty of free time to spend with friends or whatever else.

While I've certainly had jobs that demanded long hours, I've had others that are more reasonable, and with good pay. It's more possible now to find a good paying job with good work/life balance than when I started working over 20 years ago.

Don't let the negative people scare you away from school or the industry. Ultimately your experience will be your own. If you find that the path you're on isn't working for you, just do something else!

If you don't feel like you're learning enough in your current role, tell your boss! It helps to be explicit about what your goals are in a conversation like this. Ideally they should be able to steer you towards work that better aligns with what you're looking for, or at least find a mentorship situation for you.

I felt like the real prank was on me for having paid money to watch it

The recommendation to make small, focused changes and commit frequently are good practices for using git as well. Any changes a developer has locally are effectively a branch, so I don't see much of a difference between the two approaches, at least in the context of this article.

If C is so great, why do you have to hack in garbage collection?

I use Ubuntu at work. No issues with it.

C++ has had the same style of obtuse errors for decades. They can be a real pain to figure out even if you are used to seeing them.

We had a cat growing up who would chase the neighborhood fox around. They were friends I guess

This just blew my mind. I had always assumed Java was older. I started writing hobby projects in Java in the 90s. I don't think I heard about Python until the early 2000s.

I wonder where they will stop?

probably the ground

Keychron makes keyboards in a variety of sizes, and most you can configure with different types of switches. They're priced well, too. I'd start there.

What don't you like about medium?

Nobody reading about the contest in the linked page should have to rely on Google to fully understand the parameters of the contest. Whoever authored this page is lazy.

While this looks like a handy tool, it does make me think shell scripting itself needs a cleaner approach than what we have currently.

"why" is a perfectly valid question to ask

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem