Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency.
It's disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem.
You are obviously referring to Python
You can't slip nothing past these stonelets.
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I'm not sure I would hire anybody who spergs this much about tooling.
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Good, someone needs to say it. I wish Python fanatics could simply admit their favored language is trash and inconsistent. It's OK to like it; your betters will recognize you have bad taste.
Hate me, but VBA is better designed than Python.
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I just can't stand the stupid enforced whitespace.
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The fact that I can't do:
is legitimately annoying when trying to do one liners with
python -c '...'
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Ruby is for people who huff their own farts.
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I've had obsessive questions that take a minute to answer, questions that I've explained why I'm entitled to have answered. You would rather I suffer with things that have tortured me for weeks than take a minute to answer me?
Why? Why do you enjoy my suffering.
Why do you enjoy anyone's suffering?
Someone bullies innocent but weird people or vulnerable groups, and says they deserve it for whatever reason. I tell them they should have pity for a good, logical reason.
We argue and they tell me to frick off when they run out of point today and despite my effort I can't get the validation of winning an argument.
So what am I to do? Let it go? Consider all that time a sunk cost?
If someone is going to try to justify being an butthole to vulnerable people then why can't I am I not justified in being an butthole to defend those people?
Know this:
This website and the cruelty here, the apathy towards other people's hurt, the enjoyment you seem to get out of the suffering of already vulnerable people, whether the homeless or trains or anyone else, has lessened my view of humanity to the point where I no longer want to live on this planet.
I tried to love people once, despite how I was bullied as a kid for nothing but being neurodivergent and weird, I tried to love humanity.
You remind me of the truth.
Goodbye.
Snapshots:
https://web.archive.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34243498
ghostarchive.org
https://archive.ph/?url=https%3A//news.ycombinator.com/item%3Fid%3D34243498&run=1 (click to archive)
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