Doesn’t it strain your eyes tho? I thought the appeal of having an e-reader is having the screen easy on the eyes.

Thanks, I didn’t realize it was possible. Well, not gonna start arguing about mod policy, but I think down votes would have been just fine here. Anyway, no strong feelings in any direction here.

I bet you were very badly wrong in your comment, but I would have at least like to see it (and down vote it too if it deserved it). I don’t need protection from stupid, just illegal or outright racist/offensive.

Greedy assholes definitely ruin a lot for all of us.

Harari claims something similar in his book Sapiens, so it might not be so far fetched. However, even then people would have to pay for being alive with their work, even if it’s less.

This is true also when you have strong unions to bargain for good benefits. Still, you need to do some work, as opposed to the message of the meme “you have to pay for being alive”.

The only problem is the exploitative angle of the whole thing. They do underpaid work, but the farm owning corporation gets to keep the profits.

Before 1989 there was also a third option: move to West Berlin!

Has there ever been a time in human history where we were just allowed to exist for our passions and not work for survival? Our economic system definitely has its flaws, but this meme paints with too broad strokes.

Yikes, lots of downvotes for this one! I can only assume it’s because the downvoters didn’t bother to watch the video. It’s Bobby Fingers, who is not exactly a JR fan.

Edit: Seriously guys, I’m very disappointed in you.

Don’t worry, it is said in the video.

Saying dumb shit with smart words is pretty tight tho.

Anyone care to comment why so many down votes?

Why would it be interesting to watch some clueless knob not being able to use a system that’s really not that hard to use? Ragebait?

Yeah, but the joke’s on you: I’m probably wrong about most things!

(good video tho)

For me it was the moment they changed the skin color of a franchised character I used to watch when I was 6. I had to change my opinion of social policy, foreign policy, Russia, immigrants, minorities, environment, taxes and women. I wish I had a choice, but I was literally made to do this by the far left extremists who run major corporations like Disney.

I’m also a pretty good person tho.

This was reasonably interesting. However the video quality was for me for some reason really garbage, and it was impossible to see any finer details.

And I suppose you like if the democratic party offers an illusion of choice amongst clones of candidates who are in the pockets of the same donors?

Well, bad code is bad code regardless of the paradigm. I’ve just had bad experiences rewriting some horrible OOP codebases and opted out to use as much functional style as C# allowed me to.

The main problem, as I see it, is that OOP encourages unnecessary abstractions and inheritance. These should be used as little as possible, because they typically increase complexity and make code harder to read and untangle. As an example, I’ve seen people define interfaces that don’t essentially define anything.

Another problem is that OOP encourages mutable member variables. It’s very annoying to try to understand code where class C inherits from class B that inherits from class C. Good luck debugging when the methods of C modify a variable declared in A in subtle ways.

As an idea OOP is very appealing. When I was younger, I would be thrilled to start designing a class hierarchy and interfaces when encountering a new programming challenge. Now I just try to think how to make things as simple and modular as possible.

Edit: of course bad functional code is also bad code. It’s also very annoying to try to understand code where functions pass badly named functions around as parameters and use 10 function compositions in a sequence.

You did the right thing. OOP was invented by people who were worried about their job security, to obstruct others from understanding their code.