The mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.

I find your slur offensive; I am more of a great ape.

Not surprisingly, Vance said words exactly to that effect during the vice-presidential debate. No one can say that they did not see this coming.

Huh. What of Bean’s are you cooking?

Choosing not to give money to someone you do not know is not quite the same thing as murdering them.

No, XML is already a punishment.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Just like they say, you can modify the code and remove for free if you really want, they’re not forbidding you from doing so or anything

True, but I think you are discounting the risk that the actual god Anubis will take displeasure at such an act, potentially dooming one’s real life soul.

You do not come across as clever as you think that you are when your central point is that you personally are not capable of understanding code written in a different programming language.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

The first law has always pissed me off: why are you wasting that elderly scientist’s time when you already know in advance what answer you want to hear and will only accept that response as being true?

In my work environment (in the US), people have roughly this much paternity leave, and it is taken for granted that they will take it because this is viewed as important even if their absence during this time inconveniences the rest of us. They often split it up, though, instead of taking it in a single contiguous chunk.

Wow, it is impressive the lengths people are willing to go to vandalize Musk’s property as a form of political protest!

Ah, but you see, JavaScript is not so straightforward. It tries to help you by automatically inserting missing semicolons, but the approach that it uses is that it will insert them in the first place where doing so would make the code parse. This, unfortunately, means that semicolons are often inserted in places where you were not expecting them, so the advice is to always include them manually yourself so that you are never unpleasantly surprised.

Nice try, but this post is actually now talking about JavaScript, which means that the close parentheses areautomatically inserted.

I am sympathetic with the sentiment so I am hardly going to discourage anyone from doing this, but it is not clear who could still be convinced at this point.

Fixed that for you!

Yeah, I had been willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt that this was all part of a big joke, until I saw that the rest of their blog postings are also just like this one.

My humanity.

More like a scratch you just can’t itch.