NoScript works fine on HN. Works fine on most of the Web, really; you'd be surprised. To dig a little into your mindset, it sounds like you enjoy being needed

NoScript works fine on HN. Works fine on most of the Web, really; you'd be surprised. To dig a little into your mindset, it sounds like you enjoy being needed and having an important part to play. But you've limited yourself by tying yourself to JS and not embracing a wider understanding of computer science. JS is a portion of my salaried work as well. But that doesn't make it good. Plenty of salaried work is bad. It's up to us as ethical computer scientists to decide to avoid bad work, including deciding to avoid JS. At the end of the day, JS still doesn't even have integers. It's just as harmful to you as BASIC was to Dijkstra's students, and the damage done is so extensive that you're unable to notice how much you've been hurt. The only saving grace is that the ECMAScript steering committee has been infiltrated by capability-security folk and is slowly becoming a capability-aware language. You can't stop this, and you will be converted.