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"Don't use JS for web development? (I need to pay my bills)" This is not what I meant, but I will say that you don't need to pay your bills by making the web a
by pmoriarty 6y ago
"Don't use JS for web development? (I need to pay my bills)"
This is not what I meant, but I will say that you don't need to pay your bills by making the web any more of a spyware and adware infested sewer than it already is.
You as a developer and a human being have a choice of what to do with your life and your career.
No one is forced to be a JS developer, and it's ridiculous to pretend you are.
- wcarron 6y agoI have to agree with GP. You were being obtuse and intentionally so. Now, you're tangentially ranting about agency and free will. Speak plainly and without airs.
- jstanley 6y agoThis is a total non-sequitur. Just because you write javascript doesn't mean you're writing spyware or adware.
- pmoriarty 6y agoIt doesn't mean that you in particular are. But the web is spyware and adware infested. That's just a fact. And that stuff doesn't write itself. There are huge number of spyware and adware authors out there. It's very likely that quite a few of them are HN readers, and a pretty good chance that they're this article itself (as it concerns their business). Do I have any reason to believe that you in particular are one of them? No. Can I address such people when I reply to someone in a thread on browser fingerprinting who claims they need to write JavaScript to pay their bills? Yes.
- ogre_codes 6y agoYou have remarkably taken a comment which makes little sense and made it make less sense with each successive post. Eventually, there will be zero meaning to it entirely. Wait... I think we're there already.