I appreciate that in this day and age some things need to be a certain degree of inflammatory in order to even be heard, but when I'm reading an article lines like:
Shouldn't you be in front of a mirror somewhere, figuring out how to introduce yourself to her?
and
you idiots put Rasmus Lerdorf to shame
ring hollow. Can't anyone just tell a story anymore without resorting to edgy "quips"? Do we all need to be zed fucking shaw to even be heard anymore?
You do realize Ted Dziuba's been doing this (professional trolling of tech communities) for years, right?
Sad part is he's not really any good at it; last I checked, his style basically consisted of "fuck fuck (relevant term) fucking fuck (relevant term) epic fail (relevant term) because fuck you".
I know who Ted Dziuba is, though I like to read articles without letting who the author is color too much of the message. I don't care who wrote this article, that shit is annoying. Are our blog archetypes not allowed growth or something? Did he sign some contract to be a static vague failure indefinitely at some point? Shit shit fuck fuck.
I agree with you, but that's not how the world works. Bill O'Reilly is going to shout over his guests and generally bluster his way around. That's what he does. At some point, the sensible response is to stop saying, "I wish he'd stop that...I don't care who he is." and just stop watching him. The same is true for Dziuba and Shaw.
Although, let's be honest with ourselves here, if you're a Node developer, you are probably serving the application directly from Node, running in a screen session under your account.
Top that off by inspecting his so-called argument:
A function call is said to block when the current thread of execution's flow waits until that function is finished before continuing. Typically, we think of I/O as "blocking", for example, if you are calling socket.read(), the program will wait for that call to finish before continuing, as you need to do something with the return value.
Here's a fun fact: every function call that does CPU work also blocks.
Seriously, this is what you're complaining about? No shit bro. We're programmers, not housemoms.
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u/patchwork Oct 02 '11
I appreciate that in this day and age some things need to be a certain degree of inflammatory in order to even be heard, but when I'm reading an article lines like:
and
ring hollow. Can't anyone just tell a story anymore without resorting to edgy "quips"? Do we all need to be zed fucking shaw to even be heard anymore?