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> Code reviews have same power to rectify both: naming and comment issues.

Great point.. except for when you're dealing with a lead and/or reviewer that refuses to approve comments because "we write self-documenting code" yikes


> The laws and regulations they pass are directly contributing to homelessness and lack of housing.

v misleading esp w/ language such as 'likely' and 'most socialist' w/ zero sources.


> Scientists have spend enormous amount of time and effort studying animal communication and behavior and it mostly contradicts what you believe.

Source? Plus how does the amount of time spent studying something matter? What if they're studying the wrong things or making faulty assumptions? Scientist spent an enormous amount of time studying humorism and blood-letting even as recent as 150 years ago..


> working on a project that does pretty much the same kind of thing they're doing

Radon outlined why this isn't true. [1]

> basically spreading some of that knowledge you gave them and making it packaged and accessible not only to future contributors of their project, but to all competitors and genuine copycats out there.

It appears as if you're advocating that Radon should've treated the open-source code as if it was closed? [1]

> This is incredibly unprofessional

In what world is it unprofessional to work on a personal side project that has ZERO commercial interests and is using 100% public open-source code? This is actually one of the most professional online disagreements I've ever seen..

> Show some respect to your ex-boss and collegues who are working hard for several years

hUHH ???

[1] https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/evidence


Appalling and completely unacceptable behavior from a company so committed to being a conduit for open-source innovation.

Slightly unrelated: I used to shamelessly promote repl.it a couple years ago, but no longer do because their app has become so bloated and hard to use that it's discouraging to beginners -- recently I tried to remotely help a non-technical friend w/ an assignment and we must've spent ~20 minutes dealing with account creation, sending the correct invite link, and making sure we could both see our changes; it felt like a terrible waste of time especially as I kept reminding them "I promise it's worth it this app rocks!"

The app used to actually be awesome back when you could spin up an env in seconds, send the link to a friend, and immediately start collaborating.. Hopefully this will be the nail in the coffin, or at least lead to a mass migration from the platform.. :/


I only want something with slightly less friction than a jupyter notebook but better for controlled editing that an ipython shell. Something that doesnt make any files on my filesystem or anything else that I have to clean up later. That's why I'm looking for an online repl!

Okay, I can live with having to be logged in because it keeps me logged in for a long time, but do I really need to figure out what I want to call this "project" which is two functions and a print that I never want the world to see?

For a few glorious years, repl.it was exactly what I wanted when it came to writing derpy little one-off functions.


I'm building Starboard, https://starboard.gg, maybe that fits your needs? It runs in the browser itself and is open source.


Oooh this is very neat! I love the confetti button part of the demo. I will try to remember this next time I reach for an online repl.


nit: please refrain from any ad hominem comments and instead comment on the merits of the content itself


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