“Kirk to Enterprise…”

Please stop, I can only upvote once per post!

Chief O’Brien memes get automatic upvotes from me.

(Scotty too…)

I think it does a good job of showing the Star Trek approach to science fiction.

You have a human on the planet interacting with an unusual alien. There is some action, but the primary problem of the episode is not solved by violence. The audience is taken along with Picard in the process of figuring out communication with the alien captain.

Its main weakness is that you don’t get much ship-based stuff in this particular episode. There is a little, but…

Darmok

This right here

You know all those Cyberpunk books and movies?

Apparently we thought those were a suggestion instead of a warning…

I mean, that’s what the marketing folks at the hyperscalers would have us believe…

Isn’t test driven development also error driven development though?

You’re my hero, kind internet stranger! 🖖

Like my hero, the Chief… I hate temporal mechanics…

How is there no picture in this thread of Scotty actually wearing a kilt???

“The bath must be drawn here”

Ok, that one got me!

Yep. I’ve also used a paper clip, straightened out with a very small bend at the end.

I’ve also used chewing gum, though you have to wait it for it to harden a little. Duct tape might work too.

You only have to get it to move out a tiny amount. Then you can get a pair of needle nose pliers on it and pull it out.

That particular key looks challenging though.

Amen

As someone else who was a kid in the 80s, I promise you that almost no movie that you or I saw in that entire decade was a kids movie.

We must do these things so that the deep lore does not become legend and is, in time, forgotten…

Thank you!

Almost everything the author complains about has nothing to do with JS. The author is complaining about corporate, SaaS, ad-driven web design. It just so happens that web browsers run JavaScript.

In an alternate universe, where web browsers were designed to use Python, all of these same problems would exist.

But no, it’s fun to bag on JS because it has some quirks (as if no other languages do…), so people will use the word in the title of their article as nerd clickbait. Honestly, it gets a little old after a while.

Personally, I think JS and TS are great. JS isn’t perfect, but I’ve written in 5 programming languages professionally, at this point, and I haven’t used one that is.

I write a lot of back end services and web servers in Node.js (and Express) and it’s a great experience.

So… yeah, the modern web kind of sucks. But it’s not really the fault of JS as a language.

I believe the reason a function or method in an object does not need the “function” keyword has to do with the fact that JS is built on the prototype model and the fact that functions are first class in JS.

As the saying goes, “Everything is an object in JavaScript…” (which is not strictly true).

How there is not a reference to TMP-era Scotty, and his sweet ‘stache, I do not understand…