mzan's comments

On: CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown (201...

[mzan]

IMO, with underscores it is not immediate recognizing the elements of an expression like

    some_var.some_fun(some_param, another_param)

Instead with CamelCase, they are immediately visible:

   someVar.someFun(someParam, anotherParam)

But my preferred syntax is Lisp:

   (some-fun some-var some-param another-param)

   (when this-looks-appealing
      (setf you-like-lisp-syntax true)
      (vote-poll 'camel-case-formatting))

IMO, "this-looks-appealing" is more readable than "thisLooskAppealing", but "-" is more space friendly respect "_".

[thfuran → mzan]

That works for lisp but it's awkward for languages with infix subtraction.

[mzan → thfuran]

yes, sure. Also

  some-var.some-fun(some-param, another-param)

the "-" hides the ".", but it should be the contrary, because "." is a stronger separator.

On: The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird

[mzan]

"Dealers of Lightning" by Michael Hiltzik is an interesting book about the story of Xerox Parc.

About Steve Jobs and his programmers visit: <<They asked all the right questions and understood all the answers. It was clear to me that they understood what we had a lot better than Xerox [corporation] did.>>

On: Stereotypes about girls dissuade many from careers...

[mzan]

If you view "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox" on YouTube, you will find interesting answers. https://youtu.be/tiJVJ5QRRUE

In a scientific experiment, from the age of nine months, boys choose masculine toys, while girls choose femmine toys. Boys are more attract from inanimate systems, while girls from social interactions.

Obviously culture has an effect, every person is unique, etc., etc. So there cannot be limitation on what a person want and can do. It is only unrealistic pretending that 50% of boys and 50% of girls will have the same interests in work and life, because they are different.

On: Toxic positivity does more harm than good

[mzan]

During reading the article, it was impossible not thinking to this famous Italian pop single:

https://youtu.be/jx8GhXm-HcA

" I'm out of the tunnel of amusement [...] we live on memories, gentleman, and games sincere embraces, kisses and fires of all those moments, sad and amusing and not on moments that were sadly amusing "