I'm going to dive into this in a bit, seems absolutely amazing. I love living in this age!

I was offered a full time position in Germany as a web developer, $50,000 a year as soon as I finished high school. I was offered a summer internship at Venmo( a PayPal company ) as an iOS developer. And most recently I was offered a summer internship at BuzzFeed as an iOS developer.

Seriously? Only one of those is a job offer, two of them are internships (and one at Buzzfeed, the place that just missed it's revenues by $80 million? Probably dodge a bullet there), and the monetary offer, while good for someone right out of high school, is not really all that great for NYC. Not trying to down on the kid, but I get more and better job offers than that.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. - Socrates

Think like that in any field and you'll go far, because you'll always be striving to be better.

6) Versioning is for fools. Just keep a copy on your local drive and you'll be fine.

Excellent synopsis. Every time I think about starting an angular project I get about two seconds in and realize jquery/plain ol' js is so much better and extendable

No, you're wrong. See, they can't be racist or sexist or *phobic because of reasons and feeling. You, however, if you're a normal white person just living their life, you're the problem!

In all seriousness, I feel the same way. I could care less about race, gender, trans, whatever, but now that they're attacking me for doing nothing wrong (in fact, supporting my friends who are gay, trans, etc without ever blinking an eye because, hey, it's their life and they're my friends, more power to them), I'm finding myself definitely ready to go on the offensive.

That's what this whole issue is about though. In one of the more famous cases, an Opal developer made a comment on Twitter about trans people having to accept reality. That got this guy Cory (Coraline) up in arms and started this thread which is pretty much just over-the-top shit stirring to get their Code of Conduct (Or CoC, the thing he's trying to escape from) adopted everywhere so it seems more important than it is. The CoC goes into great detail about how you can no longer look at coding as a meritocracy (that being, the best code is what gets merged) and rather you have to consider the person who wrote it; no longer an anonymous handle but now a person with gender, skin color, all of the things that don't matter when coding, but now have been injected by the very people saying we shouldn't let those things cloud our judgement.

The bottom line is that most of these people probably aren't very good coders and so when they get their pull requests denied, instead of facing up to the fact that they have to get better, they cry discrimination and marginalization based on the things they hate bout themselves. Now that they're getting their way (because they are a very easy group to milk for money so companies are jumping on that), most of the good programmers (and people like me that are just OK at it) are moving their code away to other places and will not participate in actually fixing stuff in broken projects while they can update README files or change variable names and claim victory.

Another thing worth mentioning, too, is that if this is a function or a variable, just changing the name in one spot is usually not good enough. If it's a breaking change, now you have to search your entire code base and make sure that there are no references that also need to be updated, then test that those changes work, and on and on. Very time consuming for what amounts to a man-child who can't handle words

Looks like it's time to fork php

You're thinking of a Technical Writer. Someone who has the necessary understanding of the technology and can translate it into (somewhat) usable english for everyone else.