Learned Fortran on an old TI-99; forgot Fortran; learned to draw, paint, sculpt, and play violin; learned how to merge code and art, turned it into my UX/Front-end dev Frankenthing.
Heck, that's why I was booted off Stack Overflow on three separate occasions. I had the audacity to ask a question that hadn't been asked before (I had search for days before asking) and not been clear enough that I had meant 'in vanilla Javascript' when I'd said that I did not want to rely on any frameworks, libraries, or other dependencies.
I was called a troll, an idiot, and a jerk for not reading the rules for posting questions, even though I'd mentioned that I'd read the rules and conducted a multi-day search for the answer and found nothing. I was told that if I had read the rules, then I would have known to merge my question with the question they linked, which covered PHP. I was then told that there was an unofficial rule stating that new people can't ask question, merge questions, or answer questions. I was told that I violated all the rules by even thinking of posting anything in the first place. Then the interface stopped working for me all together. I opened my email to report my issues, but upon opening my email, saw that I'd already received email from SO telling me that I was banned from SO use for the next year.
I've tried 3 times and all 3 times ended in a ban. How do people even use SO if noone is allowed to use it at all until they've established a long history of using it?
The latest ban was for having the audacity to agree that HTML and CSS are not programming languages, but disagreeing over whether they should be considered code at all. Apparently, a lot of programmers have been taught that markup, markdown, styling, and other non-programming coding languages are actually human-spoken content and not code at all.
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Heck, that's why I was booted off Stack Overflow on three separate occasions. I had the audacity to ask a question that hadn't been asked before (I had search for days before asking) and not been clear enough that I had meant 'in vanilla Javascript' when I'd said that I did not want to rely on any frameworks, libraries, or other dependencies.
I was called a troll, an idiot, and a jerk for not reading the rules for posting questions, even though I'd mentioned that I'd read the rules and conducted a multi-day search for the answer and found nothing. I was told that if I had read the rules, then I would have known to merge my question with the question they linked, which covered PHP. I was then told that there was an unofficial rule stating that new people can't ask question, merge questions, or answer questions. I was told that I violated all the rules by even thinking of posting anything in the first place. Then the interface stopped working for me all together. I opened my email to report my issues, but upon opening my email, saw that I'd already received email from SO telling me that I was banned from SO use for the next year.
I've tried 3 times and all 3 times ended in a ban. How do people even use SO if noone is allowed to use it at all until they've established a long history of using it?
The latest ban was for having the audacity to agree that HTML and CSS are not programming languages, but disagreeing over whether they should be considered code at all. Apparently, a lot of programmers have been taught that markup, markdown, styling, and other non-programming coding languages are actually human-spoken content and not code at all.