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Nobody speak - DJ Shadow Music video is perfect - https://youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY

In the 2009 Oscar-snubbed masterpiece Monsters vs Aliens, the alien mothership is defeated by a half-man, half-cockroach scientist doing DDR.

https://youtu.be/s7HirhI6Wjc

Ah yes, "divests" when the stock is at an all-time high price point. I'm sure that hurt them so much.

I literally didn't even realize Giles was an asshole in Ted Lasso

And then, because you were never in a classroom and never took a class on security, you probably have no idea what a buffer overflow attack is or how to use tools like valgrind to check for them.

Then you put your C code on the internet and get your server pwned inside of an hour.

Slightly hyperbolic? Yes definitely. But there is a reason we don't teach C to beginners anymore. Generally you want them to understand the mindset of coding before throwing them in the deep end. And I would bet nothing has caused more people to quit programming then Segmentation fault: core dumped

Pick a popular online service with a public API and write some scripts that integrate with them. Learn by doing.

Everything in moderation, including moderation

In my (non-expert) opinion, there are a few reasons

1. NPM is more popular than those other services by an order of magnitude, especially among new developer and startups.
2. NPM allows for code to be executed while you install the package which is different from maven or nuget and allows for easy exploitation paths

This works until you scale the team beyond 1 person and someone else needs to decipher the 30 line awk | sed | xargs monstrosity you created. Give me a real programming language any day.

Mods of communities can already see votes in communities they moderate. Admins of instances can already see votes on all content.

Unknown variables

Incorrect. The app was baked into the Pixel firmware from Google, not a manufacturer specific OEM.