Welcome to Mark's Garden

How this works...

• programmer 1: Hey, it turns out you don't need semicolons in JavaScript, and my previous reasons for putting them there are not actually true. Neat.
• programmer 2: Yeah, but it'll break.
• p1: But... that's just it, it *doesn't* break. It's actually ok for me to do this.
• p2: No it isn't.
• p1: Why not?
• p2: Browser bugs.
• p1: Which browsers?
• p2: All of them.
• p1: Well, it works fine on all the engines I've tested---
• p2: IE.
• p1: Works fine there, too. Even in IE 5.
• p2: Compression. Compressors can't handle it. Need the semicolons. All of them.
• p1: All the compressors in use today handle it fine. In fact, the code compresses a little *better* in most of them.
• p2: Well, whatever, that's not how it's done.
• p1: Ok, well, there are other reasons to do things besides a convention. I mean, you're wearing an unconventional hat, and that's cool.
• p2: So, now you have a problem with my coding style AND my hat?? FUCK YOU.
• p1: You can code however you want, and I love your hat, I was ju---
• p2: No. NO. Fuck you. Seriously. You crossed a line, dude. Too far.
• p1: [puzzled] I don't get why this an issue, I mean, if you see the spec, it says---
• p2: You just can't let this go, can you? Why don't you lighten up?
• p1: Let what go, exactly? And I don't really think that I'm the one who needs to lighten anything.
• p2: Oh, so now you come in with the personal attacks. I get it. We're all not smart enough to understand your precious spec, so you have to attack people? HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, SIR? AT LONG LAST, HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?
• p1: I think maybe hacker news isn't for me...