In this post, I want to talk about what I’ve been thinking about ove
r the roughly two and a half years I’ve spent as a frontend chapter l
ead at Toss.
You got me! As a frontend engineer, the irony of those line breaks is not lost on me. It seems my editor had its own 'technical debt' during the export.
It isn't good enough. There's far too much ambiguity and imprecision inherent in the language. Just look at how often it is that native English speakers misunderstand each other.
To make English (or any human language) suitable for use as a programming language means you need to very tightly constrain the language -- which would make it less suitable for human communications.
It is ICE (not the police) that is harassing people, and why should anyone need to carry proof of citizenship?
Further, even if you have proof of citizenship, what makes you think you'll be asked for it, rather than just being shoved into an SUV? There have been numerous citizens that were detained:
And being detained may be for the fortunate case: many US citizens have been deported. Without trial. With an opportunity to show evidence that they are in fact citizens.
This is why protecting due process for non-citizens, illegal or otherwise, is important: if there is no due process, then the government can simply claim you are not one, and ship you off to who knows where.
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