I can just imagine this will spawn a new contrived, perverted sex act that's similar to the glass-bottomed boat.

No, you just have to try...and of course practice if you want to get any good at it.

That's one aspect, but probably not the most important, given that Lua already has GC without the CLR.

But it's vegan if you use margarine!

I would like to officially apologize for offending the android and cyborg populations, by bringing too much attention to the food desires of the meatbag population.

> I used 140lbs of weight and let it sit for 4 hours

O.o

> The workflow I ended up with was to write a function without any type annotations. Ignore all the red lines of the IDE’s confusion. Compile the code. In the output look for a warning about (Long => Int) return value being ignored in a function returning Unit. Copy (Long => Int) into my code as the return type annotation of my function. Compile again.

That sounds like the most stupid way you could do things.

I have been in interview debriefs where people were concerned about a candidate not advancing enough in a previous position, but I can't imagine one failed startup being detrimental, at least where I currently work if you get interviewed by those same exact people. :) The important thing is what you can talk about from the startup.

Heh, I hear that off and on and I'm curious where that comes from. Is it just something that people repeat because it sounds good, or is there solid evidence for it?

No one wants to hire someone that can take their job in 6 months. People don't like hiring threats to themselves.

Why not learn Node.js? You learned almost everything else Javascript. There's got to be some decent ORM for it. How much time do you have to do this?