The Boy Who Loved

[Jarrell Campbell]

Ive always loved the line of scripture, "Be still, and know." It beckons us to quiet and slow ourselves, making space for the soul to find comfort and connection. When I think about those moments in my life when I'm best able do just that, it's almost always when I can grab a minute to sip warmth from a favorite mug. There's something about the ritual that tells my whole body to just take a minute, breathe... and know.

Since my dignity or worth is disconnected from any particular feature of myself as an individual, however, my friend can recognise and affirm that worth without acknowledging or engaging my particular needs, specific values and so on. If Setiya is calling it right, then that friend can assuage my loneliness without engaging my individuality.

In addition to developing new needs, I understood myself as having changed in other fundamental respects. While I knew my friends loved me and affirmed my unconditional value, I did not feel upon my return home that they were able to see and affirm my individuality. I was radically changed; in fact, I felt in certain respects totally unrecognisable even to those who knew me best. After Italy, I inhabited a different, more nuanced perspective on the world; beauty, creativity and intellectual growth had become core values of mine; I had become a serious lover of poetry; I understood myself as a burgeoning philosopher. At the time, my closest friends were not able to see and affirm these parts of me, parts of me with which even relative strangers in my college courses were acquainted (though, of course, those acquaintances neither knew me nor were equipped to meet other of my needs which my friends had long met). When I returned home, I no longer felt truly seen by my friends.

Another way to put it is that our social needs go far beyond the impersonal recognition of our unconditional worth as human beings. These needs can be as widespread as a need for reciprocal emotional attachment or as restricted as a need for a certain level of intellectual engagement or creative exchange. But even when the need in question is a restricted or uncommon one, if it is a deep need that requires another person to meet yet goes unmet, we will feel lonely. The fact that we suffer loneliness even when these quite specific needs are unmet shows that understanding and treating this feeling requires attending not just to whether my worth is affirmed, but to whether I am recognised and affirmed in my particularity and whether my particular, even idiosyncratic social needs are met by those around me.

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In 2022, we added a drill-down to specifically show popularity amongst those learning to code. Because Stack Overflow is a learning resource, I would expect that popularity amongst those specifically learning would be a good indicator of current and future programming language popularity.

How else might we set up expectations for trends amongst the many programming languages being asked about on Stack Overflow? I found two good sources that are worthy proxies for popularity: Google and GitHub.

GitHub publishes statistics on public repositories for anyone to use as a handy public dataset within Google BigQuery, and although we lose the information from private repositories, we can assume the public accounts speak more directly to popularity as they are tied to learning initiatives, portfolios, and open-source collaboration, which are mostly self-directed rather than mandated by existing business rules. From this dataset, we will focus on the annual trend in public repo pull requests by language.

Looking at the basic relationship between Most Loved percent and annual rank in questions asked, we see a slight relationship over the years, but not a strong one. The simple regression here shows 2022 has the strongest correlation in the last three years and that only 7% of the variation in ranking for 2022 questions asked can be explained by 2022 Dev Survey results for most loved programming languages.

This graph shows that being loved (via the Developer Survey) is not related to generating more questions on Stack Overflow. And this makes sense: posting questions most likely speaks to friction with coding, a friction that may lead to loving a programming language less.

When we add in our additional proxy variables for language popularity, usage percentage among those learning to code in the 2022 Developer Survey, the trend in PYPL from 2021 to 2022, and the trend in Github pull requests from 2021 to 2022, we get better regression results. Using just Learning to Code Popularity gets us a better regression that explains 67% of the variation in ranking for 2022 questions. A logical conclusion here is that Stack Overflow questions are more susceptible to the preferences of those using the site as a learning tool rather than those of more advanced developers.

Compared to our learning to code popularity metric, Python, JavaScript, and Java are inline with expectations being at the top of both lists. According to the same metric, we would expect more questions about SQL and PHP. This shows that there is more to the trend than just measurable popularity. The factors that lead up to searching for tutorial on Google or GitHub pull requests from public repositories, for example, could be influenced by content creation in the academic and online learning spaces, which in turn could be influenced by nuances in tech evolution (e.g. Python-3.x as a short-lived top-ranked tag before it became the standard version). The next Developer Survey will be the canary in the coalmine illuminating any changes in expectations for the types of questions being asked on Stack Overflow.

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I looked up to him right away. He was two years ahead of me in school, really tall, and proved to be a genius with computers. (Later, he also had a very cool beard, which I could never pull off.) We started hanging out together, especially once the first computer arrived at our school. We spent just about all our free time messing around with any computer we could get our hands on.

Paul foresaw that computers would change the world. Even in high school, before any of us knew what a personal computer was, he was predicting that computer chips would get super-powerful and would eventually give rise to a whole new industry. That insight of his was the cornerstone of everything we did together.

Sports was another passion that Paul loved to share with his friends. In later years he would take me to see his beloved Portland Trail Blazers and patiently helped me understand everything that was happening on the court.

But in the daily living of our lives, happiness can sometimes be elusive and hard to find. The trials, sorrows and set-backs, and the lonely challenges of mortality visit each of us, and, for many, they seem to be an all too frequent companion. Adversity is necessary to our eternal progress. However, it is important to know that God has also given us ways to find joy and happiness in our daily lives.

To be loved is a powerful balm capable of both lifting and refreshing, and of relieving the pain and unhappiness that afflicts us. To give love to others brings about lasting happiness and joy in our own lives. When we learn to apply this principle, we unlock the secret of an abundant and happy life.

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First, would it even be possible for someone in Heaven to know what's happening on earth, and be able to hear us say anything? Many assume the answer is no. But in Matthew 17, Moses and Elijah clearly already knew the events going on when they appeared with Jesus on the mount of transfiguration. In Luke 15 Jesus speaks of rejoicing in the presence of the angels, not BY the angels but in their presence, whenever a sinner repents, suggesting God's people in heaven rejoice at God's work in lives on earth. To rejoice at it, they obviously must be aware of it. And Revelation 6:9-11 shows martyrs in Heaven who are clearly aware that God hasn't yet brought judgment on those who persecuted them, and are wondering why. So they know some of what's happening on earth.

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