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Distribute the jail time among the shareholders. That will get them to incentivize legality over profits REAL quick

With current leadership, I think we're closer to Germany in this analogy.

With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? M…

If the only thing on the planet you care about is efficiency, sure. How about the human lives impacted by all of it?

And thus poor people became unable to access the internet

If this is the goal, wouldn't it be better to teach a form of shorthand rather than cursive?

I'm not sure how rolling back 6 months of updates could ever be possible unless you never ship new features.

Worrying about a potentially deadly illness that you can do little about, vs worrying about losing your source of income and having to.. look for another job. I'm definitely more w…

Is this cashier giving the money to their manager? No, they're pocketing it. Just because they were on the clock doesn't make it the responsibility of the company.

If you use tabs, you can customize how it looks. ;)

The conclusion for this article doesn't follow from the argument. > California's crumbling roads and bridges sometimes resemble those of the old rural South. The state's public sch…

Yes, but then the program would never terminate, because that's what happens at the end of main. If main returns, it's saying that the rest of the code in main has executed.

They're actually not required in Go.

It's been like this since at least Opera 10; don't count on them doing anything about it.

Go has gdb support, so any program that uses it as a backend (like ddd) can debug Go code. http://golang.org/doc/gdb Not as easy to use as a lot of debuggers, but it's widely known…

So you want to copy the data every time there's an if? Some other part of the program could have a pointer to it otherwise.

Because Go is concurrent and has mutable types, race conditions could cause the assumptions gleaned from the booleans to be false in the very next statement. Boolean blindness is a…

The benefit is not having to code it. The most bug-free components are the ones that aren't there. Also, it's only v1. I don't think anybody's said that they're opposed to putting …

You think Rob Pike and Ken Thompson made what you consider a mistake out of ignorance? Just because you don't like it doesn't make it a mistake.

Would be nice if it converted lists into their or equivalents.