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> This is pretty off-putting, especially given a few glaring factual errors in your own post. Ironic, given you started with none. I standby the response, as appropriate commentary…

> This article compares "teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers" to "lawyers and bankers", claiming that the latter make much more money than the former. > In general, that's n…

> You're complaining that you can't tell what this HN submission is about from the top-voted comment alone Nope. johnonolan's post is top and it explains about as much as the site.…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation ? Thorium/breeder reactors don't work for large booms, but would be fine for small booms and dirty bombs.

That's missing a tangential point, but not THE ostensible point (topical)?

So it was an accurate depiction of what they would be working on? It seems like this is akin to the goal.

No. It's alive and particularly pragmatic in dynamic languages. The type of sigil, @ or $ or I or Array(space) are all equal to the interpreter. The difference is how offended you …

I prefer a convention of semantically relevant variable names prefixed/suffixed by a letter indicating type.

> He was working at an Arizona bank, where he was a “programmer,” not a “software developer.” That's an example of nightmarish bureaucracy getting in the way of hiring. Titles don'…

> Code Review should be about catching mistakes. Overly-complicated code is a mistake. Maintainability matters almost as much as a passing unit test. You want your code reviews to …

> The fourth amendment absolutely applies to hotel rooms. Hotel Security aren't the federal government. The 4th amendment? C'mon.

Seattle and almost anywhere in Southern California are also fantastic areas.

> The porn industry is violently against even basic things like condom use THAT is a matter of profitability, whatever else you may think. SMH I have to wonder what's wrong with pe…

> reinforce an invalid argument. It's not about some logical argument. That's for a judge to decide.

> The set of integers do not form a field The set of integers represented by the integer types of pony can be treated as a field, since they have discrete ranges.

> programmers write programs to solve real problems, and real problems define 1/0=undefined Saying that is easy and common. Can you come up with a contrived example?

The topic is a computer language. I'm referring to utility.

I think this is calling for a Pony programmer working with floating point to know how their own basic operators function. Wrapping division in a function that checks for zero will …

> You’re doing something different than real number arithmetic Computer languages execute on rules that are not utilizing real number arithmetic. I didn't want to mention it, but t…

1/0 = undef (cast to 0) 1 != 0*0 I don't see the inconsistency. Abstract math vs practical application.

> the many pieces of code that assume that (x / y) * y equals x The same issue if division by zero throws an exception. This is simply a more practical approach that dispenses with…

Classic postmodernist eventuality. Everyone is equal, but if you take issue in highlighting that a practice might offend by implying that there is a difference, you become the enem…

I disagree. The larger context and underlying causes are not possible without the groundwork. The claims that it isn't being done reads like you just want the answers faster, while…