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> There's a divide between people who enjoy the physical experience of the work and people who enjoy the mental experience of the work. If the thinking bit is your favorite part, A…

I happen to be a shareholder in EA as part of a diversified portfolio. Not that my vote matters but I'll definitely be taking PE money. +20% in one day is nothing to sneeze at. Fro…

Speaking as a C# developer, who had in the past wanted to learn F#, but never got very far. What discourages me every time: - C#'s good enough. Nothing's stopping you from writing …

C# 1.0 did not have generics, period. So the standard dictionary (Hashtable†) type took keys and values typed as "System.Object". As seen in the linked documentation this class sti…

> On the other hand I cannot not help thinking that this is similar to the arguments brought forward when the internet was new. How could correctness and plausibility be establishe…

Interesting examples from that wicked language, thank you! (Studied French before but unfortunately lost interest.) You're right about the context and grammar being usually suffici…

Just wanted to add some color here. The various written forms for native words (和語) like 聞く and 聴く aren't really coming from different words, they were most very likely the same wo…

I'm sure what I'm going to write are not new insights but, to add to your point, generally we expect to consume information much quicker through reading than through hearing. When …