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In the confession of The Golden State Killer, he said that he would feel a force enter his being and do the raping and murdering. He also said that when he got older he was strong …

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I'm not at all against a new model providing a more solid foundation for a new OS, but it's not going to be garbage collected, so the most popular of the newer languages make the p…

That's a fair point that I hadn't considered. I was developing C+objects as C++ was first being released in the mid-90s, and then using Borland's C++ compiler in the early 2000s, b…

Because programmers are creating the abstractions, not the programming language. And there is no OS I'm aware of that will threaten Unix's dominance any time soon. I'm not against …

Indeed. And congrats on your daughter's craftiness and how it intersects with math. Our daughter is not so much into the pure math side but loves to do amigurumi, which is really a…

> That being said, I would not want this sentiment formalized in code guidelines :) Surely. I'm all for code formatting standards as long as they're MY code formatting standards :-…

> Because your ideas are not deep nor are they connected to anything. I didn't realize you were are the authority. Or is it that you don't realize that you're not the authority? I …

> C lacks mechanisms to do this apart from using its incredibly brittle macro facility. We programmers are the ultimate abstraction mechanism, and refining our techniques in patter…

All his ideas are fantastic, and are obviously the result of long experience in a seasoned and highly successful project. He is sharing techniques that simply work for large, compl…

Simplicity is essential to achieving managable complexity over time.

The reality is that we spend FAR more time reading code than writing it. That is why readability is far more important than clever, line saving constructs. The key to further minim…

> Your position offers no predictions, offers no implications, and offers no way to be measured in any way. That's fair, but I didn't say that I could offer any of that. All I offe…

I second that motion, good Sir!

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> within 10 years > within 25 years That is "many years" in my view. > so untrue So you're saying his ideas were immediately accepted? I guess that's why he was still working at th…

> a charlatan is a person who invents what they insist is a truth and then labels all who do not believe as fools. I completely agree, but the truth is that I am not a charlatan, n…

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It took many years before Einstein's ToR was confirmed by pictures of light bending around our sun during an eclipse. Paul Dirac predicted antiparticles purely by mathematical intu…

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