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"Having never lived in a truly big city I don't really understand why would anyone walk to anywhere, as such more density necessarily means more traffic".. Ok I filtered a bit with…

We had a similar service 20-30 years ago operating mostly out of Quebec and Ontario (Canada). Sadly regulators did not see it very kindly ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/province-s…

with you on that one... a better comparison would be to see how bitcoin stacks up against the power dedicated to porn... or spam

he should make a revised edition where they no longer consult the Sun God but rather the All Seeing Oracle...

Regardless of how long it REST or how much you pump it full of SOAP, a spaghetti mess will still be a giant bowl of indigestible pasta.

for many companies the fitness criterion is locked in proportionality to how much money it costs... for them LGPL is to be avoided at all costs.

I lock my keyboard away when I leave... I'll sleep better knowing nobody made it off with my 200$ mechanical clacker. As a side bonus I don't get mystery things locked when I arriv…

If you annotate your types in python with the appropriate type hinting comments I find I get quite satisfactory code completion and error detection from my IDE (pycharm). Perhaps n…

That reading ".NET programming for dummies" to the last page makes him/her an expert programmer

Given the choice between trial and error engineering and science backed engineering I much prefer the latter. That does not mean doing engineering without the science is impossible…

A function should be X Lines long... but no longer where X is any number of lines necessary for implementing the ONE thing that function should be doing Any attempt to replace X wi…

"Socialism is an illusion" ... " please do not try to put one system above other" I guess then it's ok to put one below...

> Can you make a build in one step? vs > Are all builds handled automatically by a Continuous Integration server? Are two very different indicators. And both are, least in my mind,…

Disposable goods are not cheap, they are in fact very expensive. They are perceived as cheap because a very large portion of the true cost is hidden, externalized. Creators have no…

What's worrying is not so much that the petition to be considered as Mass surveillance... but that the petition coupled with data obtained through mass surveillance. Who knows what…

that's just it, ask 100 people what "advancement" and "Moving Humanity forward" and you'd likely get 100 different definitions. Same goes for hapiness.

F# would probably be a better comparison peer to Scala than C# would IMHO

Did they rather mean that 4% of leadership roles are help by women ?

There is one reason that can make it harder for "experts" to teach a subject that others may teach better. Best I can explain this is from a personnal story. I used to do rollerbla…