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I always enjoy seeing small scandanavian tactics (Norway, Sweden, Finland) tactics against German, Russian juggernauts.

I'm guessing in about 20 years you'll start seeing propaganda to force it. But that's just the beginning. After that you'll start seeing some kind of kill switch being mandatory. T…

Python and Ruby aren't dominant against C#, Java, and C++. JavaScript is in its own category since you kind of have to use it.

Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as a…

Sadly? If COBOL was the lingua franca of the web would it be sadly?

This is a step in the right direction. I'm always looking for new tools that help in understanding code bases and streamline workflows. The inline table is cool. I like the idea of…

Yeah, she was way too gung-ho about potentially forcing this stuff on people via the water supply. But I'm not surprised that an academic would want to social-engineer this way.

So essentially you agree that at least a quasi-totalitarian world will be needed in order to "protect" the environment. Of course, your premise is that people will just roll over a…

Predictable? There's autocratic regimes out there where life is much more predictable. We probably more laws to keep government and other autocratic shitbags in check.

Yeah, it's always the other guy that needs strict parenting from the government right?

There is no "our goal as society". But the vast majority of people that care about running Matlab, Octave don't share your goal.

Yep, the socialist/statist European downvoting mafia is on the march on this story as usual

Except we all know it's not about safety.

Emacs is my preferred text editor. I don’t use old-fashioned text editors as much as I used to, because I often need more specialized tools. I use IDEs for various programming lang…

My comment about Android was all about market share and nothing about the quality.

The author (and others who use desktop Linux) can't be happy with his personal choice of desktop. Instead he's bitter and angry that others don't make the same choice that he does.…

I really like Dylan, but it has a huge problem that never gets discussed - verbosity. The syntax is entirely too verbose for a modern language. My suggestion would be to first comp…

I pay about $75 for 2 gigabytes from Verizon, so I don't know where these numbers are coming from.

I'm loving the .NET framework as a career. When it comes down to it we have 2 major choices to choose from - Java and .NET framework, with a smattering of Python around. Given thos…

It's going in the wrong direction. Instead of empowering people to make good decisions, you're advocating putting a government gun to the heads of people to make them make healthy …

I have a feeling the only thing that will stop the obesity epidemic is heavy food regulation which people will fight tooth and nail against People rightfully should fight against t…

Blah..blah..blah, "the rich are psychopaths"...blah, blah. This is just more classwarfare, neo-marxist drivel from a predictable rag like the guardian

In the same way the tobacco industry has to pay for the damage it inflicts on the population through taxation, I can see sugar taxes becoming something governments will implement t…

According to Banga, in addition to being bad for MasterCard, cash is bad for countries and governments. Yeah, if you're of the mindset that everything that anybody purchases should…

In the case of Scala, it's not very high because you can just use Scala as a better OO Java. Haskell would be a different story.