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_akei
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Comment #21872947
It was the next logical step for Russia after they built their own GPS and their alternative to the World Bank, the BRICS bank. Their biggest enemy has proven that they cannot be t…
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Comment #21856229
Capitalism is unethical. No economic system is perfect. Ironically, when the rich in the US are in financial trouble, they force government to be communist. Like in 2008 recession,…
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Comment #21855570
What is incorrect about my statement? In case you don’t know or want to be reminded, the name of the ruling party in China is called ‘China Communist Party’.
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Comment #21853085
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Comment #21824357
US residents have to compete with prospective students from other countries. Some of those countries rank better than the US when coming to STEM subjects. They end up getting admis…
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Comment #21812101
Clear and concise to someone new to programming. Also less typing. Comparison of an a market leader to a new entrant is designed to make you switch from market leader to new entran…
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Comment #21812086
I am indeed talking about Android Java.
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Comment #21811662
Now that is a good strategy. Copy directly from a language that is moving at a very fast pace and competing directly with the language you want to replace.
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Comment #21811484
It is mostly C# that is keeping Java on their toes. Java competes with C# than any other language in this world. In the enterprise space, it is either Java or C#. If you check most…
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Comment #21811426
Checked Exceptions are the main reason I switched to C#.NET. I hated checked exception. I know the designers wanted to save us from ourselves but they ended up making the language …
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Comment #21811331
Thanks. It makes sense because it doesn't have statement. Ternary operator wasn't going to be possible.
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Comment #21811269
> What's the difference between ternary operator and inline if/else? There is no difference. Ternary operator is a syntactic sugar for if/else. > Is there even any reason for if/el…
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Comment #21811155
I haven't used Scala before. What is their reasoning for that?
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Comment #21810846
They explain it here[1] on their discussion forum but still it doesn't make sense to me. If is a statement in every language I know and returns a value, but still those languages h…
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Comment #21810729
Whenever I see an article comparing a market leader with an underdog, I always know that the article will be biased against the market leader. It is human nature to root for the un…
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Comment #21751224
> making our amazing designer create a Shopify site that he/she can manage him/herself This statement sounds like your co-founder is just getting rid of you because he realised a d…
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Comment #21750048
Maybe they are saying it is much easier to enter the country? I will give an example with my own country -> South Africa. We have more white people than all other Africa countries …
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Comment #21749995
Even though South Africa has 11 official languages, English is the most official language in South Africa. When speeches are delivered by public officials, they are 99% in English.…
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Comment #21738186
I started seeing it on VS2017. I use it a lot in VS2019.
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Comment #21738180
Visual Studio copied Resharper. VS now suggests some new language features.
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Comment #21720747
For that to happen, functional languages have to take over. Most people are just not into functional programming languages. They prefer imperative programming languages. I feel Mic…
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Comment #21720733
I have been programming in C# for 13 years now. Majority of new features are just syntactic sugar. Code I wrote in 2009 is still running even in 2019. I don't rewrite my applicatio…
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Comment #21680917
I have a Huawei P30 Lite which I use for work purposes. Build quality is better than Samsung. I prefer using it over my iPhone. It is nowhere near inferior. Did I mention that it i…
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Comment #21670751
More risk for zero gain.
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Comment #21670076
I can simply navigate to old.reddit.com if I really wanted old reddit. I am fine with new reddit.