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This discussion is already dead, but for posterity: The real motivation was actually a performance improvement, as can be seen at https://github.com/golang/go/commit/55c458e05f35d0…

I don't think that is true anymore: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-spot-530-000-potenti...

And Wiley / ProjectDEAL just yesterday reached a breakthrough: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/groundbreaking-deal-m... Suprisingly little coverage, but things aren't lookin…

I just don't think it's likely that the real reason most software is crappy, is because nobody thought of extending unit test coverage yet. Selling tools here is not "the other way…

It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that multiple methods and tools might work. It's easier to market a simple cure. Also, the point to "stop making shitty s…

It's just numbers of letters in the alphabet, e.g. 0615180523151804 == "foreword"

They certainly are going above and beyond. It's basically impossible to find a good VPN that works with Netflix, and they also block pretty much every IP range where you can get a …

No, the article states the method will correctly remove the mentioned whitespace characters even from UTF-8 text, because they are part of the 7 bit subset this method works on.

That is very much possible in many cases. Zero cost abstractions exist: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html

Actually they just killed that program, and you won't be able to log via certificates starting early next year.

Not a lot of mention of AI for CS, even in 2002. What about (2080+, P/=NP, proof techniques completely opaque to humans). And by that I don't mean mechanical exclusion of special c…

>The people yelling at you are trying desperately to pretend like it was easy so they don’t feel like an idiot for how long it took them to figure things out. This in turn makes yo…

Not yet - gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150204 (prerelease) But the article reasoning of having to stick it out for a long time doesn't apply anyway when you have a rolling release.

If that would disqualify then so would feeling good about it without telling people, it's the same kind of compensation. And he could even tell people the same thing without really…