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Let me guess: because some punter on a website thinks he knows pricing better than Apple, that's only been doing the thing for like 50 products since 2001?

> When was the last time you heard of somebody doing a GUI desktop app or web app in C or C++? While I agree with the rest you said, this doesn't hold. People do GUI desktop apps i…

> So what's new? What do you really win with Clojure other than better libraries and community? Not much. Community and libraries are of outmost importance in picking a language. S…

Prominently, on the parent comment: it makes stuff like this possible: https://github.com/bleibig/rust-repl*

> Is there a word for market based socialism? You know capitalism with hair cut upside (taxation) and a hard floor protected low side (poverty). It's what holds in most European co…

> Why do you think LGBT can't reproduce? Well, B (and maybe T's) can. But LG cannot by definition, except if they momentarily act like non LG's by reproducing with other partners a…

> Also without reproduction nobody would be here. I know that, I was being sarcastic towards the attitude that sees things that formed the bases of society since ever was one, like…

Well, you would have to deploy serious code for projects with far-reaching financial consequences when things go wrong first...

People also sell buttons.

> This is such a stupid strategy. The right thing to do is to look at the root cause of all this. After all, there are lots of angry people all across the world that hate the Weste…

> Why can't the article just come out and say what it means? Militant Islam scares the crap out of the West, and we're willing to pass laws and endure a certain level of self-censo…

Yes, because "free speech" is nice and all, but there are some opinions that you should not have, even on a liberal place like Hacker News. One should not be allowed to divert from…

Yes, and it's kind of true. Achievements are only relative.

> I think the latter is a pretty damning point, given that reproducing is pretty important to the human condition. Not according to 21th century hip ideology. You're insulting all …

This pedophile over there? He's playing in VERY HARD mode, and yet he made it to a congressman. See where the analogy breaks down? Playing "hard mode" doesn't mean you're also doin…

> Who's going to write it? How about the writers for The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Economist, The Paris Review, etc. I could fill up the len…

> In the creepshots case, the material is produced without the consent of the subjects You mean like the best photos of every 20th century street photographer, from Cartier Bresson…

> Two- Competitive forces will favor companies which support this approach. Kinda like open source won the desktop? No wait...

> Sounds like you're looking for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler[0]. James Hague has a good piece on why this might not be so desirable[1]. So, sounds like he's looking for something…

> Yes there is lookup, always lookup. Dynamic language, something in loop could change what lstr is. And why is that presented as something inevitable? The interpreter/compiler cou…

> The point of the OP was "patterns for fast python", i.e performance. It's absurd to claim that you "advocate abstractions over performance" in the context of achieving performanc…

> If I'm not in front of my computer, my phone is more useful for getting to the web. Outside the house maybe. In the bedroom/sofa/crapper the iPad cannot be beat by the phone or t…

> LWN seems to be doing fine So, how do we know they are doing fine? It seems they have a bare bones website with some news. Looking at a sponsors page, I see a single company. I d…

It's called "The Economist". So, a not so wild guess would be: the finance industry, and business and policy circles second, that is Washington, Wall Street, Soho and the like guys…