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Kotlin would preserve Google's investment in Java in a way Dart wouldn't.

The funny thing about your comment is that you could have made the exact comment in 1995 to dismiss Java. Sometimes it just takes very long for ideas to reach mainstream, but they …

The bar for what counts as "innovation" in mainstream languages is strikingly low.

I found it way harder. I'm struggling to reach even a score of 1000 when I rarely score under 10000 in the original.

Hating somebody for writing free software is not anywhere near reasonable. He never forced you to use it.

This article is not about web pages.

So you get other sites to publish your articles, but when other sites want to do the same to you, you call that spam?

Boarding card reissue fee? It's been a few years since I've been on a Ryanair flight, but all the other airlines I've used recently have QR scanners now, you no longer need a board…

Or a github security vulnerability.

There is nothing evil in preventing people from migrating to MySQL.

It has a index clustering operation but this is a one-time operation that will not affect further inserts/updates. But it shouldn't matter, the implicit constraint on a VARCHAR(n) …

> The critique is 'Haskell takes FP to an extreme and I show this is true because someone tried to implement miniKanren and needed Oleg to do it'. >That is not really a strong argu…

You can also tune the fsync option to get mongo-like performance and reliability.

We do this in Sweden too. WWW is pronounced VVV and the car manufacturer is pronounced BMV.

> It's this "the customer is just wrong" attitude that makes some of us sense an area ripe for disruption. Pride goeth before a fall. Doesn't this apply to syntax as well?

If something seems scary/spectacular/surprising it's usually a good idea to do some fact checking. In this case it's very easy, since the authoritative source (Forbes) is available…

So, any programming language incapable of beating a heavily tuned C/ASm h.264 encoder is bullshit?

The vast majority of OTC derivatives was far less disruptive to the banking sector than your average vanilla home mortgage loan during the crisis. An overwhelming majority of all t…

VAT is never charged on assets (which Bitcoin is), only goods and services.

> I don't know but I assume that part of the reason that Swedes are able to deal effectively with the trash is that they sort it properly at the source, so that they more easily ca…

Yes, of course.

No. The authors of GPL-licensed code has no say in how other people license their code they don't own the copyright on. Derivatives of GPL-licensed code is either: 1. GPL-licensed …

No, short term bonds get lower yield because they carry much less interest rate risk. There's no free lunch.

30-year bonds do, but they are not risk-free unless you hold them to maturity.

A friend of mine with a record deal is getting more from a single album sale than he gets from 50K listens on spotify.