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Umm, newspapers enjoy freedom of the press because the 1st amendment explicitly guarantees freedom of the press. > Congress shall make no law [...] or abridging the freedom of spee…

The only time I could ever see us adopting new calendar systems is when (if) we eventually migrate off-planet into space colonies or onto other bodies in the solar system. Why? Bec…

Good. Get off this ride. I'm asking why the hell we are still stuck with the current packaging schemes.

This attitude is exactly why Linux has such a horrible, horrible packaging experience. Building cross-distro packages is awful. Teaching users how to install packages is awful. Ins…

Can we please stop talking about these "laws" that are based on absolutely nothing but observing an apparent trend that may not continue past tomorrow? Seriously, spoken to too man…

Are there plans to work on integrating PGP encryption? N1 really looks nice but there are many people, like me, who can't move over until it gets e-mail encryption support.

OK, I'll grant it this, PHP performance has improved quite a lot in recent years.

Anything else.

Does it have encryption yet?

- PHP is slow. Unlike JS, it's generally interpreted and not JIT (unless you're Facebook). - Drupal has to bootstrap itself and all modules on every request. - Drupal makes waaaaay…

Drupal has always performed like shit. 10/sec is actually pretty good for Drupal It's only good for managing static content, the only way you get any sort of performance out of it …

That wording is worse than absurd. It's comical. Their ability to use a thesaurus does not make them intellectuals, in fact the exact opposite.

Howabout the question is, should Congress repeal the All Writs Act.

Really? What is this 10%? We're using Haskell for server-side programming at my work and it's been fantastic. Functional programming is so well suited for stateless web services.

What I don't get about publishing the hashes, etc... if they are serving up tampered .iso files, why wouldn't they also change the website to serve the appropriate hashes for the h…

created to stop a threat to humankind that we must defend against

I don't think MVC belongs on server-side web frameworks at all. It's not a continuously updating interactive display, it's a one-off thing. You don't have a model object sitting ar…

The point is that we did not have an opportunity to influence the negotiations and therefore the text of the treaty. We instead are presented almost with a fait accompli that we mu…

I'd like to point out, in support of your arguments, that all artistic works are derivative. Creative works are not created in a vacuum. They copy and derive build upon the cumulat…

Scala does not have lightweight threading. It uses the same thread pools from Java. All your millions of Actors are scheduled onto one of these thread pools.

Scala runs on JVM and uses the same OS-level threads. What's going on here is the actors are being scheduled to run on a thread pool.

Scala runs on JVM and uses OS-level threads. However, Actors are not threads, so in a way it's like user threads. One million actors will be scheduled to run on a pool of OS thread…

Similarly the Haskell and Erlang are using lightweight threading.

This is why the JS ecosystem frustrates me. We're talking about an ES7 -> ES6 transpilation, which I will then have to transpile again to ES5. And that's before we even hit the VM/…