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    Comment #8085504

    So would a ridiculously slow PHP framework be an example of why we don't code serious web apps with PHP?

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    Comment #8085484

    It depends. It's not like there's no safe way of using strcpy and sprintf.

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    Comment #8030429

    It's not (strictly) C, though.

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    Comment #8030422

    C99 compiler won't do, it also requires a GCC extension (statement expressions).

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    Comment #7788889

    Too serious, too serious. I like the best the version in which each participant starts with a can of beverage in one hand and has to finish it before pulling with both hands.

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    Comment #7705371

    I disagree. Even in 2014 we have a place for different kinds of new languages. If we didn't, the likes of C++ would live forever with all their shortcomings.

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    Comment #7705346

    I wonder if there's a (simple syntactical) way to unlink the constness of unique pointers and their targets. It's not a huge obstruction, but seems like an unnecessary restriction …

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    Comment #7705298

    Open sourcing is never the end of a good product.

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    Comment #7705290

    Perhaps we will. I strongly doubt any of those will be even a slight success, unless released by the Atom team (which the copyleft license wouldn't affect).

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    Comment #7378034

    They don't have VAT in the US, and their sales tax is a bit different. I'm not sure if it applies to digital purchases. However, the price difference is often larger than what taxe…

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    Comment #7355147

    The only reason for midnight being a falsy value that I can think of is that someone thought that all objects should provide some functionality for __nonzero__/__bool__. It was a b…

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    Comment #7329185

    Well, I use spaces for marking whitespace in many cases. Just not for indenting, that's what tabs are for :).

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    Comment #7328754

    Just use a capable editor. It's 2014, for heaven's sake!

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    Comment #7290087

    It's not like it runs Linux now, is it? ;)

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    Comment #7289998

    The OS in the most basic of Nokia phones is commonly referred to as S30. It doesn't really need much active maintenance, though, because they mostly only change graphics and includ…