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I'm a bit baffled by this comment, so much so that I find it difficult to believe we've read the same article. I don't see any indication in the article that the author ever submit…

Yes, it's a curious coincidence that the people writing this report, surely in good faith, just happened to pick March 2020 as the point of comparison.

> the default would be to just build housing without any regard to affordability. Luckily, that would still lead to affordable housing, because "just build housing" is what actuall…

> That's obviously not the distinction between the parties here. The second one intends (or at least has a policy to) do something about it, but just not by raising the existing CO…

> As an example, 2 parties could both say No to a higher Co2-tax, but one of them does so because they claim climate change is a hoax, while the other one has a problem with it not…

The grandparent didn't say nothing bad happened at the protest, they said that Trump's comments were taken out of context, which is completely true. Read the thing in context (here…

Corporal punishment, hopefully.

Facebook famously has dual-class shares that give Mark Zuckerberg a majority of the votes. The shareholders can't make him do anything he doesn't want to do.

Why would languages without tail recursion optimisation perform worse when all languages use the naive implementation? It's not tail recursive, so it shouldn't make a difference, r…

> Some particular names used in the examples were introduced by Python. For example the `enumerate` function or `zip`. I haven't seen those names used in programming languages olde…

> People can't discriminate on properties that the person they are doing business with can't pick or change [...] but can discriminate on properties that the person in question did…

You're right, of course. I blame low blood sugar.

> every 5th german is named lars That is completely untrue. Lars isn't exactly a rare name in Germany, but I'd be surprised if it was even one of the 20 most common first names. It…

match also lets you destructure values, which is useful when you're dealing with enums. It also doesn't have C's fall-through behaviour. Edit: match doesn't insist on a default cla…

House is basically a modern interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, with the same unpleasant personality. Which seems to contradict the idea that jerk protagonists are a new phenomenon.…

Don't worry about it. This was back in December, so there is no point digging it up now. I just needed to vent.

When I applied, the interview process went like this: > 1st phone interview (screening) -> 2nd phone interview (technical) -> [crickets] I get it, we are all busy, but I think send…

"The fucking article's author"

While I appreciate the sentiment of settling debates with data, you have to actually measure the right things. That statistic that says that only 2% of bugs would be prevented by s…

> Rust pulls some really nice trick, but cannot match Haskell. I'm not convinced that's true. Rust is even stricter than Haskell in many respects (first example that comes to mind …

I've used mio and I also have nothing but praise for it, but it is a fairly thin abstraction over epoll/kqueue. That's certainly useful, but it's not nearly as nice or easy to use …

> I'm interested in writing some random things in Rust, but very much not interested in _re_writing Rust code in newer Rust. This probably means it's still too early for me, if the…

Germany doesn't have nuclear weapons.

> Haskell could be wonderful. Never tried it. Will someday. Until then, I'd love some sort of competition where a Haskell programmer and myself are given a task, like "write a scri…