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Major tsunamis in Japan aren't rare at all, they've occured multiple times in the past century. They also don't happen to follow a fixed time schedule. If a built you a house, foll…

The common case of "bundling" is just concatenating files, which works fine if people add their damned semicolons. To quote the author: "not using any semicolons at all is a very p…

Aesthetics is a part of interface design. There can be no divorce here. Even if there could, aesthetics would still matter at another level.

His style is much closer to late 90s geocities websites. Even if that became fashionable again (in an ironic hipster way), there still would no intention behind it on his part. May…

Has he been effective, though? Haven't most his ideas not become popular? Aren't we all not using the idea of OOP that he had in mind? He's talking about the future, which may or m…

No, I'm not saying that. The context is startups. Design aesthetics matter, always . People care about aesthetics. Do you believe Apple is the highest valued company right now beca…

> Alan's not working on startups. Alan is lecturing startups, in this context. > The rest of your comment can be compressed to name-calling ('horrible', 'unacceptable'), and thence…

I'm always baffled by Alan Kay's complete disregard (or possibly blindness) towards aesthetics. His slides are horrible, without exception. You may say: "But that doesn't matter, i…

I was interested to hear the argument up until "Ruby on Rails" showed up. If "Ruby on Rails" does what you need, that's great, but then I'd say you're barely programming anymore, j…

...so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

I was about to write the same comment. Since you beat me to it, I'll just point out that this guy really should put on a proper shirt.

data contained in an exe (or dll) is not necessarily in RAM at all time

If you read the article, you'll see that what Corral is right now (i.e. the supposed "next generation") is in fact being abandoned. It's a dead-end, at the very least.

I'm not doing your homework for you.

Many languages in use today don't even have a (first class) concept of unions or structures, at least not in the sense that you are talking about. If you're talking about about "bl…

...maybe because JSON is one of the worst serialization "protocols" in common use? If you ever need an argument for why "worse is better" actually rules the world of software, poin…

>> The downside is then if you just get a message without knowing what it is about it's difficult to figure out. You're saying that as if there was a clerk reading the message at t…

You're being completely disingenuous here. Nothing is competing with HTML on being what HTML is. Nothing is even close. All text encodings in common use build on top of ANSI. The d…

The manpower behind Linux is superior. Not sure if it's the "vast majority", but for many business cases following the GPL(v2) rules simply is not a problem. Both the PS4 and the N…

Some people care about privacy. Most probably may even care about it to some degree, but not to the degree where they sacrifice their convenience for it. Again, the media has done …

Yes, it is. Fair points, good luck!

> What other game dev tools can a user on a Chromebook use? Or an Android device? Well, you're kinda making a point for me there. Why would a game developer use a Chromebook or an …

Like you said, this is all theoretical. You can reach "the whole world" with the right browser. At that point, you might as well ship an Electron app. But that's not even the point…

This isn't a new problem. We "know" the common people don't care because all attempts at scandalizing this in the media, for years, have not found much resonance.