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I'm not sure I follow. What I meant is that a benchmark over a specific task is not really informative without a comparison of why it is slower in some languages compare to other.

I see. That makes more sense. That being said, you are still framing life as a competition/game which I'm not sure I see the point in. For what it's worth, I view religion mostly a…

This is sort of interesting but isn't informative without any idea as to why some languages are slower. What is the difference between the LLVM-IR/assembly produced by C and the on…

Your whole post is extremely American. Why do you want to be #1 compared to anyone, let alone compared to God? You are no longer religious because your self-centric world-view is i…

If you have to assign to a const variable during a small refactor, then maybe it shouldn't have been const in the first place? I'm struggling to imagine examples where this is a re…

Is the code really that complex? Overly verbose, maybe, but its really not that hard to follow even for someone who doesn't know much about C++ templates.

Most people hate const at first (myself included) but once you get used to it, it really does reduces mental load. Not having to glance around is precisely the point, its not a big…

Your law is hilarious. I tend to check the comments before reading a post: if they say the idea is terrible, I know I should read it.

Now my compulsive snoozing can continue even during daytime :)

My guess would be that there's a feedback effect, where posters learn to only post comments which are likely to get upvotes. The net effect is that shared opinions converge. Ideall…

I mostly agree, but we really have no way of telling if its meaningless or not.

This site suffers from extreme group-think. Comments are essentially predictable, as anyone who disagrees with the public opinion will either refrain from posting or not get upvote…

This would be really good for scientific articles. They are usually filled with (important but noisy) details that make skimming them for the important ideas difficult.

I went through elementary school in Inuktitut and don't remember anything about an elaborate vocabulary for snow. Learning stuff for Haskell made it much easier to learn similar co…

Separating HTML from CSS has no basis, they are both concerned with the visual organisation of information. I feel that the real problem is not with CSS, but with how HTML forces y…