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My sister-in-law is a nurse. I don't expect her to give me free medical care; even less so if I knew she was such a complain-nik about it to her friends online.

Why are you acting as free tech support if you're going to be such a bitch about it?

That's the one.

London metro is greater than a quarter of English population.

It can work. My current company uses a rule system to represent most of our business logic since it is so dynamic. The downside is that we have to rebuild the entire graph into mem…

At the risk of playing the broken record, Docker didn't invent anything, etc. etc.

Would you say that Plug is the Rack of Elixir?

Umm, you know, you're already commenting with your other sock puppet?

Actually, the car is one of the best listening environments most people have ready access to - an enclosed space (perhaps dolby 5.1) with sufficient bass, with all the channels poi…

I seldom see such hippie bullshit espoused on HN outside of Bitcoin/Ethereum threads. Music can sound good and be valuable in any setting: it can sound better with good audio engin…

Oh, do tell me more about how blatantly different "ryanlol" and "ryanl0l" are and how it telegraphs your intentions transparently. If you never vote with this account or on anythin…

> ryanl0l Oh cool, nice sock puppet.

This is not really concurrency, though, it just makes PHP resemble NodeJS.

Rails is at least an order of magnitude more widespread than Django/Laravel/any of its imitators. If you take a swing at any of the follow-ons, its proponents will invariably say i…

> ~15 million API calls per day Isn't that horrifically expensive?

Every thing you said was like a wild logical leap, my neck hurts from reading this.

Doesn't matter. When given the choice between "I believe that God doesn't exist" and "I don't believe that God exists" >99% of atheists would choose the latter as better representi…

I used to work in the music industry. I think your beliefs about writers' knowledge of music theory are way off.

Are you illiterate? He's sniffing at pop stars who haven't gone to the right conservatories.

Umm, Objective-C wasn't a new language for the iPhone.

I have never known a self-proclaimed atheist to actually say as much. This is purely a line toted about by those who wish to paint "atheists" in a certain light ("they're just as i…

Most people who call themselves atheists disagree with you. You should respect others more.

And the finger pointing begins.

It's not a functional language: http://robnapier.net/swift-is-not-functional Please inform me what Swift's type system has over, say, Java as I don't know of anything and neither d…

Swift might be "functional" (which means it has immutable values I guess?) or have a "pretty good type system" (which means it has generics?) but for a supposed "most productive la…