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That's what I was thinking... Why can't we solve this with non-repudiation crypto that is already available?

I have mixed feelings about the various arguments I see raised in the comments. It seems crazy to me to insist that efficiency and productivity gains via technology have, as their …

One weak advantage is panspermia allows you to avoid the question.

That seems to be an odd way of looking at it, IMO. Most of the time, the entire point of building an API is to present consistent functionality to any consumer, not only ones under…

Are there significant risks from running virtualization locally like this? If so, can you provide any links or elaborate a bit so I can follow up? Most of what I've seen on such vu…

Seems like that would require an understanding of language that far exceeds the current state of the art. And much of the time logic doesn't even apply because the text is incohere…

The things you cite as missing in C# can be found in F# on .NET Core. Have you ever tried it? I find it hard to stomach C# after delving deeply into F#, and you still get to use Da…

I'm genuinely curious if there are black or African American programmers who actually use git who are offended by the term. Speaking for myself (white programmer) it just seems to …

With respect to evolving balls of mud, the only thing that mostly worked for me is to try to find those boundaries where you can apply the [Strangler Pattern]( https://docs.microso…

This made me laugh out loud. Early this afternoon I walked by a local church on the way to do some shopping and there was a group of 8 or 9 people kneeling in front of it praying. …

I hardly know where to start with this. Parachutes are not a cliche example of anything other than engineered products that are the result of well understood principles of physics,…

Again, this is the very thing that needs to be shown. You're simply repeating the same mistake. The post I was responding to really had no _point_, per se. It merely asserted that …

It's simply a problem of what is considered to be evidence in the scientific community. If everyone "got cured by a miracle drug", that implies you already have the compelling evid…

What... what?! You think that | ...those people recorded while spreading their spit all over a train cart. are simply acting in ignorance because they have no idea how to behave?

A very high percentage choose to buy a house or car, or have children as part of their life planning when things look fairly stable. When you grow up and have adult responsibilitie…

I don't want to discuss this forever but I have a couple of comments: Your points about efficiency are a separate topic entirely from the original claim that manually writing out a…

I agree with everything you've said here but being mentally exhausted doesn't make it more likely that you can read even more lines of code in a more reliable fashion. I think the …

That's quite an interesting, if frightening, take on it. Assuming a developer knows what `map` does, then I wouldn't have very much confidence in their reading comprehension if the…

Can you explain why you think it makes O(n) blocks trivial to identify? How is such identification made easier by manually writing out a `for` loop applying a function foo to each …

They could possibly do this but the logistics would be messy. For large marathons, people travel to the destination from all over the world and book hotels in the city where they c…

The most depressing thing for me as someone who loves F# is how `.net` is nearly synonymous with C# in most people's minds

Meetings, working on docs etc can still be billable. 8 hours straight in the zone every day? Nobody does that.

Maven and Gradle don't run anything in a dedicated JVM. They're just tools to accomplish various goals based on your dependencies: compile, package, test, maybe deploy. Not even re…

More like they have a right to their beliefs, inferior or not, as long as they don't try to impose them on me.

I honestly fail to see what has been dishonest in the communications around this. The plan for .NET 5 does, in fact, unify .NET Standard, Core and Xamarin. These will no longer be …