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Please don't compare insurance companies to casinos. In casinos the odds are completely computable and known beforehand to everyone. Not so with insurance which deals with real lif…

Does taking input from the outside (e.g. internet) change this?

AFAICT, "good engineers are productive in X" doesn't imply that they wouldn't be yet more productive in Y.

This should become a law, like Brook's, Sturgeon's or Greenspun's.

30 credits doesn't equal 30 hours as far as I know. But still, I think GP should just suck it up and finish his degree, he has only a very limited amount of time to lose by doing s…

What makes you think that proprietary software doesn't have good commit messages?

I hope you learnt something about using magic numbers.

> Plugins for printf()/scanf()?? Not even remotely the kind of thing that needs to be in the core language libraries. Where then? As far as I can tell, there's no sensible way to e…

I don't see how unions could save space, care to explain?

All I can see is confusion about what is deemed "non-intrusive" and by whom.

For the sake of argument (let ((my-favorite-programming-language (find-language "common-lisp")))): I would like to see Lisp and *nix have babies. Take the best ideas of both and ma…

And here I almost thought I was going crazy...

This must be the 9001st time I read a post by a C++ programmer that doesn't understand that the problem isn't that other languages don't have RAII. The problem is that C++ doesn't …

> Bellard did this in 15 seconds, in 2004 with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 But isn't Linux kernel a lot bigger nowadays?

In other words, automated "now playing" scripts are as annoying and useless on social media as they were on irc and and instant messengers.

The idea seems good, but I think many people would prefer a demo (or more explanation) about how it actually works, preferably without the user needing to supply his/her email. On …

I think there's a huge pent-up demand for software that makes it easy for artists to publish their own content on their own websites easily and also makes making and collecting pay…

> I've still no clue why humans procastrinate. I've still no clue why people consider doing stuff so important.

Consing for control-flow is not normal, but on Python it is. Python - not even once.

Epileptic here, not allowed either.

> I've developed an aversion to anything that doesn't follow the Zen of Python: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Ok, so which language(s) are…