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You are missing the key quality for which industrial scale produce has been selectively bred over the past century: shippability. The ability to be placed in a box and moved thousa…

> Bounds and overflow checking, both on array accesses and on arithmetic I like that one. Anyone know any widely adopted languages that do this?

The big difference here is that states can simply buy access to, e.g., a Cisco Nexus and attack it from inside and out until they find a vulnerability in NX-OS, let's say, a malfor…

Slightly away from topic, but my new burn is "this is so web 2.0." Because that was like 10 years ago. Personally, I think AWS feels pretty "now" with UX only a developer could lov…

This is technically true, which is the best kind of true. Swap in nationalist, chauvinist. It's utterly clear what was meant by racism above, in spite of your semantics.

Most reasonably popular languages will have platform-independent open source read-write libraries for Excel. I've used the Python version of this with minimal pain.

The onus is on him to stop inciting (and personally inflicting) violence against women, Muslims, Latinos, and more. That's what's dividing the country. I'm not going to rely on Dem…

Prove it. Let's see some tax returns. In the absence of evidence, it is reasonable to assume that he is heavily in debt with no liquid assets and effectively poor. He paid a 7 doll…

This is very cool. You had me at David Foster Wallace. I'll be trying this out: 1. As a sublime plugin for my next blog post. 2. As plain old Python as part of a mass scrape-spellc…

Here[1] is (I believe) the originating article. Meanwhile, the first really popular version of Oregon Trail came out in 1985[2]. Ultimately I just meant it as a jaunty shorthand fo…

Yes, some people don't enjoy jokes. This is well documented. I'd rather talk about literally nothing than have another political conversation where I am either preaching to the con…

It's approximately 1978 though '82. Basically the last generation that has a living memory of the before time, but grew up riding the crest of the wave of everything that happened …

You seem fun! There's a deeply sarcastic culture of fake rules at my company, in which groove this fake rule fits precisely. Lunch time is generally understood as a time of bullshi…

I jokingly enforce a no-googling-at-the-lunch-table rule on my millennial coworkers (I'm gen Oregon Trail). This allows for the type of fatuous speculation that makes for decent co…

This is what I'm saying, only if you think unfettered free marketeering is an unalloyed good would you propose that the antithetical position is that the market is evil. If I say I…

To pick on one paragraph, it's not that the left thinks "The Market" is evil. It's neither good nor evil (amoral, not immoral), so it's irrational to count on it to be a force for …

Very cool. Flags I commonly see/implement (curl to Python or Ruby usually) include -o (download) and -k (ignore ssl warnings -- you might want an warning comment if you implement t…

A note: at the time of the Giant Pool of Money, TAL was distributed by PRI. It has never been a part of NPR.

Before even bringing in synthesis, my biggest request would be more control flow (beyond the goto). Loops, if statement, variables and incrementers. Maybe a "key change" we can up …

This was exactly what I was looking for. A survey of the available options. I looked at supercollider before you answered and found the syntax kind of attractive. Sort of scala-ish…

Seems like a sublime text language syntax highlighting file would be more than adequate here.

I've done a lot with Pd and enjoyed the noise-making aspects. I find the composition orientation of Alda appealing, but I would want to be able to pipe in sound from something like…

Is there a larger red flag for the aggrieved tech male to wave these days than whinging about "ethics" in the media?

One of the major problems with police in the U.S. is actually that they are trained and paid too little. Most forces require about a semester of training, which consists mostly of …