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I'm a fan of Rob Pike, but not of Go. Rob Pike contributed a lot of thought to editor tooling through the years, albeit not in the direction the industry seems to be going -- for e…

I wonder if this offers one explanation for nail biting

PHP and JavaScript are dynamic. Here you'll be able to pass distances as feet or meters, but if you try to pass in pounds you'll get a compile time error -- can't do that in dynami…

Running bytecode instructions in hardware essentially means a hardware-based interpreter. It likely would have been the best performing interpreter for the hardware, but JIT-compil…

I also sampled his scalabook domain on wayback machine, and for the life of me I couldn't find any scala book ever having been hosted there -- not within the last few years anyway.…

The "better Java" niche was hot during Java's stagnation era (starting 2006 and lasting for almost a decade). The JVM was considered a great runtime, with a stagnant language, and …

A quick google search brought up a statistic from Pittsburgh 2008 where roughly 1/5 of perpetrators were the legal owners of the gun used in a crime. Gun crimes are so much more pr…

What makes you think they'd think even once?

From what little I know, in the US you can only file patents for "method and apparatus". I could be wrong but I think this is a very common restriction in patent systems around the…

This makes about as much sense as "Is Putin's end game to stop global warming by forcing Europe to move to green energy?" No sense at all.

I seriously doubt that, and besides -- it is up to judges whether evidence are admitted, not public opinion.

This could be relevant for UAV's, but this system would defend against missiles that are purely ballistic -- no electronics to fry. I assume that even if you don't burn through a d…