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I was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find the first sensible comment. Congrats. The internal logic of these claims is non-existent. During the actual campaign Hillary…

Because the actions that would be obvious outcomes of the identified problems are pointless to suggest, they will never happen. For example, a key issue identified in this discussi…

Kotlin has null, but also nullability in the type system. They kept it in for interop purposes. Also, optionality is very common, so having it integrated into the language makes it…

It's not a theory, it's a description of my observations. I've presented my sources. Why not go find counter-examples? I bet you'll find it's harder than you expect. But OK, I'll m…

That attitude doesn't help the cause of women in tech. It makes things worse. Machines don't have empathy. They do not care about feelings. Code is harsh. So are professional code …

"Women in tech" events are a good example of how women exclude themselves. A typical event has the following attributes: - Men strongly discouraged or banned from participating. - …

You're assuming CS class performance correlates with ability. Most of the people on my CS course hadn't programmed before, and they mostly all passed. But many of them couldn't cod…

Because the idea that gender disparities are due to the choices men and women make is some sort of ideologically impure heretical thought, for some reason. If it's not to do with o…

Maths is clearly warmer. Go look at the stats for undergrad vs postgrad. There's a huge difference. Women get maths degrees to become teachers, more or less.

GOSPLAN didn't fail because of lack of MapReduce. I don't think you could make a planned economy even with all the big data tools that exist today. There's far too much important i…

Maybe not, but it worked out pretty well for him.

I realise we're not meant to meta-discuss here, but that post you're replying to was flagged and dead, and I vouched for it. For what it's worth, I agree that the post was ridiculo…

No, SubstrateVM and Graal are both open source. The enhanced versions compile to faster code, pretty much. You can do without them if you don't want to pay.

That implies the balances are being represented as floats and turned directly into strings ... how does something that basic happen at all? Is Sabadell's Spanish web UI like that t…

Who is suggesting that will happen? I suspect you aren't quite sure about what "support" means here. It doesn't mean your app suddenly stops working one day. For most apps it'll ma…

There are several points in this post but the bulk of it is, I feel, one of those classic fallacies that journalists or security hobbyists often engage in: "I found what looks like…

And OpenBSD has large numbers of skilled VM engineers sitting around doing nothing? OpenJDK is Oracle. They're the same people. If Oracle stop releasing bug fixes to the open sourc…

How is selling security fixes unprecedented? That's basically the entire Red Hat business model in the early years - yes the fixes are "free" if you want to spend all your time dow…

developers, pay us or we will direct your players' complaints to you How is that even remotely unreasonable though? The game example is poor for a different reason; Oracle don't se…

There is no sign reflection is going to be removed. That wouldn't be possible anyway. The "denial" of use of internal APIs can be disabled with a command line switch. The point of …

The only other companies that have been proposed all make money by charging for support. And since when is charging money for work done 'greedy'?

Well, the intervention is to change the pensions, surely. And the goal is to intervene before a collapse occurs rather than afterwards. If the argument is "we don't need to change …

Haidt is a psychologist whose research and advocacy has in recent years moved towards political bias in universities, in particular he talks a lot about student and faculty driven …

That makes it sound like it's all the students fault. I studied CS at a top tier UK university (not Oxbridge but a tier below). The course was a mess. The professors were useless, …