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His main concern is that you lose static checks by the compiler, you lose clarity in the code, you lose dynamic configuration of objects AND you have to use yet another DLL (and a …

What they made is not a histogram, since it's value agnostic. It's just a way to present values, nothing like bins and such is necessary for using it. So, in case of negatives you …

> At least you can fork it internally though and support it if need be. That's almost as realistic as "the community could do a clean-house implementation of XNA" for large project…

In what way did .*Lion broke third party developers?

> The Bible is not remotely as well written as the Iliad, nor is it comparable as a work of philosophy to Plato. Tens of Thousands of top notch literary critics, philosophers and i…

> Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting. What a joke. I don't see any joke. Jokes …

> So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that. Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie …

The domain knowledge when it comes to implementing algorithms is algorithms themselves...

> Wouldn't it be more important to have people to come up with brilliant solutions on problems they are working on, rather than hard problems in general that have already been solv…

> but what I do know is how to find out the answer given a computer and an internet connection. Then you are not good enough for them. They want someone that breaths and knows thes…

> What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00? Then go back to sleep, dummy. Does he have to spell it out for you? > Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling…

Road rage? People going on rampage with guns and killing tens of innocents? Fatso kids screaming in restaurants and behaving badly in public? The most BS self-entitled complaints i…

Ever tried looking around you? Do you need a citation that air is important for breathing?

Citation is needed in novel and unexpected statements and conclusions. ("Extraordinary claims", etc). Well known facts should need no citation upon an audience of educated adults. …

I want the 30" of my life lost for reading your comment back.

> Building responsively is an investment for the future. You can bet good money that there will be more and more diversity of screen sizes as we keep going. I find responsive desig…

> I disagree with this post No, you actually AGREE with this post. The posts says "for 95% of cases", that is, for most cases. Your case, "firefighting", is a 5% outlier.

> When you use this manipulation to get your way to your kids, the kid watches you, and you find yourself the lab rat of a psychological manipulator far more capable then yourself.…

Beat them when they yell?

Which is not the same at all with having thousands of proprietary third-party apps to distribute in closed source form (as opposed to having control of some open source repo with r…

> Selective enforcement of the "law" is no law at all. Actually it's very much a law. And it's how the law works in the real world. It might not be "justice", but it's law alright.…

> Your analogy fails because MIT IT certainly know what they could do to secure their systems more robustly, and chose not to do so. While I am pro Aaron and anti-MIT this is argum…

Sure. The stagnation part was about becoming too slow to move forward. For example, with all it's lisp scripting capabilities and 30+ year history, Emacs is an early nineties edito…

> Now Windows 8 (moreso RT, but even the x64 version) and Mountain Lion are moving to the walled-garden, segregated, impotent app approach What can't you do in ML that you could in…

OK, here's a question: is this the same version that was around for half a decade, or is it updated to the latest LLVM API etc?