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> "it just seemed strange that seeing a doctor (not even emergency room) cost roughly half as much as an iPad." That's the banner headline. What a nightmare.

The supposition is that a more expressive language lets you do more with a single line of code on average than a less expressive language. The second supposition is that commits te…

Yeah, sure. That's what an average is. It is taking the performance of a large case and reducing it to a single unit in order to make comparisons.

Obviously I and the writer of the article disagree with you that it fails the first case.

Well, then your point is to say that comparing two animals on the strength of their legs is ridiculous because both animals have legs. This is just a non sequitur. No one was confu…

This is exactly the point I am making.

Yes, thank you for that 9th-grade science lesson. The commenters in this thread are writing off the data because...? They decided the measure is bad? When the measure conforms to e…

I agree. I was also surprised by Ruby's position. I suspect the problem is related to that with JavaScript. That is to say, people including code in their commits that they didn't …

These are valid lines of code (plus or minus a ;) in both languages.

Fair enough. That is an entirely valid critique. However, I do not think this makes the article worthless. Given the apparent correlation between known expressiveness and the data …

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The data in the article based on LOC seems to match very closely conclusions based on other data. I do not know that we get to throw out this measure just 'cuz. This is proof of no…

That's not what we're doing here. What this article really is an examination based on a set of assumptions about how we can measure expressiveness. This is a difficult thing to mea…

There is a lot of weak-ass criticism going on in this thread when the data -- whatever about its methodology is troubling -- seems to almost perfectly back up what is the common ex…

This is a terrific idea if it means that people become more open to expanding the size of Congress, an idea which is currently met with objections like 'Oh, but then we would need …

Just below this post is "Tips for Gamifying Your Mobile App".

Agreed. This a great article and great presentation.

I appreciate the interesting reading. Thanks for the useful comment!

I think the most interesting question raised by this article is, "Why are the smart people graduating from college willing to get shafted by startups?" Why are schools failing to t…

The additional advantage of this age group being that they generally have no experience with salary negotiations or normal work-life balance. In fact, if they're coming out of a to…

> Startups aren't for financial security. They are for the frontiermen who are hoping to strike it rich in the gold rush. Most don't but some do. I think you mean "Founding a start…