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Motherfucker needs to publish a book on self promotion.

Motherfucker needs to publish a book on self promotion.

Bill Clinton. Complete and faithful servant of the international bankers. Why?

Your father-in-law has poor grasp of the concepts "Freedom of association", "Innocent before proven guilty", and "Unreasonable Search".

All this contributes to a collective fear of exercising Free Speech when it becomes necessary. You don't give an F now about the fact that company x keeps tabs on you using tech y.…

"RSS is an amazing tool, but maybe we just haven't found the right UI for it yet. Exposing it in the browser doesn't work very well and treating RSS as an Inbox (like Google Reader…

The day that CODE posted to HN to address gaps in knowledge of someone (OP) who complains about "typing all those brackets" gets downvotes, and an entirely ad-hominum comment (your…

The downvotes on my comments are quite pathetic. Take the time to review HN guidelines. I recognize that hitting that down arrow takes far less effort to formulate a coherent respo…

We were discussing the "mistakes" made by the Java design team. JMM is one of their products. It is relevant to mention this fact as it supports the claim that the responsible part…

No. Don't need them. https://gist.github.com/755824

The fact remains that the JVM was designed for Java and mirrors its semantics. The "shortcoming" of Java is due to none other than the JVM: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalA…

"You seem to be arguing that popularity and quality are synonymous. I do not think that is a very useful way to evaluate programming languages." No. And yes, of course. (Java is no…

Judging by the upvotes, the comment was misread. The point was that it is trivial to extend the generalization to avoid verbose references and type names.

That is a non sequitur. A language designer must make choices. 2 choices have been identified as "shortcomings" (in the sense of this thread). Empirical evidence suggests that they…

Its perfectly fine to note that Java can be verbose and that it does not fully support closures. It is perfectly fine to consider these "shortcomings". However, in context of OP's …

"Self made man" is a common phrase, and arguably an expression of a collective understanding. Everyone of us has recourse to the contextual/environmental support that you (correctl…

"Prior to the industrial revolution, status in most societies was based on one thing only: heredity. No matter how much you accomplished - or didn’t - you stayed in the same statio…

Please point out the "shortcomings" of Java. It has done quite well and provably "scales" from programming in the small to enterprise level. Even the required detour of multi-core …

Scala is the C++ of the JVM based languages.

"I was tired of writing code like this over and over again." This is getting tiring: public class MyGraphThingee extends Graph

I downloaded Kod.app to check it out. Great Nordic looks! But this is really not even ready for prime-time, is it? Given the amount of work involved, I'd like to throw in the sugge…

Not sure why you are getting down-voted. I have 2 MBPs. One is s ~3 year old running 10.5 and his baby sister running 10.6. This is entirely subjective per my experience: - the 10.…

The first surveillance state of the union, brought to you by the national security apparatus - national infrastructure division. (facebook+cisco+your-isp=full-stack-surveillance, l…

Digging deeper, you will hit the characteristic comparative pattern of platonic and the physical. Chips are build using matter and the limiting factors are ultimately physical. Alg…

The argument is flipped in a fascist context. Hint: look around.