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Worth pointing out though that we do already know the answer: 42

To my understanding, "common-law" technically refers to the body of precedent that the United States grandfathered in from English jurisprudence and prior colonial practice into th…

I love the irony in this.

I love how github fosters discovery and remote collaboration, though one of its liabilities is when great git command-line features are effectively lost unless github re-implements…

I see from retina_sam's comment that there's a fellow Mormon commenting here ;-)

A plausible financial incentive for them would be rent-seeking: they might be afraid they lose money on the balance if you only have to buy the game once. Doing it this way they ha…

IIRC Stroustrup mentions a desire for features such as these for versions of C++ after C++17.

To clarify a question raised in this write-up: "auto [a , b , c] = getvalues(); "The braces are needed, getvalues returns a tuple. std::pair is not mentioned in the proposal, so it…

Pedantic correction: "less they become ..." should be "_lest_ they become..."

But that's just the prior, isn't it? What's the full Bayesian picture?

The slippery slope fear is a bigger than which particular phone models will be made technically insecure by what the FBI is asking here and now in this case. The larger fear is the…

My mind is exploding with the possibilities this presents even for existing film and animation production pipelines. Just one example: A layout artist being able to directly sketch…

If you move in the direction of the pattern, its direction should carry you at least somewhat in the direction that a good design would, where 'orthogonal' would not carry you in t…

It feels to me like the argument of this article can be boiled down to: "The Majestic Monolith is a Good Thing, since when you know you're dealing with a monolithic system, you kno…

Thanks for the clarifications. As soon as web text-based protocols were mentioned, I said "oh duh" to myself. There's nothing about the availability of a type system that forces a …

I'll admit my total naivete up front: isn't Swift already a typed language? Is there something about being a web framework that necessitates some other kind of type safety?

The usual expression is "fool proof", rather than "fullproof".

I do worry about programmers forgetting to check hidden layers even more than we may currently tend to ignore comments, so I worry about this adding parallel maintenance burdens ev…

This is why we can't have nice things.

Just FYI, The expression is "rite of passage."

Oui, ja, si, gea, yes.

Yep, Indie games are a gold mine for great/unconventional art and design, as well as original gameplay mechanics. Some ones I've enjoyed: Limbo, Thomas Was Alone, Cave Story, Braid…

Guilt. Making a change towards better treatment of people from different places brings up the poor past treatment, which people don't like to take responsibility for.

There are fringe, exceptional cases where this is a legitimate fear, but in the general broad-brush case, it's largely a self-fulfilling fear, brought about by the way people are t…

I usually prefer the general, English meaning of a word to apply unless there's a particularly compelling case for abusing the word, or the context conveys that specialized technic…