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Not to mention the increase in difficulty of remembering the variable names.

With the risk of RSI, I don't need to type any more than I already do. In a perfect world tab completion would exist everywhere and you could make arbitrarily long variable names. …

Certainly that's a motive too. And it's no secret that the government (in particular the NSA) has been amassing large swathes of data on what could be the entire population of the …

ok, what I said was based on something I heard Julian Assange said in an interview from about a year ago. Apparently he hasn't given any proof for his statement (namely, that Faceb…

The real reason for this isn't to improve comment quality; it's so they can store information on you more effectively and then sell it to the government. Facebook has a leg up on t…

What the fuck is a stack?

Thanks for mentioning sets - this is another thing that I would like to be built-in in Ruby. But "list(set(mylist))" seems like kind of a hack. > you can import the rational class …

This is the kind of reasoning that lies behind LFMs: that it is better to cater to someone who knows nothing about the language (but maybe has a few mainstream languages under thei…

I used Python for a really long time and switched to Ruby several months ago. Benefits of Ruby are: -no distinction between expression and statement (everything has a value) -lambd…