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There's even a name for this specific case of disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome "the disorder is caused by positive representations of the city in popula…

Nice, I like the -T option.

The wikipedia page for Tyrosine suggests yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosine#Medical_use

> People are increasingly using Pages, Groups and Albums for all kinds of things that would previously have justified a whole startup This is a snarky comment, but if a company can…

While Haskell is undoubtedly better suited to writing concise implementations of sorting algorithms, the C++ versions given could have been written in a much shorter and clearer fa…

> Americans spend about $100 billion on illegal drugs every year So that's $350 per capita on average. That's a lot higher that I expected.

I was fascinated by what I'd heard about him and wanted to understand his philosophy. I don't think I realised he'd deliberately made it obscure!

"Beelzebub's tales to his grandson" is probably the only book I've found that I really, really, couldn't read. I'd love to know what it means though.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Einstien

This is a better approach, but as you say it does put the configuration overhead on the user - and many users will just click "yes" when asked whether to allow something. So user e…

I agree with what you said about "end user" code actually. I guess I am really arguing in favour of testing, not specifically unit-testing.

One way to look at it is that optimising for testing is optimising for correctness

Years ago, Acid (I forget who made it) used to have great features for beatmatching tracks and pitch shifting. It wasn't the best DAW by any means but it seemed to have been design…

> The 'driver' for flash attached as memory is var = ((var type )(0xsome64bitaddress); It's a nice idea, but the driver for flash needs to do much more than this. For example, bloc…

Bane coerces a trader ... to bet all of Wayne Enterprises’ stock on bad futures Couldn't he just short the future himself?