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I only see one person throwing a fit over a product comparison here.

Now, now. You can't claim that they aren't similar, because the concept here is unifying both launchers and task lists, which was what distinguished docks from task bars before. Th…

"Most users never program their computers themselves. Anyone can plainly see the historical trend from the late 80s onward that the average user has no interest in the internals of…

Using the vile arts of Necromancy, I bestow upon this dead post a grotesque mockery of life! Edit: Well now I'm dead too. Should've been wiser to just copy+paste a dead comment. St…

That was hilarious, man. Thanks for that. Oh, wait, it was serious?! Well now, how are you going to map this issue to something which isn't, in the end, anecdotes, since it pertain…

I think it's much more likely that it's just somebody who dislikes a language and stated it in a smartass way, as programmers are wont to do.

Maybe it was the way you phrased your post? The sentence "If you found this interesting you might also enjoy" probably sounded 'botty' to the spam filter. Aside: There seems to be …

> It seems to me that there are two ways one can approach this subject. On to proclaim that these are intentional acts of portraying females in a negative light and keeping them ou…

Yes, I agree. Way better than most HN articles.

But isn't Jython years behind the CPython version, PyPy still experimental and on Python 2.x, and IronPython mostly a novelty? Stackless seems in better shape, though, and couldn't…

I upvoted you. This whole semicolon war is the most banal and self-aggrandizing conflict I've seen in a while, rife with as much vanity and childishness a the ``blogosphere'' allow…

Alright, I'll spell it out for you: the behaviour may be what you'd expect from floating-point comparisons, but it doesn't have to be a floating point comparison in the first place…

Yes, I have, thank you. How's the health? Oh, and "everyone knows that PHP lights the upper-rightmost pixel in you screen purple and will crash if there's no screen" would not, in …

> "no good reason" is entirely subjective, though. If your purpose is to make the language simpler to newcomers, implicit conversions everywhere are a great way to get things done.…

Why, it does indeed say, a link or two down from there, that strings will be coerced to float: http://web.archive.org/web/20091024234517/http://www.php.net... The point, however, i…

> It does not throw it away on an obscure whim. So you could have predicted this yesterday? Just because it's codified somewhere, it doesn't make it clear, or anything other than a…

That's an opt-in workaround, and proposing it as a solution is like trying to cover the Sun with your thumb. You'll have an infinite number of errors everywhere you can input numbe…

> Intolerable for real-world use. A toy language. Alas, PHP, we hardly knew you... I'm sorry, I would like that to be true, but programmers rarely are half as smart as they think t…

Well, you can't really much rip the US highway system off the face of the Earth, and I'm guessing that it's rather inconvenient to route around it, but you surely can not use PHP, …

> PHP wasn't "designed" ... it evolved. Pieces were added, here and there, re-factored, deprecated, etc. etc. We are all aware of that. We don't like that. Not because of its genes…

> racist against whites I believe that, technically, the term would be "discriminatory" in this case, white people being in a position of relative power and privilege in the West (…

> Adorable racism. How so? Shutting your eyes doesn't make the bias go away.

I don't if I get this, but I'm having a hard time picturing just who are you able to get for less than USD 1000 /month, since most developers here would scoff at less than ~USD 150…

Walking out may feel good, as righteous indignation so often does, but it doesn’t help your situation. You give up any chance you had of getting the job. Lying is easily disproven,…