TremendousJudge

>or perhaps the problem is implicit allocations rather than value semantics To me, this sounds like this is it. Explicit is better than implicit is a very useful truism

Well, the financial crash of 1929, while resulting in some good financial regulations being enacted, also created such levels of misery and want that people ended up thinking it to be a good idea to e…

Looking from the outside it completely sounds like a death march project and all the engineers and technicians who actually pulled it off deserve a big award and a long vacation. It's not their f…

Maybe not in the US, but WhatsApp is pretty important messaging infrastructure in big chunks of the world

I never understood. Where's the democracy here, exactly? A regular user cannot afford to participate in the decision making of the system in any meaningful way. In fact, today, most users don…

I don't think hiring some certified Agile gurus and reshuffling all the teams in the middle of the project would have improved the chances of delivery.

You seem to be close to the situation. Do you think Indian Walmart is a future inevitability?

That sounds great, but many people (especially those living in cities) don't have that many rooms in their home, so other solutions are needed.

It's probably what the Russian government expected this time around as well -- if they had taken Ukraine in less than a week (as they apparently expected to), the negative European reaction proba…

In my country we have a lowered VAT under certain circumstances. We had a new government tell us they were "reducing the VAT discount to half", just to avoid the word "raise", sinc…

perfect, reads like a story by qntm

In my opinion, they are "freely choosing to talk about him" the same way people freely choose to buy a product after being exposed to advertisments for it.

You are right, my apologies. It was just so surprising a mention I couldn't stop myself.

Of course, I didn't mean this specific document, just a guidelines document similar to this, but for older versions of the language. I'm sorry for comparing to Python again, but it's a …

You really need to live under a metaphorical rock in order to not find out what Musk is up to. He's constantly talked about on this forum, and all other internet forums related to technology. Jus…

What can PHP do that other less vilified languages can't? What is its "niche"?

Imagine if JS had done the same with jQuery

I love this document, because I think that it's a perfect microcosm representing all the problems with the CPP style of doing things are. The guidelines document is: - Self admittedly incomplete …

Why do you have that hunch? Do you presume good will? My hunch says, what if the conversation started as "how do we make users believe there will be less ads"?

Why do you think that?

You'd like to live in a world similar to Blade Runner or Neuromancer? That doesn't seem pleasant at all to me.

I think you're seriously overestimating Chinese economic capabilities. They are still constrained by the same economic realities as everybody else, and -- much as we wish it were possible -- they…

I'm 100% positive that reddit is the better model in general -- at least with the old UI that didn't have all the dark patters to force you to stay on. I still quit it over a year ago becaus…

To be more precise: the laws of physics and chemistry will never allow to pull CO2 from the atmosphere in an energy efficient way The consequence is that, unless all your electricity generation and …

I think you meant "Asymmetric" instead of "Asynchronous". I think Asynchronous games would be something like Travian

There's another theory that fits the data: rightwing sources are more likely to share things that are enraging to rightwing readers. After all, rightwing sources are mostly followed by rightwing …

By "you" you mean a regular Russian citizen? Who is in charge of the clerks under this system, and what ensures that they aren't as corrupt as before?

He was a pioneer in the field of being a rock and roll star with a questionable moral record.

Yeah the REST example makes this painfully clear. Donwright assuming he doesn't know and writing an education explanation on REST to anybody except a junior developer can be downright offensive. …

Why?