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No, youre right - brainfuck is a good language.

Brainfuck has the goal of being a bad language.

The presence of the "generic C++ hater" type comment about vtables, when talking about STL algorithms, was a huge red flag making me doubt the guy's argument, for the reasons you gave.

Google can give you a new password if you forget yours. There is no technical barrier to giving the FBI access and clearly no requirement for plaintext passwords anywhere (setting aside how the request was expressed in the article as a request for a password).

Reminiscent of the famous artwork Dead Fly Impaled on Spike (with LED).

From your user page, I see that your IT company likes/dislikes conform to one of the approved off-the-shelf opinionsets. [ticks box] Carry on.

Self-driving cars need to have their windows blacked out.

For a map intended to show the distance of points from the nearest McDonalds' that isn't the best algorithm; equal pixel colour should => equal distance. I was thinking it'd be cool if distance were represented by height, in a 3D rendering. Also, make it a flythrough, with music :)

If you look closely you can see his coloring algorithm is broken. The "spheres" of close restaurants appear to "squash" each other rather than just intersecting. The result is grooves between restaurant spheres that should be more brightly coloured. If anyone even notices this comment and replies to it, I expect them to be disagreeing with me.

TL;DR: I can tell by the pixels.

It also reminded me of various devices related to recording/illustrating the passage of time.

Apple fans try and write in the Apple Voice. Example: HN comment threads about Apple.

The highest voted answer is clearly the sensible interpretation, but people do like to indulge in gossip and the 'politics' answer pushes those buttons.

>Isn't this a little weird, given that MSFT wants people to use "managed code"

What's really weird is MS sell a C++ compiler they don't want people to use!

>Or is it telling us that people who get to choose (free software) aren't going to be using C++11?

That'd be a real shame, for people to miss out on C++11 goodness just because they're MS-phobic.

Kneejerk pseudo-knowledgeable response there.

They are not claiming causation. They are hypothesizing correlation between drinking and sociability/social network size, and causation from that to higher earnings.

I think it's a bigger stretch to propose that social drinking is the preserve of the rich.

Matt Siegler: his wanky, self-applied moniker made me curious enough to find out his actual name.

Japan should stick to trying to fix the problem with technology, since immigration will never, logically, solve any such demographic problem. They should stand as an interesting counterexample.

Yep. The fauxhawk - that was me.