indubitably

How so?

Further efforts to bifurcate the browser market. Keep it classy, Google.

Helpful? It's just true.

Programmers are just self-important.

Well that’s depressing.

Perhaps it's nitpicking, but what benefit is it to not make the GraphQL language be valid JSON?

The standard is excellent, and has been rolled out much more effectively than previous standards (much more smoothly than flexbox, to cite a recent example).

The women involved in this project kicked ass, and continue to do so. What's to feel conflicted about?

It's also releveant that the author feels perfectly justified in making recourse to a hypothesis about history which far from easy to test: “The idea of genius elaborated during the Romantic Age (late 18th and 19th centuries) has done harm to education.”

Compared to what? Clearly he doesn’t know how to make a historical argument — perhaps he considers such arguments beneath him.

It's not just dead people you're talking about, it's the families of those people. Keep in mind that in many cases the recordings of their ancestors are the only ones existing. It's not at all clear that a university or library should always be able to make those decisions without the involvement of the families.

There is often very private, very personal information in language documentation: even though it seems like the fact that the speaker should have been aware that making a recording was equivalent in some way to publication.

Plus, it's important to remember that before modern standards of informed consent were created, many linguists didn't have the speakers' best interests at heart, and were unscrupulous about recordings.

The ethics of legacy field recordings is a very messy business, with consequences ranging from legal measures to the unceremonious end of otherwise productive relationships between speech communities and researchers. I've seen cases where individual children of a single speaker have had differing opinions on what should happen to recordings.

There are whole subfields of language documentation, language revitalization, language reclamation, etc. There are conferences (ICLDC, Breath of Life, Language is Life just to mention three), journals (http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/), funding organizations, archives, PhD programs around the world…

So, yes, there are efforts.

Because you want to be nice?

I don't understand why Python people aren't more intent on getting it into web browsers. Or are they?

Could mean almost anything but what generativist linguistics (or whatever the latest label for the Chomskyan school) does, which continues to promote the notion that language is essentially algebraic, that "grammaticality" is binary, and so forth. It's simply not the case that Chomsky is "okay" with approaches to the study of language which are not in accord wiht his own. He repeatedly dismisses whole subdisciplines as "uninteresting," but in context those complaints don't mean "uninteresting to me," they mean "worthless."

I don't think so at all. Natural languages evolve with ambiguity built in — any sort of ambiguity is almost always an error in programming.

Could you explain what you mean by this?

unicorns all around

What's impossible about that? Many languages have complicated inflection patterns like that.

codingame has destroyed my productivity because it is awesome

Apparently nothing was ever more important than renewing the domain…

"But despite the sneers, I kept hammering a theme in speech after speech and conversation after conversation that went sort of like this: “Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your girlfriend’s itch?"

Jesus. I am not a screaming social justice warrior. But really, is this trope of women being computational idiots going to last forever? Why does the community put up with it?

There are a MILLION other nouns that could fit into this sentence.

Pretty rich coming from the complainer-in-chief of JS, the guy who advises not employing people who don't happen to agree with his personal take on how JS should be written.

But undefined is specific to Javascript… there are lots of other Javascript things that JSON doesn't handle either, like Set or Map objects. It's not intended to serialize arbibtrary JS objects — it's intended to serialize a useful least-common-denominator which has proven useful through experience.

p { color: hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0.8); }

(There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter.)

Good grief, what a lovely offhand comment that is.

Why would NK do that?

The internet.

    Keep your personal quirks out of it

    Don’t personalize your work in ways that would require explanations.

    I like taking advantage of variables to compartmentalize logic.

This is totally off-topic, but man, Norvig writes some miserable HTML.

It's not just Edge users, I get the same constant annoyances with Firefox.

Are you in HR?