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with the iPhone destroying Windows Phone. Which was very unfortunately, because the OS was vastly superior to both Android and iOS. I wish MS would open source it, even partially (like .NET) would be amazing.
I very much prefer DRM over having everything I do on the internet to be monitored.
To really grasp how insanely complex the brain is, I recommend videos about "connectomics" by Jeff Lichtman from Harvard. Real eye opener.
I agree, "write-only" Perl is perfect analogy
"Clean" only if you ignore all those not-clean-no-matter-how-much-you-spin-it steps in manufacturing of solar panels ..
Exactly. It's terrifying how many people still don't get it, no matter how many times it is repeated - you are not a customer, you are a product!
Python?!?! "Significant whitespace" is an abomination from deepest layers of hell.
"Allows"? "Cheap"? AFAIK Amazon paid 75 millions for that ...
Upvote for INTERCAL. Keywords like "please" and "maybe" should be part of every language :)
The only way you can objectively judge utility of a human is by ignoring the part that makes us .. us (whatever it is) and look only at the physical part - how much calories you could gain from eating a body, how much energy from burning it, how well it would serve as a emergency flood barrier ...
"Imminent"? Mixing optimism with delusions is bad, m'kay?
Well, just because YOU cannot write good code with regions doesn't mean it's a bad feature. It's actually very very useful thing, but as with everything, you have to know when and how to use it.