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The lower the standard of your team, the more you will appreciate idiomatic code. I don't work in SV, blue chips, or anywhere that could use Scala. A couple of us at my last place had a hard time moving the team from Source Safe to SVN, Git was out of the question. "What's the point of commit messages if you only commit every three months?" - not kidding, not a junior. Lines thousands of characters long, literally. I saw a pattern once. Once. CIO was one of these copy/paste VB devs, common in London, an unfair generalisation, but necessary as a warning sign. Some people become developers without any interest in development, completely oblivious to *nix/open source world, simply as a job, 9 - 5, and might have flipped a coin between development and accountancy. Some places don't give a shit about software development, or the idea of engineering - "just get it done!". Resharper, fxcop? Yeah, right. Degrees don't all teach compiler design, some just Java OO and a bit of Glassfish. If Go replaced C# in all of these arbitrary SMEs there would be far fewer WTFs. But people would struggle without Visual Studio debugging and a big run button. I'm being harsh, and seriously, not suggesting anything about MS devs, who include the world's best as well as the world's worst, but I find people on this site are often, to their fortune, oblivious to what working in the 99% can be like (the figurative 99%). Long live idioms, gofmt, golint.

This doesn't have developer salaries, but might be of interest. Edit: Forgot the link: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

Can you explain that to this lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebelli...

If you don't share your cookies, we will revolt and take your cookies, and everything else you have while we're at it.

"larger species likely took advantage of being able to move faster, burrow better in sediment, or eat larger prey" -- larger species burrow?

Is this sort of thing more tolerated in China where people are used to having explicit network interference, eg great firewall?

"..representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning... consciousness is some sort of sophisticated, elegant computation ..." -- But would it love?

In the UK it seems that politicians are guilty participants in the world of child pornography.

Yes, that London cost of living is way off.

I was thinking this comment sounds a bit alarmist and paranoid, and Alex Jones came to mind. Lo and behold, you mentioned von Mises. Racism and fascism are not equivalent to the holocaust. Even apartheid era South Africa was not equivalent to the holocaust. There are many degrees of shit between happy and holocaust.

Looking up "yaan" - Hindi for vehicle.

That presumably also explains why this post has rapidly vanished off the front page, unlike the cats in boxes story. I know, someone will tell me it's algorithmic.

Indiscriminate down votes have to be met with indiscriminate up votes. What a daft situation.

Edit: Ah! That also explains why explanatory comments aren't required for down votes - preferential control. I didn't realise how rigged this is.

I meant what is the reason, but the comment history does have a lot of down votes. I'd search through them for a reason, but that could a while.

Agreed. "all the time" - is there a history behind that?

From the article: UK police watchdog: burglary and car crime "on verge of being decriminalised."

At what depth underground does the temperature become tolerable?

I was thinking something less obviously encrypted than a usb stick with a dialog box saying "Enter password" - how about steganography? "A password for my image?"

Would I be right in suggesting that it's not encrypted data unless someone can decrypt it to prove so? In other words, we're free to send garbled nonsense to each other.

I have no interest in ball games. I enjoy Formula 1, some MotoGp, and some some cycling. My interest in Formula 1 used to be primarily strategy, but not anymore and I'm not sure when it changed - maybe refuelling, or moving everyone onto the same tyres. There's is nothing cultivated about my disinterest in ball games. If I did have an interest in football/soccer then I would cultivate a disinterest because I wouldn't support something so regularly in the news for corruption. My first live football/soccer game was one of the biggest let downs of my life - I sat there dumbfounded that anyone could be interested. I found the live games look better the further up I sat in the stands, and the bigger the stadium, but still no interest. I went to a rugby final something or other (Wasps vs Leicester?) and fell asleep. There is no chance of me following them just to have small talk with someone, I can work around that.

Is that the question to ask? Isn't the question to ask where is this headed, on a grander scale?

For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction.

Bad meta. Sorry to lure you into it. I'll vote you back up.

Righteousness opportunism.

So why did flip get down voted, and not Jacques?

Counter example: I worked with a woman who was such a team player that after literally every email she sent me she would walk over to my desk and disturb me to check that I got it and get my response. Maybe she had only ever used a one way email system. I could have done with a little less teamwork in that situation.

Not even industrial chemicals - colgate plax mouthwash causes my tongue to develop weird flat patches within a day of a single use. Takes two weeks to clear up. There was a Bloomberg article not too long ago about them using, iirc, triclosan in their Total toothpaste, which is considered dodgy by many. This chemical soup experimentation is way too close to home for me.

I'm not Italian. My opinion of Italy is not great, but not because of ordinary Italians speaking badly of it, rather because of the likes of Berlusconi. People voted for him!? It matches my experiences there, such as being unable to buy a train ticket without the guy in the booth trying to rip me off. I eventually got fed up and when I went to a major sporting event which should have cost me €300+, I just bought an official some beers.

"they hope to sweep this high end market"

How long before something like this ends up in the Gp's office?

"non-traditional names that have no racial implications, like "Rainbow" or similar"

Aren't the races behind these names usually clear? In Africa such names are along the lines of Pretty, or Precious, and in the west they're Apple, or Peaches.