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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.
Re:The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming on Saturday April 21, 2018 @12:34AM (#16889996)
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 ...
Re:A WebAssembly interpreter written in JavaScript on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:22AM (#15920965)
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?
Re:Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code on Saturday March 25, 2017 @06:18PM (#13957821)
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.