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Forlienon The State of JavaScript – Survey results

Did you link the wrong page? It looks like they are advocating switch statements.

Forlienon Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence

Sargos mentioned 3 benefits that they would expect - flexibility, polish and accessibility.

Sure, maybe we have enough flexibility right now, but Dwarf Fortess definitely isn't a paragon of polish or accessibility.

Forlienon Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones

When police departments seize electronics, like phones or computers, I thought it was standard for them to clone any hard drives so that they don't lose any data to similar techniques.

Is there a reason that they couldn't employ this countermeasure for your suggested security?

Forlienon Facebook Reactions

Are there any chats that don't do this? How would you have implemented it?

Forlienon Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket

I'm confused by your argument that because the service's status may change, it shouldn't be bundled. Couldn't they update to remove Pocket if the service goes away? It's not like Firefox is going to stop development anytime soon.

Forlienon OO languages spend most effort addressing a minority use case

I think you and tonyedgecombe have different definitions of support. In my understanding, default implementation was included to allow adding methods to interfaces without updating the classes that implement them. You can use this feature to do something like multiple inheritance, but I haven't heard anyone recommend it.

Forlienon Going undercover as a sex worker

I'm just following links others have posted, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Germany#Human_....

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Germany links to a US Trafficking in Persons Report 2010. Here are some quotes:

"Ninety percent of identified victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation came from Europe, including 28 percent from Germany ..."

"... approximately one third of identified sex trafficking victims reported that they had agreed initially to engage in prostitution."

"Police estimate that gangs brought around 1,000 Chinese people to Germany over the past decade and forced them to work in restaurants under exploitative conditions."

Forlienon A note on the argument about the 'morality' of adblockers

Isn't fixing his browser exactly what curiouscats is doing by blocking flash?

Forlienon My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)

I think your calculation on failing an array rebuild is wrong. Can you show how you got those numbers?

Forlienon What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter

I don't disagree with your point, but Heavy Rain is a pretty out-there example. The game revolves around rescuing a child from a murderer. Though there were realistic aspects to Heavy Rain, the game itself is centered around a very unrealistic core story.