LeonRobrotsky

Sorry- my remark wasn't intended as a shill accusation, but re-reading it now, I see it.

It was tongue-in-cheek, I enjoyed the positivity in your original comment.

> is this a joke?

No, just written by Zed Shaw. Honest mistake though.

Making vague but supportive comments on HN.

> You just have to be okay with doing things that basically add no value to anything.

So, most silicon valley startups?

I've been very thankful that I couldn't navigate some websites drunk in the past.

For anyone else that's curious, cement is mixed with water and some sort of aggregate to make concrete.

You appear to be correct- my remark was based on what I guess is out of date experience.

> Or maybe I've just been unlucky/incompetent.

Every lint extension I've seen seems to drag a full install of whatever the popular implementation of the language is.

Personal projects, coursework in school.

I also have zero doubt that people have been using it for professional purposes in violation of the license.

To an extent, having the source available is a good solution.

I thought refining of oil was mostly separating the different hydrocarbons- or can gasoline be used to make plastic?

> then this analogy might be slightly more relevant

Agreed, football is worse: we actively encourage and reward modern day gladiatorial combat such that otherwise brilliant people feel the need to participate. NFL players publishing papers and having successful academic careers afterwards are not the norm.

Heroin destroys lives, dragging not just the users, but those around them down. Similar to TBI.

M-F I take one 200mg tablet of caffeine in the morning.

I also quit getting blackout drunk 4-5 nights a week.

> People seem less annoyed by that though

Probably because Shakespeare was white.

I remember having very heated debates about using Option Explicit and the use of Variant in assorted AIM programming chat rooms.

Fun times.

> Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild

No, but at least I can try and fix any bugs I come across instead of hoping MS takes my complaint seriously.

> Is that really that unusual?

In the US, yes. Or, at the very least, at my high school.

The other classes had weekly vocab quizes and grammar tests, with English instruction, whereas we learned German... in German.

> teach them additional languages when they're teenagers, instead of having done the bulk of the work when they were babies

My (semi-related) reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226046

My instructor chose to go full immersion, basically what children are subjected to. The other instructors took the grammar/vocab workbook route.

> Given the right environment, the brain seems to adapt.

In high school, I had a German immigrant, fresh out of college as an instructor. The moment one stepped into that classroom to the moment one stepped out, nothing but German.

Hell, it didn't stop there. If you tried to talk to him at all, in or out of the classroom, he wouldn't acknowledge you unless you spoke to him in German, and he would only speak German to you.

Strangely enough, the German students were the only ones capable of holding conversation in a foreign language.

I graduated in 2008, haven't 'used' German in 7 years, but I still find myself thinking in German every once in a while.

Immersion (even for ~50min, 5 days a week) is easily the best way to learn. I don't know why anyone wastes their time with anything else.

EDIT: Hah, I just remembered how he never cared that we talked to each other during class about whatever, just that it was in German, not English.

Just look on AbeBooks:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...

Such as?

Nazis had state sponsored scientific research and a national healthcare system (with certain, obvious exclusions).

It just seems nonsensically reductive to go 'the nazis did it! therefore its bad!'

This is a fairly standard 6th grade essay.