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My favorite features du jour are missing, generics on value types and structs.

What about a northwestern European model ? Equality through high taxes.

I would guess they are searching for a more egalitarian society, looking at the specific images they but on the bills.

Compiletime enforcement that a reference isn't null in a language like java is very powerfull, more useful then c++ const in my opinion.

To me it seems the magic is in getting the blur kernel in the first place, how do you get that ?

So I'm lucky to have an ISP that has a zero evil score ? Or is that something i can expect normally.

There is a YC startup in there somewhere :) Kickstarter for bugfix contributions.

As a programmer I find this offensive, we work all day trying to make software good (enough). As I see it the problem is with users, they think they should get programs, like firefox, for free. Most programs you use on a daily basis are now larger than anything a single person can build in a lifetime, and it should be free ? No business constraints and lack of money is what is keeping software down. Nobody is paying anyone to 'reinvent the wheel' to be better.

I'd count the unittest code too, it needs to be maintained too.

Inversely I have had experiences with maintenance coders going like mercenaries into code i wrote and without respect for architecture or future extensions making changes because they didn't understand the code and we're not interested in the concepts behind it.

Maybe the article has been changed but it indeed says that it most likely not about cost but about pushing a 'premium' dns service.

Reddit is now a tree with only one level of nesting. What would help is making the subreddits a graph, and not have all the subreddits trunk in the frontpage.

It might be because how it is communicated, where an uncertainty is communicated as a chance.

Who offers a vocational education at an university level? Not everybody who is smart wants to be an academic.

It is often not possible for the rewritter to change all the uses of the old system.

Rewriting might still be faster then understanding an existing implementation.

Loop-and-a-half is a very common and useful pattern, I don't see anything wrong with the second code snippet.

I wouldn't want them to sell their soil to more powerful nations, sounds like a recipe for war.

For me it was a big case of Not Invented Here syndrome that caused me to make my own compilers and languages. It is a great way to learn deep stuff about how languages work, and helps me debug issues that others can't fix.

Nonnullable (static) class fields and constructors don't mix however, which is why you don't see it as a language addition so far.

Nonnullable local variables and function parameters however could easily work within the current c# language.

Exhausting ports or generating a lot of TIME_WAIT states would also cause similar problems. How to protect against those ?

Depends on how you define 'High-Frequency Trading'

I get a 'Not available in your country' error for that video.

I believe it is because his support for Formal Methods.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1130.PDF

I find it hard to believe in the way Dijkstra seems to want to develop software. To me he seems to believe in the existence of faultless, consistent and complete specifications. I don't believe that the specifications and requirements of sufficiently complex software can have any of these qualities in real life, in part because of the humans that interface with the systems.

What if this is caused by inflation. Meaning that 1$ per day is not comparable between years.

Try to build the simplest, crappiest thing you can think of. Leave perfectionism at work.

Sounds not all that different from the solution in the article, changing to a trusted currency. The basis of the trust is the largest diff.

Free plans do work as a way to get a critical mass it seems.

It is getting harder and harder to find 4:3 monitors, so for me it's not my first choice that i now have a 1920x1080 as main screen. (I start drooling thinking of a 1920x1440 screen)