Borogove

Our most brilliant scientists have recently discovered that the word "love" has multiple overlapping definitions. Strange but true.

Eich didn't give $1000 to an anti-state-marriage proposition, he gave to an anti-same-sex-marriage proposition.

What other actions does he need to take? Passing prop 8 harmed people.

I tend to disbelieve the Newsweek article because I read it, and it stank.

Untrue. Leigh claims that Satoshi "tacitly" admitted his involvement, in the most ambiguous part of an extremely ambiguous writeup.

I'm white and queer and can assure you that racism and sexism are much more serious problems than homophobia in the US.

A woman yelled at you for holding the door for her? Really? What were you wearing? Had you been drinking that day? How long were you dating her?

Where "the same" is 6.6% less.

As many comments in that thread point out, byte arrays are not strings, and casually conflating or implicitly converting the two is terrible mental hygiene.

Explicit is better than implicit.

If all your code is dealing with binary data, why the heck are you using strings for it? There's a bytes type there for a reason, which doesn't deal with encodings, and you won't accidentally try and treat a blob like a string.

The crazy thing about software is that when business requirements change, you can change it. If they don't need to support multiple currencies today, it's silly for them to put in the effort now.