LordN00b

This article has all the qualities of a first year degree takedown.

Interrogative opening sentence, desperate latching on to Historical precedent(vis a vi Germany and China, use of the word Bromide and or idolatory and conflating Government policies and political movements by dint of shared temporal space.

The economist is broad magazine, the book was written about the editorial the leaders, and the review is an attack of convserative led liberal thinking.

In my expert opinion (of nothing), this article is yucky.

I have a Surface go, and I use to write scratch ideas in F#/C# Typescript in visual stuidio code. I then punt them via git to my main dev box later. It's a really nice way of keeping ideas flowing with out letting them go flat, or forgetting about them. You will need to purchase a keyboard (Doesn't have to be a microsoft one), but not a stylus. Battery life is about 6 hours for me. It's small, fits under myarm, in my bag. I can code on it, look up recipies on it, messaging, Spotify etc.

I like compact devices, I miss 11" form factor netbooks Samsung NP netbooks, great for sticking in my bag and just using/code with.

It does include Richard Pryor in the writing credits. (I believe the opening 'Sing us a work song..' is all his, but I can't find a reference.) He was meant to be starring as the Sheriff but couldn't get bonded.

+ All the votes for the DX. Apart from having to replace the battery (and having the ability to do so.), it has been the most trouble free electronic device I have ever owned. I love the screen size, and I can read textbooks, and code at the same time etc. It has niggles (PDF viewing being a bete noire), but it's reliable, coupled with Calibre I can read anything, it hsa handled my lazy attitdue to device care admirably.

As long as they fix the blasted runtime. Azure Functions has it's own dll loader, and other complexities that means it doesn't place nice with .net or the larger ecosystem. Currently it does not support .net 3, and I can't even use the most recent version of System.Data.SqlClient. I like functions it was a good move, but the 'not-quite-.net' keeps getting in the way.

Are you sure? His argument is one simple paragraph:

  The `Car extends Vehicle` or `Duck extends Bird` type of tutorial
  obscures more than it illuminates.  In good OO programming, we don’t
  make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our inner Linnaeus. We make
  class hierarchies in order to simplify the code by allowing different
  parts of it to be changed independently of each other, and to
  eliminate duplication (which comes to the same thing). Without any
  context as to what the code needs to accomplish, you can’t make a
  judgment about whether a particular design decision is good or bad.

The first half is an excellent book, buuuuut becareful as you get into the second half, it really becomes a book pimping his own library.

I miss ctrl-g as go to line. Is it possible to remap Firefox keyboard commands?

Everyone involved in the "discovery" of the conspiracy (Which was random words applied to Rosicrucians dogma?), and those who claimed that the conspiracy really did unravel the secrets of the grail, everyone (except the girlfriend, but including the protagonist) were idiots. Skepticism, rational thought, and a little application of evidence should have stopped the process in it's tracked. They all got carried away, and the lies, begat lies, that became 'a truth'. Much like fake news of today etc. Another novel of his Baudolino comes at this from a different angle, everything the protagonist says is a lie (unreliable narrator plus), yet it all comes true. I love a good Eco conversation, and all the wonderful ways you can pull it apart.

Well known Grump and British Comic Stewart Lee uses the exact painting to make a similar point about people (in a much more pointed manner). [Spoilers] At the end of his latest show(Called Content Provider), he stands on the literal detritus of his own content, and re-creates that painting. When he turns back to the audience, you realise, his walking cane is a selfie stick, and he takes a shot.