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The author (Katie Arnold) is British. Both names are very normal girl's names in the UK.

They seem like common enough names, what's the issue?

Good luck writing an iOS app in emacs.

(Well, good luck writing one in Xcode, for that matter.)

Kotlin does this, it's great.

Given the context here (a World Cup awarded to _Qatar_ of all places) it's arguably more of a good faith assumption that FIFA is indeed corrupt, because the alternative assumption is that its members are mind-blowingly incompetent, to the point where you'd be assuming they required assisted living programmes and round-the-clock care.

Do you know anyone where that threshold has been reached? Anyone with a family? Given the way inflation is going, I know maybe one person, and they're single with their mortgage paid off.

Honestly, the null safety and constructor initialisation of properties in Kotlin alone make it worth it.

It targeted the front-end, which lots of programmers don't give a shit about.

I'm in the same boat as you. My question is, does this hyperoptimisation of preferences actually work for anyone other than children? I guess Netflix thinks it does.

The first one, sure. But the second only applies to American sports.

So if you make paste match the formatting of the destination not the source, both you and the tweeter are happy. Make a funky shortcut to override this if you want but this should be the default.

Indeed, that's DuckDuckGo's main monetisation strategy right now, and it's working very well for them.

Still miss my old Palm Pre 2 for exactly this reason.

I am a native mobile developer, and I am presuming GP is most definitely not, because I completely agree with you.

I'm surprised how far down I had to scroll before I found a comment like this. I was approached by a Facebook recruiter twice in the last year, both times I gave a polite "not interested", with a list of reasons why.

I've only dabbled in Clojure and REPL-driven development, but is there a way of easily converting a REPL sessions into a suite of tests?

Coming from more of test-driven development background, I found that tinkering in the REPL was similar to what I would usually do with unit tests, but without the ability to easily build up a test suite that would prevent regressions in future.

Fourteen years later, I still think about this. I have three half-written drafts of blog posts about things this essay has inspired me to do.

I think part of the mystique of it is that the authors kind of faded into the background after publishing it. I've never been able to find a follow-up paper from them.

Yes! This is the biggest thing I hate about Slack. It feels like it's trying to make Slack more like email, and the whole reason I use Slack in the first place is to get away from email.

If the developer had asked for a retainer straight off the bat I feel like MS would have just ignored him and started building WinGet earlier. All the AppGet source was right there for them to look at. They wouldn't have had the benefit of Andrew picking his brains one to one, but that probably wasn't 100% necessary anyway.

I like DuckDuckGo, but it's much worse than Google at localisation. It's annoying to have to search, then repeat the search with "UK" on the end to make it realise I'm not interested in buying e.g. building supplies or coffee or beer from US-based businesses.

I get that it has no concept of who I am when I search, but some kind of localisation based on IP address could maybe help?

Also, it feels a little disingenuous to say Google is not a search company, it's an advertising company. DDG's revenue is also built on ads. Is it fair to say they are also not an advertising company, not a search company?

> If these drivers are unhappy they can choose not be drivers

This is oversimplified to a painful degree.

What if it turns out to shorten the illness in 80% of cases but cause liver failure in the other 20%?

Unfortunately the people at the top will do everything they can to stop this.

If they had figured out a way to make Flutter use Kotlin back in 2015 before Android officially adopted it, I think it would have gained much more developer adoption.

I don't think Kotlin is performant enough for Flutter though.

Welcome to Android.

Kotlin has sealed classes which are basically the same as Rust's enums. It also has async / await in the form of coroutines and a decent module system. It also doesn't need manual memory management, which while unsuitable for many applications does remove another potential class of bugs.

Kotlin is amazing for this.

IMO you have this backwards. It's much easier to get a mortgage to buy property in sleepy suburbs, so people can and do buy houses there to live in them, then have to commute to work.

It's almost impossible for most people working in soulful / desirable / economic powerhouse locations to get a mortgage on a property there, so you see lots of wealthy investors take up the properties there and rent-seek to make themselves even richer.

That's before we even mention the children factor.

> In Pijul, for any two patches A and B, either A and B commute, (in other words, A and B can be applied in any order), or A depends on B, or B depends on A.

This isn't exhaustive. What about the case where both patches A and B are worked on independently, and both depend on an original version of the codebase, let's call it P for parent.

A and B both diverge from P and therefore require a merge, or in git, a rebase. Over my years as a developer this scenario has caused approximately 90% of the issues with git. How does Pijul tackle it?

I love Soulseek. I love that it's basically identical to Napster and still works great.