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Do you have higher trust towards the Durov brothers and their UK/UAE company ? Because it does all that with them.

You are aproaching this from the mindset of the code author, but consider a new contributor to a project reading for the first time, with positional destructuring

foreach(var (f, l) in enumerationOfPersons) { ... }

tells him absolutely nothing about what's going or even that there are names involved

foreach(var (firstName, lastName) in enumerationOfPersons) { ... }

is better but doesn't give him an object to inspect to see where they come from and what else is available.

Positional records are a terrible idea, one of the best things about C# is readability

var (f, l) = person;

is so much worse than

var (f, l) = (person.FirstName, person.LastName);

I don't want to have to refer to documentation or class implementation to understand what a destructuring expression does.

First, nominal is assumed because 'structural typing' was not a thing in any major language when the Liskov substitution principle was coined.

Second, this is independent of structural vs nominal typing - implementation of an interface can be thought of as inheritance of a class whose methods all have noop implementations, and in fact this is (almost) how it's done in languages that don't have interfaces like C++

They were almost certainly not clearing $1k a day, the company who contracted them was.

Interfaces are inheritance as far as OOP design principles are concerned.

This is a periodic reminder that Signal's non-optional contact discovery feature stands directly against their central value proposition and should cause everyone to doubt their alignment.

There is no E2E encryption in Telegram for any reasonable definition of the term.

Telegram is not a secure messenger, it offers the same level of non-security as skype or fb messenger - not even that of watsapp.

That's a pretty high claim, shouldn't it be possible to demonstrate this effect on blindfolded sighted people ?

Otoh facilities like Oak Ridge can be expected to be conservative in their tech, otoh sed and awk should be declared as a threat to national security.

I theorize nothing is truly tomato. There are just atoms, the space between them and forces that act on them.

No they may not well be.

IIT is pure sophistry - some years ago Scott Aaronson showed that using their definition of potential for consciousness electronic devices employing certain kinds of algebraic error-correction codes have it - meant as a reductio-ad-absurdum of IIT, apparently its promoters have decided to try and own the absurdity.

In other news - nautil.us is an utter garbage chute of an outlet, the new-science-journalism equivalent of British tabloids and I fully expect them to publish a psuedoscientific apologia for astrology or an evolutionary theory supporting the existence of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster - post-Darwinnian cryptozoology anyone ?

Is there a sample questionnaire online ? What about someone using Wolfram Alpha etc. ?

No the secret is to have a caste of workers with low expectations, lack of better opportunities, and high work ethics - grounding it in religion and making it a 'mission' instead of a job helps.

I'm more curious how well the 'we made a whole new batch of tests under emergency time pressures so that students won't benefit from googling' claim holds up, I mean google certainly did its part here during the last decade by becoming less and less useful for finding answers to non SEOed questions and yet...

I wish, instead they are just not intended to be taken literally.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that a software engineer developing safety-critical firmware for embedded medical systems does not need to know anything about Apache Kafka. Or a game developer. Or a web frontend developer. Given the title it's surprising how many software engineers can in fact go through life and career without ever knowing anything about Apache Kafka.

Cofeescript will always be remembered as peak code hipsterdom.

SO quality participation is in decline as it transformed itself into yet another online shredder of good will and "great developers" realize they're being exploited, cue content like this to try and goad them back.

Like everything that Mozilla did for the last decade or so this is far more likely to produce false choices than actual alternatives.

> That should be "offering" singular, not "offerings" plural.

Why ? An ecosystem consists of multiple offerings and there are also multiple commercial ecosystems.

> And it's totally feasible to produce a superior ecosystem. The hard part is absorbing years of financial loss while building the new ecosystem from the ground up while it isn't compatible with the existing proprietary system.

Being able to finance something is an inherent part of its feasibility.

Easy, just create a software ecosystem that is superior to or at least on-par with the commercial offerings (being open source is not by itself valuable for the users), then grow a generation of non-technical users into that ecosystem

The statement is in the language of the agreement as reported: "Where it is technologically and financially possible, the city will put emphasis on open standards and free open-source licensed software,"

Which in practice binds absolutely no one to absolutely anything.

This is a bluff that almost every government and municipality with huge contracts with MS does whenever they come up for renewal as part of their negotiations, nobody in MS is impressed.

In other news: 2020 is not the year of the linux desktop.

Some people for the last decade: wouldn't it be great if node had a comprehensive, idiomatically coherent, thoroughly typed standard library ? Look, typescript is right here !

No-one, at all, for the love of jeebus: Do another node-like thing, but make it in rust on top of C++ (or is the other way around ?), somewhat similar but generally incompatible, have a whole different set of APIs, a bunch of new tools and yet another package/module system.

"Virtualized micropolygon geometry" sounds like a laundry detergent ad.

Good news ! You don't have to be - just allow your work IT a full control of your home network and they'll have it secured to corporate standards !

A blurred distinction between the home and the workplace could also have legal implications for side projects, 'everything you make during employment period belongs to us' clauses can sometimes be punched through or voided but it's harder to do if you can't show a clear work time and resources vs. personal time and resources boundary.

After trying to make tech workers spend as much time as possible at the workplace with expensive perks became frowned upon - a much cheaper alternative is to have work spend as much time as possible at employee's home.