skeezyjefferson

> because of technical limitations that inhibit iCloud competitors or any compatible storage solution.

ah thats not quite true is it now?

lined his own pockets carving out companies and making people unemployed. that americans worship a man who never worked a day in his life is telling

medals. they all like a medal.

it was constant if it could have been redefined, by the basic definition of what constant means. so no, not constant, but constants

the whole "tell me your x without telling me your x" is tedious. its not half as witty as it feels

...? because you have to deal with them? as in theyre paying you to write software. so now what? the idea falls apart when it meets reality

what do you think the cambrian explosion was

this covers only the most technical fields that already specify things rigorously. most people arent technical enough to even understand what a formal spec is, so how do you deal with them? insist they learn formal methods?

emacs, great if you dont mind coding it all yourself, in which case you could have coded an application directly for what you need, instead of it being a plugin to a text editor. but I guess its cool to use, so theres that intangible piece of nubbins to hold onto at least

> The next best thing I love about Emacs is that I can do anything conceivable with code.

you already could though, no? emacs didnt allow you to execute lisp for the first time

funny, did you come up with that one yourself?

I argue in your example there are 6 constants, not 1 constant with 6 different values, though this could be semantics ie we could both be right in some way

compiler flags with line and column number seems like the easiest way

it would be like every time a business gets broken into you berate them for their lack of physical security. nobody does it because that would be inane, and what you are doing is a straight analog to it

but we already had the word variable for values that can change. on both counts it seems redundant

> As in - it's not very "constant" if you keep re-making it in your loop, right?

you cant change a constant though

> In your sample there really is no benefit to using the "is" operator over just checking for null

Microsoft give the same example though. I understand what hes saying, theres conceptual overlap between is and ==. Many ways to do the same thing.

Why couldnt it just be...

if (obj == string s) { ... }

> If you want a language where const is the default and mutable is a keyword

whats the difference between const and mutable?

whats the difference between immutable and constant, which has been in use far longer? why are you calling it mutable?

> Extending Visual Studio in more than the ways it has already provided....It means freedom.

if youre able to edit the source code of a program, youre probably a programmer. you already had the freedom. and that can be done with git and the offline source code. its not freedom its convenience if anything

> Go seek some professional help maybe, it really hurts to see someone being so miserable.

theres a bit of the pot calling the kettle black there

> It seems you're missing the point - that example is 'reductio ad absurdum' - a showcase of the logical extreme of capabilities, not an illustration of concrete practicality.

such as?

>I can edit the URL of any tab in my browser directly from my editor

i give up.

> Changing individual human behavior to be more present and more self-aware

to what though? Id argue people prefer going on a website for something to do than dealing with the sad reality that is modern life. Dont blame a UI designer because your lifes empty

thats not true though is it. youre talking about a UI designer being some king of evil nazi... get real

> I don't use addictive social media on my phone and when I receive notification, my phone makes a sound, it vibrates and yet I don't feel urged to look at it.

the hysterical mob has decided it is literal crack rocks and EVERYONE ELSE cannot be trusted to not get hopelessly addicted to it, however they can use social media to of course decry its evils

> We have the equivalent of unlimited crack in everyone’s pocket 24/7

i think you might be slightly overreacting there bud. and smartphones dont connect to a different internet, youre on social media right now.

> I can start a fresh new instance of plain, vanilla, clean-slate instance of Emacs; then open a scratch buffer and piece-by-piece rebuild my entire configuration, consisting of a dozen thousand lines of customizations; install third-party packages that bring hundreds of thousands of their own code;

we're here to edit text though, I thought? It sounds clever but it might be clever for clevers sake sometimes.

> AFAIK, actual case outcome just hinges on details about "nonpublic data" and similar.

that sounds like insider trading. price fixing would need not involve nonpublic information (beyond the actual conspiracy to fix the prices as it helps to keep that part secret normally)

> For instance there is absolutely no need to keep those documents on the live server for applicants once they have been used for their intended purpose. Blast radius reduction and all that.

I hate this kind of post-hoc finger pointing people do after security breaches. There are other concerns in life beyond security - youre naive to think differently. Is your house secure or could somebody break past your protections? Have you harmed your defensive posture with negligence of security? Do you even care?

> Non-Emacs folk often don't see the "actual use cases" because their minds operate on a different plane.

youve just listed a bunch of scripts launched from emacs. with your logic, you can take the lisp interpreter out of emacs, stick it into say mspaint, and have an equally powerful program.