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It's cheaper to lie to people about a position having a long-term future & getting them on board with a salary than being honest & paying them hourly.

Why Ada Isn't Popular (2014) : Everyone outside the DoD wrote it off as dead in 1998.

> But I would not recommend Clojure as a first Lisp. Its community is very much organized around being a better JVM language

You can say that again. If you don't have a background in Java, it's a lot to swallow.

We're talking about a website that provides commentary on rap music. You can find things far more misogynistic and tasteless than this idiot's manifesto without even trying. How is talking about a mass murderer off limits while lyrics glorifying violence are the site's bread & butter?

Google's been an advertising company since the day they realized they could make money off of search.

Why did the Roman Empire collapse?

What is the Latin for office automation?

Backups?

If you lose the outline of a character's life, just kill them off.

Falsey objects mean "there's no data here" which is why they're falsey. Having an empty list of arguments to a command is the same as having no argument list.

There's nothing about midnight that makes sense for it to behave as Falase.

Front page exposure on HN will probably be enough to get them to sell out their first print run.

Dreamcast had a modem that was supported by very few games. There was an optional Ethernet adapter that's very rare and supported by even fewer.

The ethernet on the PS2 was optional until one of the later hardware releases. Very few games were released using it until after the PS3 had already shipped.

So we all know that everyone is on LinkedIn & every recruiter in the world is spamming us with invites but who the fuck actually uses it & gets any value out of it?

I thought Clojure's biggest problem was barfing giant Java-flavored stacktraces on simple errors?

Google exists to advertise. Academics are woefully underpaid. Who wants to advertise to a bunch of broke intellectuals that are just going to ignore your ads anyways?

Yes, it's free but that doesn't mean it's painless. Going to SP2 and SP3 broke backwards compatibility with some drivers and software. It increased the RAM/CPU requirements for running the OS comfortably. They weren't just harmless stacks of collected bug fixes.