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The lower the standard of your team, the more you will appreciate idiomatic code. I don't work in SV, blue chips, or anywhere that could use Scala. A couple of us at my last place had a hard time moving the team from Source Safe to SVN, Git was out of the question. "What's the point of commit messages if you only commit every three months?" - not kidding, not a junior. Lines thousands of characters long, literally. I saw a pattern once. Once. CIO was one of these copy/paste VB devs, common in London, an unfair generalisation, but necessary as a warning sign. Some people become developers without any interest in development, completely oblivious to *nix/open source world, simply as a job, 9 - 5, and might have flipped a coin between development and accountancy. Some places don't give a shit about software development, or the idea of engineering - "just get it done!". Resharper, fxcop? Yeah, right. Degrees don't all teach compiler design, some just Java OO and a bit of Glassfish. If Go replaced C# in all of these arbitrary SMEs there would be far fewer WTFs. But people would struggle without Visual Studio debugging and a big run button. I'm being harsh, and seriously, not suggesting anything about MS devs, who include the world's best as well as the world's worst, but I find people on this site are often, to their fortune, oblivious to what working in the 99% can be like (the figurative 99%). Long live idioms, gofmt, golint.

If you don't share your cookies, we will revolt and take your cookies, and everything else you have while we're at it.

"larger species likely took advantage of being able to move faster, burrow better in sediment, or eat larger prey" -- larger species burrow?

Is this sort of thing more tolerated in China where people are used to having explicit network interference, eg great firewall?

"..representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning... consciousness is some sort of sophisticated, elegant computation ..." -- But would it love?

In the UK it seems that politicians are guilty participants in the world of child pornography.

Yes, that London cost of living is way off.

I was thinking this comment sounds a bit alarmist and paranoid, and Alex Jones came to mind. Lo and behold, you mentioned von Mises. Racism and fascism are not equivalent to the holocaust. Even apartheid era South Africa was not equivalent to the holocaust. There are many degrees of shit between happy and holocaust.

Looking up "yaan" - Hindi for vehicle.

That presumably also explains why this post has rapidly vanished off the front page, unlike the cats in boxes story. I know, someone will tell me it's algorithmic.

Indiscriminate down votes have to be met with indiscriminate up votes. What a daft situation.

Edit: Ah! That also explains why explanatory comments aren't required for down votes - preferential control. I didn't realise how rigged this is.

I meant what is the reason, but the comment history does have a lot of down votes. I'd search through them for a reason, but that could a while.

Agreed. "all the time" - is there a history behind that?