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Where did "e" get declared at? It just seems to leap magically into existence.

They are a step backward. They try to make a complicated thing look simple. That is always a mistake.

I like the verbosity of anon classes, they make sense. They look right in the debugger. Lambdas do not look clear they look like vodoo, I very much dislike them and wish they'd never been introduced.

Eclipse's debugger can be configured to show a refined output. The controls are in the upper right in the Debug Perspective. Programmers who make applications are not programmers who write IDE's. If I'd noticed this I don't know if I'd recognized it or dug into it more to understand it but a snarky comment like the one I replied to is not appropriate or helpful.

Why are there so many Haskell articles on HN? It seems like nearly every day there's one or more Haskell articles yet in the real world I've run into one guy in decades that even knew it.

It's reassuring of the human condition that these two stick with it through thick and thin. Charting a course to success even when the medical expert(s) said otherwise.

>> But the idea that this was a thunderbolt of inspiration that hit notch with the best idea ever that then changed the world is just fantasy.

It was a series of thunderbolts and Notch and the whole Mojang gang are freaking geniuses in my opinion.

Yep that's what I was thinking, "Thirty-five blocks of Broadway were destroyed".

Truly amazing! I wonder what would happen to a large city like that if in a blackout for 3 days.

Actually the real problem is people who have your attitude about the problem.

I've been playing with WebGL demos on Ubuntu for years, first Chrome then Firefox. It isn't new. You might also be impressed to find out that Steam is on Linux now too.