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What if the pacemaker is the cheating device?

> Henin was placed in handcuffs because police in New Jersey thought the car was stolen. That was because, months earlier, the car had been courtesy towed in West Philly, and she reported it stolen as police advised. Henin followed up with Philadelphia police when she later found her car, but they mistakenly left it in the stolen-vehicle database.

It could be the argument for a sitcom. Not funny in real life when police is pointing a gun at you.

It's a tool for you. Being also a tool is a happy accident.

Short term memory is very important for problem solving. Euler continued to work and publish mathematics after becoming blind

I find it completely unpythonic. Python has become too important to do the right thing, there is money on the table.

Refusing to compile takes the position that the compiler knows more than the developers. Or maybe are the compiler writers thinking they are the ones that know more? Maybe I'm being biased because I could consider using it in my free time and I already have enough bondage at work

Sincerity under payment has to be taken for what it is. I expect and appreciate to be treated nicely when going to a restaurant but I'm under no illusion that it's because I'm going to pay for it, otherwise I doubt all that people would be cooking, serving and cleaning afterwards with a smile in their face while I sit there saying thank you.

I think the problem is libraries implicitly affecting code outside the library. This time has been related to optimization of floating point operations, next time it will be other thing. Why bother having lexically scoped languages if the real behavior is dinamical? Debugging this kind of error is very hard

Engineers are frequently not entirely honest in their CVs, I wouldn't expect too much from the marketing department of a company.

> flooding market with free money called quantitative easing isn’t anymore putting selective pressure on efficiency of company

On the contrary I think that selective pressure is brutal. That's why everyone is trying to predict the future, because everyone knows that whatever they are doing today it's not gonna be valid in 20 years. Companies are constantly reinventing themselves, changing the way they do business. Internet has swallowed whole sectors of the economy and changed even the most traditional ones in what, 20 years?. Nobody would call you crazy if you said that in another twenty years Apple or Google have disappeared or are irrelevant.

Your comment cheers me up, but you are assigning to much blame to individuals.

Everybody notices that companies could function (even better actually) with something like 1/3 or less of their workforce. The other 2/3 are just doing BS work. Why? As with evolution there is really no objective, just some causes with an outcome. One of them is that companies don't know what to do with the money. They have all this people trying to figure out what to do next. Hence the hiring freezes in some companies right now with the economic downturn.

> People are severely underestimating how complicated it is to host a private server

People underestimate consistently how complicated is to build reliable things, hardware or software. There is a world between "it works for me" and "it works for all"

> Should I Switch From Turbo Pascal to Turbo Modula-2?

The million dollar question.

More seriously, I love Pascal and similar. My first two books were Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Pascal) and Algorithms and Data Structures (Modula 2), both by Nicklaus Wirth.

I was expecting something about (paper) page grammage. I suppose disambiguating by adding _web_ page is out of the question given the audience.