Indeed, can we be choosy about the choice chosen?

feldicus

Technically, saying "Haskell is easier to read than C" is a specious statement because it assumes that it's easier to read universally. I can find even one person for whom that's not true (I happen to be such a person).

Therefore, the statement is misleading, I win, and your children are ugly.

My point was that just saying "Haskell is easier to read than C" is a specious statement. I don't know both languages, but I'm a programmer, and the syntax of Haskell (a language I don't know) is harder for me to figure out than Ruby (another language I don't know).

"Easier to read" is subjective, and generally only applies if the reader has spent a fairly significant amount of time dealing with the syntax. Coming from years of C/C++/C#/Python, I can tell you that Haskell is about as easy to read as a set of VCR instructions written in Japanese and translated to English by a blind Venezuelan with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Unfortunately, that means that people paying more are subsidizing those paying less. The money for those rebate checks has to come from somewhere, and the most likely would be the money paid by others under the same scheme. I don't want people to starve, but I don't think that means the government should mug me at gunpoint and give my money to somebody else.

Taxation is just another way of demanding money with menaces.

Awesome quote. Can't believe I hadn't found this sooner.

So they give you something that they want to read wirelessly, then give you something to keep it from being read wirelessly? Ah, government thought in action.

I think this is the kind of thing RFID was invented for. I had a similar experience after playing with RFID at work.

Wasn't this explained not long after the inclusion of RFID chips in passports announced? I just don't understand how it could have been ignored by the government for this long. I'm not this kind of hacker, but even my brief exposure to RFID at work (for inventory management) made me think that it would make a really awful system for sensitive data.

If it means I need surgery to have four extra fingers attached to my left hand, I'll forgo learning this one.

Let me guess...there's a shortcut for that as well. Let's see...what would "make sense" to someone who had their mind warped by continual emacs usage?

Ah yes...C-x M-x C-f C-! embrace-emacs-religion

Silly me.

Does the feature list include "Shortcuts that make sense to humans who never used the 30-year old keyboards that were around when RMS was hacking on TEX"?

Until I stop seeing Emacs primers that start with advice to start remapping my keyboard, I'll pass.

My guess would be less difficult than first suspected, but fairly laborious.

feldicus

Technically, the article has it backwards. The last reading has the most weight. The point is still perfectly valid, though. I just can't prevent myself from being pedantic about it.

feldicus