Bzzt, wrong. The last ANSI approved version of C is C99, which includes // as a comment delimiter.

I don't know about that account, but I do know that at my workplace tons of legit copies of windows 7 have started complaining that they are invalid copies. Clearly Microsoft has issues with their authentication procedures.

Not all beliefs are equal. I believe that when I walk out of the room things are still there, while someone else believes scorpions appear and dance in the light. They are not comparable. In fact if you hold the latter you would likely get some medical treatment.

A movement of 4.2 used to be called a tremor, until news organizations such as CNN and the Weather Channel got a hold of them and became earthquakes. FLASH. BREAKING NEWS. CUE GRAPHICS. CUE JINGLE followed by 48 hrs of non stop coverage.

Before that at least one structure had to topple over for a tremor to be called an earthquake.

Python brought a unique mixture of functional and imperative syntax and semantics. That is a unique contribution, regardless if you liked the end result or not.

Indeed, in most of the countries where supporting your kid in university is the law/common practice it is also the law/common practice to take care of your parents when the time comes.

It gets scarier than that: some parents believe it is their duty to support their much loved kids while they study and prepare for life. They even give them a hug when they come home for the holidays!

What is the world coming to? When I was young, kids were given up for adoption a weak after being born. They were raised in an orphanage and believe me, we were better for it.

What's the name of the worst Jeep model produced in the last two decades, a 2007 newly designed car that it was so bad Chrysler considered not releasing at all? Jeep Patriot of course. I kid you not.

and that boys and girls is how American car manufacturers rationalize producing the crap that they produce.

This is not surprising. GM or Ford would have to be one fscked corporation to walk out of a meeting with the mandate "let's make crap cars". Instead they manage to convince that their junk "had to be done this way", even though most other foreign car manufactures have much lower design failure rates.

Exactly. It is a false convenience.

Yes, the GP post is confusing variable declaration and strong type safety. Experience has shown that we want both.

E.g. "variable x is a string", so if by accident the one time I used it, I happen to write "x=3" I want the compiler to complain and not silently infer the type "x is an integer".

Second, we want variable declarations so that if you accidentally write "usrename" instead of "username" the compiler complains.

Swift doesn't require you to give the type during declaration, which is a minor saving at a cost of many headaches. This is the wrong design decision, though I don't think is particularly critical.

Variables do need to be declared, which is a nice improvement over python and one of a few big things holding python back from total dominance (the others are white space, interpreted not compiled and somewhat weak pointer/data structure support).

No water from Arizona reaches the ocean. It is all collected before it gets anywhere close to the shore.

This is nothing but segregation, which is still so common in the USA (though nowadays often self imposed) that even supposedly progressive and enlightened people fail to see how wrong it is.

Many of my supposed feminist friends want to place girls in school ghettos.

I think there is enough evidence to suggest that domestication happened independently in at least three different places: Eurasia, Australia and America. Why are they trying to narrow it to a single place?

I'm not wasting it: judging from the moderation it's clear that OSS people are now even more bent on working for free for people like me. More money in the bank for the likes of us.

Now go back to your OSS project, you are wasting my money.