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.

Just like with IMDB, MySQL and Red Hat Linux, I love it when people give away their labor for free so that people like me can become millionaires when we package and sell their work.

Now if I only could find a way to launch an open source gardening movement so that people would mow my 40 acre mansion lawn for free...

see ya suckers!

A. Capitalist

I have a dual core i7 2.8Ghz laptop with 8Gb of RAM with 2x256 SSD in Raid 0 configuration. Every app runs blazingly fast... except the new Google Maps, which slows the computer down to a crawl. I just ran a set of comparisons and the "new and improved" google maps load times were 3-5x slower than the old google maps.

Moreover, I have yet to find a useful feature in the new maps that is not present in the old version.

This boys and girls is how companies come to be functional retards: anyone can tell the old version is better and it is just a switch of a button away from coming back, but internal politics and committees stop this from happening... as if this wasn't enough, now the company doubles down and makes an even stupider decision: removing the previous, faster and superior version.

This phenomena has been studied by Organizational Management types. Decisions taken by committees often match those taken by a person with an 80 IQ level. In this case, that number would be generous.

Yeah, like Chicago.... oh wait!

Windows 10 was codenamed after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, so it follows that Redstone likely comes from a computer game. I wonder which one...

This pearl stands all on its own. There's nothing one needs to add to it.

Libertarianism as expressed by John Galt leads to anarchy, like in the earhly paradises of Haiti and Somalia.

Libertarianism sprinkled with a dose of reality is liberalism (laissez faire) in the true sense of the world.

True liberalism tries in as much as possible to get the state out of the way as much as possible, but keep it firmly in place where it belongs: (1) education, (2) services best provided as compulsory insurance (defense, policing, fire department, infrastructure, health, unemployment insurance, retirement pools) and (3) overall regulation of economic activity to prevent abuses.

You are not refuting anything I wrote. You are grasping at straws after someone set a very specific mark and your side failed it. So you go around digging for excuses to save your side, rather than admitting that if that's the mark for totalitarianism then Bush Jr. takes the prize.

When you are in a hole the first step is to stop digging.

Except the many that do, like Canada, Germany and Switzerland.

Funny how that never comes up when republicans are gushing about Reaganomics all of which took place under a democrat controlled congress.

Again, you find that the data doesn't match your preconceptions and all you do is search for excuses to try to make it go away.

He set the bar for totalitarianism, Bush Jr. was the one who failed.

Everything else is after the fact rationalizations because you didn't like the outcome.