You don't bring swimwear into a sauna. If she isn't comfortable being nude there are multiple other ways to refresh yourself, in the pool, showers or wherever. Nobody forced her into the sauna in the first place.

I disagree. "Lisp syntax" is almost a misnomer, as there's so little of it. Pretty much the only thing you're guaranteed is that () are for grouping, and spaces are separators (and even that is not necessarily true in CL). Everything beyond that is up to the DSL in question, and people can and do get overly "creative" with the syntax such that it's not simple or obvious to read at all.

Jony Ive, who is really a 12 year old girl, has convinced all the hipsters that 1960 is cool, retro is in, and flat, neon colors are the ebst thing in the world. And since hipsters buy everything for 3-10x what it's actually worth for the aesthetic, everyone wants to sell to them.

Yes. Nobody who worked in the Manhattan Project had any reservations whatsoever about building the atomic bomb, right?

Experts work in fields they're not 100% comfortable with all the time. The actual physicists that worked on the bomb understood exactly what the dangers were. The people looking at it from the outside are the ones coming up with the bogus dangers. You hear things like, "the scientists in the Manhattan project were so irresponsible they thought the first bomb test could ignite the atmosphere, but went ahead with it anyway." No, the scientists working on it thought of that possibility, performed calculations the definitely proved it wasn't anywhere near a possibility and then moved on with it. People outside the field are the ones that go, "The LHC could create a black hole that will destroy us all!" The scientists working on know the Earth is struck with more powerful cosmic rays than the LHC can produce regularly, so there's no danger.

Which is a 100% true statement. They're very smart people, but they don't know what they're talking about in regards to AI research, and are coming up with bogus threats that most AI experts agree aren't actually a possibility.

so was Nokia. Oulu, with its once pride big economy is now in tatters.

Java anon classes aren't quite the same because of the lack of "var" or similar - so you can implement interface members or override base class members, but you cannot introduce new members that can then be referenced outside of that object.

OTOH, C# anon classes don't support base types...

I'm not necessarily saying that begin..end is better, just that it's an obvious alternative. Personally, I don't mind {}, though I think that it's really redundant, and the proper way is to treat everything as an expression, in which case semicolon becomes a sequence operator (i.e. "a;b" means "evaluate a, then throw the result away and evaluate b" - like comma in C), and you just use parens to group things where needed.

If you read my post, you'll see that it specifically calls out "import static", and why it's not really good enough.

Scala's problem, I think, is not that it has operator overloading, but that the conventions around the language encourage its use for DSLs. C++ also has this problem, but to a significantly smaller degree, and C# doesn't have it at all.

And how is this different from setX?

Man requests video footage via FOIA, earns job categorizing and sanitizing video footage to allow release to public in compliance with both FOIA and privacy laws. System ends up better off and expects to work in a transparent manner.

Move along...

You win one internet.

This sounds more like the work of a master villain than regular global warming!

Well, I used to think that too. In old times I'd agree 100% with you. I'm not gonna defend VB6, that was just a joke. But nowadays, javascript can run a lot faster than many compiled languages. You see things like Node.js which show that javascript engines have been insanely optimized, largely due to the languages (over)use on the internet. On my other post, I mentioned that Google made a demo using Dart (which is just a language which transcompiles to javascript, like CoffeeScript or TypeScript), rendering entire frames in 1.2ms. I am as much as baffled as you, but Google has found it easier to have low latency APIs for well-written JavaScript than with some Dalvik optimization.
My good advice is: it's hard for people with a compiled language background, including me, to accept that, but JS is very good for many things which we couldn't dream of 5 years ago, encroaching even C territory.

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There's nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't really apply to everyone. And the cost of data security is dimissively low. For the typical Android handset, the simple blow of a hammer instead of trying to recover less than $100 on ebay or craigslist will guarantee security of your old data. Heck, that $100 is less than the differential between an android handset and an equivalent iOS device in most cases.