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For example, in Swift, if you declare a function to throw an exception, then by God every call to that function, all the way up the stack, must be adorned with a do-try block, or a try!, or a try?

I agree with him on this point. Sounds similar to how it’s in Java, and I hate it. I always wrap my exceptions in a RuntimeExceptions because of this.

I disagree with him the rest of the post. The job of the programmer is to communicate the intent of the program. Both for others and for yourself. The language provides the tools to do so. If a value is intended to be nullable, then I would like to communicate this intent. I think it’s good when a language provides this tool.

Tests don’t communicate the intent of the code. Tests can’t perfectly validate all the possible edge cases of the system either.

He realized he couldn’t polish a turd.

Better than sex

• the most genius comedian of all time

Drag queens in the opening ceremony

Well, that as well, but it’s an also bit tricky to safely check if a number is even because JavaScript uses floats for numbers.

Does this narrow it down better? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

The popularity of these two packages shows that something is very wrong with JavaScript.

Nokia. They were at the top before iPhone. They couldn’t catch up with smart phones at all.

I believe Intel will be another potential example, but we’ll see about that.

I don’t think the intent is to maintain the exact original experience forever and after. It’s to ensure it’s possible to play the game at all even if the developer shuts down their servers.

It’s becoming more and more common that games stop functioning completely when the developers no longer want to support the game anymore - even games that are perfectly playable single player.

There are private servers in WoW already.

Maybe not give out all hosting software, but give the possibility to connect to community hosted servers.

Red carton is chosen because that’s how it’s commonly depicted in cartoon images.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=french+fries+cartoon&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

Most programming doesn’t need math or algorithms. Sometimes it’s needed. For example, 3D programming involves lots of mathematical geometry. It’s difficult to solve these problems without mathematical knowledge.

Maths and algorithms are useful tools to make certain problems easier to make sense of.

Unicode Consortium decide which emoji should be included. It’s up to each vendor themselves to come up with how they should look like. I don’t think Unicode Consortium explicitly state it must look like McDonald’s fries.

It’s so good it got not only one, but two standard libraries.

Stack overflow intensifies

It's entirely too vague on what the problem is

How is it vague? If I buy a game, it should be playable for all eternity. Just like how I can pop in Super Mario on NES and play it just like how it was in the 80s.

Or how I can still play Half Life deathmatch more than 25 years after its release.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Faulty_Comparison

The existence of other emoji can’t justify the inclusion of a new emoji. Those emojis are old, and it’s unlikely they would’ve been approved under Unicode’s current guidelines.

The logo and name is the brand. How do you visually represent a specific payment protocol without using its logo? There’s no emoji for HTTP or TCP either.

The problem with having cryptocurrency as emoji is agreeing on the specification how it should be drawn, and also make it different enough from already existing emojis such as coin 🪙. It is not exactly a tangible thing.

It probably falls under faulty comparison:

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Faulty_Comparison

Their guidelines change, and it’s possible these emoji were added with old guidelines. They can’t remove old emoji, which means specific buildings like Tokyo Tower🗼is an emoji, even if they prohibit the addition of specific buildings nowadays.