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Re: Star Trek Just Revealed Surprise New Series Unlike Anything in Franchise History

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:46:43 -0000

AAdult Star Trek is different from (most) other sci fi shows because it is cerebral. But kids Star Trek? What will make it special?

Re: Lines of code: the best technique for identifying developers to cut

Simon Hawkin — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:35:26 -0000

Has literally become the shibboleth...

Re: Lines of code: the best technique for identifying developers to cut

Simon Hawkin — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:25:29 -0000

LoC is not a good measure of any meaningful aspects of a programmer's performance. Every software engineer knows it, every manager knows it, it has been established and accepted by the industry for decades now. But it is easy to measure, and so easy to use as a tool to control and govern over people.

That's what it is, in the end, and nothing else.

Re: SOMEONE NEEDS TO PHOTOSHOP HIM ON AN IMAGE OF LOUIS XVI. NO. NOT THE XIV. I CHOOSE MY REFERENCES A…

Simon Hawkin — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:35:44 -0000

Why "d*mn", why not the full spelling? Who is censoring you?

Re: Summary of Rust vs Go

Simon Hawkin — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:17:19 -0000

A possible typo: 5th paragraph from the bottom, "Go is faster" likely means "Go is faster to learn", and in general faster in terms of the developer's time. Not the execution time.

Thank you for the comparison!

Re: 2002 FLASHBACK: MARK STEYN ON the triumph of American values: Unlike those on the earlier …

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:07:50 -0000

So it's a matter of belief now.

Re: 2002 FLASHBACK: MARK STEYN ON the triumph of American values: Unlike those on the earlier …

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:06:14 -0000

"If George W. Bush had been a better, braver, man"- yes, but we do not seem to have a system that helps such better people up the political ladder. We have so many politicians but so few statesmen.

Re: Map and Set

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:10:49 -0000

Regarding https://javascript.info/map-set#object-fromentries-object-from-map -- do not forget to mention what happens if we are trying to create an object from a map that has two different keys which, however, map into the same name, so there is a conflict.

Re: The Two Faces of Ronald Reagan

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:04:01 -0000

With the hindsight we can see Reagan was mostly right about the foreign affairs. Being a hawk was indeed realistic in that situation.

Re: FIGHT THE POWER: …

Simon Hawkin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:38:33 -0000

"Echo of Lenin" in No man, no fear? It is usually attributed to Stalin. No big difference though.

Re: Pearl-Clutching Bookstore Employee Frets Over Selling 'Hillbilly Elegy' to Customers

Simon Hawkin — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:22:25 -0000

Which store, by the way? I'd like to visit.

Re: James Comey and Loretta Lynch Hold the Whole Country in Their Hands

Simon Hawkin — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:08:19 -0000

Question: "What would be the result? Wide-scale civil disobedience? A taxpayer rebellion? Worse?"

Answer: there will be no result. Nothing at all. She would continue as is.

Re: Bernie Sanders' Anti-Foreign Crankery | Foundation for Economic Education

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:12:03 -0000

Human cost is one thing, but if the teeth counting argument is no argument at all.

Re: Source Code Control with Git and Mercurial -- Visual Studio Magazine

Simon Hawkin — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:03:13 -0000

TortoiseGit is also available, and it provides a well tested GUI front-end which benefits from experience gained by TortoiseHg and TortoiseSvn users.

Re: The Once Great City of Havana

Simon Hawkin — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:09:29 -0000

Michael, thank you!

Re: Insults fly in U.S.-Israel showdown

Simon Hawkin — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:23:15 -0000

Or maybe it's just the politics that people find disgusting.

Re: An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong

Simon Hawkin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:49:34 -0000

Well, for example, one could preprocess it into a hashmap, if it needs to be done repeatedly.

Re: My Pacific Crest Trail Moleskine Journals

Simon Hawkin — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:50:34 -0000

This is America that I love and the Americans that I love.

(Came here from Hacker's News,https://news.ycombinator.co...

Re: Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters | Robohub

Simon Hawkin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:37:57 -0000

Impressive. Thank you!

Re: 8 Museums that are Hidden World-Class Gems

Simon Hawkin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:43:57 -0000

Peabody-Essex museum in Salem is a local gem, too.

Re: The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz - David de Sola - The Atlantic

Simon Hawkin — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:22:07 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Software development final exam: Part 1

Simon Hawkin — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:13:34 -0000

While I agree (with many comments here and on Hacker News) that this should more properly be called "Computer Science" than "Software Development" I disagree (with some comments) that it is irrelevant to SD. CS is to SD what math is to physics: when you work in physics you need to understand theory, and theoretical physics is built on a solid mathematical background. Similarly, software development is built on a solid computer science background.

Re: Hey, Brother, Can You Spare a Hubble? DOD: Sure! Have Two

Simon Hawkin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:10:47 -0000

By my logic, government (and politics in general) is an art of compromise.

Re: It's Official: Western Europeans Have More Cars Per Person Than Americans

Simon Hawkin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:07:09 -0000

This article and the comment threads are so laughable! I immensely enjoyed reading them. Rarely is the ineptness of the media class so glaringly obvious.

Re: Why We Need the First Amendment

Simon Hawkin — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:02:11 -0000

Good for Youtube.

White House needs a change.