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"Legislators and personal-injury lawyers eagerly hype risks with negligible real impact, like secondhand smoke, or getting cancer from trace amounts of chemicals. Sometimes they create considerable public concern about risks that don't exist, like that of contracting anti-immune disease from breast implants, or cell phones causing cancer."

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"PHP is dangerous enough to make life difficult but not so much it is unusable. Ruby “in the large”, even when executed by a team of very disciplined programmers, will require Herculean effort."

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"7.0 has been widely anticipated as the release that FreeBSD fans can have confidence in. I wish I could say that FreeBSD 7.0 lived up to the hype. I've long since lost the hope of returning to FreeBSD as a desktop or server operating system"

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"In Haskell, you have to start in the correct monad if you plan on doing any I/O (and you do). Ocaml's "implicit" monad is the same monad the overwhelming majority of programs live in: the imperative monad with exceptions."

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"If you’ve developed software for long enough, you’ve most certainly heard of a 'business logic layer.' .... [it] is a bad design that leads to bad software. Or at the very least, dangerously poor semantics."

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"There are quite a few good things about the Microsoft release ... but there are quite a few evil things as well:" DomainRequest, HTML5 DOM Storage, ARIA, <meta> Switch, Parsing

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"languages really are religions, and they maintain their grip ... by fear of Death. After programmers spend years memorizing the proper incantations, telling them that their hard-won language is going away is like pointing a gun at their family."

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"users who have had their consoles repaired or replaced ... quickly find out that all the Xbox Live Marketplace content they purchased, including Arcade games, can no longer be used offline."

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"we have no need for dynamic higher-order programming. All we need is static higher-order programming. In fact, "static higher-order programming" has another name.... In Lisp and its many relatives, "static higher-order programs" are called macros."

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"Android is not a better Web 2.0, nor anything like it. Instead it's a better PalmOS. Yet another standalone OO programming environment. With a networking API. Yawn."

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More homework means worse performance: “the overall correlations between national average student achievement and national averages in [amount of homework assigned] are all negative.”

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"message-based components [...] are probably easier to scale than locking intensive languages such as Java, but syntax itself is not enough. Just because you write a program in Erlang doesn't mean your code will scale better on multiple processors"

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A very detailed but somewhat fragmented Java critique by Jamie Zawinski, XEmacs creator, major Netscape developer and current owner of the DNA Lounge club.

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