On: Sorry, What's Going on Here?

[tontonius]

Welcome stranger, to the world of HackerNews! Here you will find a collection of the brightest minds in the world, ready to share their ideas and knowledge. Step into the realm of infinite possibilities and explore the vastness of the internet. Hold onto your curiosity and discover the depths of your own ingenuity!

[ChrisMarshallNY → tontonius]

> Here you will find a collection of the brightest minds in the world

… Fighting fang, tooth, and claw, over critically important concepts, such as whether or not we should all be forced to use type-safe languages.

[exo-cortex → ChrisMarshallNY]

we should! We have laws against oil spills, we should have laws that prohibit languages with the singular purpose of making me point a gun to my foot and pull the trigger repeatedly.

/s

[krapp → exo-cortex]

You can have my footgun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[ChrisMarshallNY → krapp]

I think Stroustrup was quoted as saying something like "With C, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but with C++, you can blow your whole leg off."

[krapp → ChrisMarshallNY]

It does increment the number of barrels by one.

[lionkor → tontonius]

$15 says you work in sales (very fun comment to read)

[noduerme → tontonius]

I was just thinking last night about how the average HN comment is at about written intelligence the level of a very bright college freshman. And how, that being the average, it means that for every 50 comments by people below that grade, there are 50 above.

But the one thing that's amazing here is that the smartest people in the room inevitably turn out to be either 14 year olds who invented a new category of social app, or 74 year olds who worked for NASA... everyone in between being sort of ephemeral.