Is this also the plot of Buster Keaton’s The General?
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This is something to propose for Wikipedia’s April 1st front page…
Guy specifically aimed for the heart so that his brain could be preserved for research, which worked.
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April 2020 - wasn’t this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government’s only hope?
These were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds and instructions to buy whatever is available.
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“I’ll just watch this video of a disney hotel review, it can’t be that long”
When this happened in the UK, a footballer had to shame the government into fixing it
From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.
This is almost as bad as Lindybeige’s proposal for a french navy motto: “To the water! This is the hour!”.
Or in the local language: “à l’eau, c’est l’heure”
That is essentially what the “Post-Open Source” idea is trying to do.
That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all “introductory offers” with asterisks.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Taylor Swift?
What they mean is that the variable names and function names are documentation.
For example changing “for( i in getList() )” to “for( patient in getTodaysAppointments() )” is giving the reader more information that might negate the need for a comment.