I'm guessing you don't count cURL as half-decent. Because it's API is C++k let alone idiomatic, modern C++?

It's not a defense of a bad law to say that it forces people to by "comply with the law".

I took it on my trip to Austria a week later and got it changed at the post office.

I suspect the market does not lie though, and if you are pedaling broken stuff t to middle-managers, it's best to not explain a damn thing.

Also, there is no a neat separation between nasal Americans and other English speakers. Many Australians are also quite nasal, whereas black Americans (unless you count Steve Urkel) don't strike me as nasal at all.

On the third hand: I find the Irish accent is higher pitched than most, without sounding either nasal or shrill. But Americans often sound a lot like the Irish, so that might also make them higher pitched.

But the pedants like me would have crept up to say "but Liskov tells us we can accept substitutes".

There is nothing new in this.

I had some visitors from from Washington DC recently. They were impressed at how much more "happening" the local shopping centre (Hornsby Westfield) was compared to American malls. I suspect Westfield is a bit of a world-leader in this business.

(Except I suppose it does happen, since the whole point of the article is that NYC does it).

But this is no panacea. The complexity will still be there, and ops folks will have to deal with it through extra layers of indirection and obscurity (which are other ways to spell "abstraction").

That might be the best compromise, but it is still a compromise.

Because that's the sort of thing that can blow out a lawsuit or result in bad press.

If the latter, then the answer is all of them.

Let's get this straight. There's "American English" used in the US and Canada. And then there English, where "colour" is spelled with a "U", and that's used in lot more countries, and natively spoken by more people than American English.

The authorities turning a blind eye to that stuff was not an upholding of anyone's civil liberties, it was being complicit in shutting down other's free expression.

> In fact, I would go further: Facebook’s stance is an essential expression of what makes American tech unique. Don Valentine, the legendary founder of Sequoia Capital who passed away last week, once said:

>> The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative, and disobedient.

> This is not a statement about participating in the marketplace of ideas, winning others over by the power of your argument. It is, rather, an affirmation of the absence of tyranny. Only when individuals are able to think for themselves can something truly new to the world be created, and the proof will be the success in the market for tech products and services.