"Ah, maybe you're right. I think I'm used to configuration over convention "

I think you meant the reverse.

You are correct! Edited. Thank you for pointing that out.

Looks interesting. Can you explain why someone would use this over the alternatives?

People from other societies deserve all these good things too. Uncontrolled immigration may not be the best way to achieve this though.

> Nobody just "deserves" anything.

A few comments up you're saying the French deserved their stuff because their ancestors worked for it.

Nobody just "deserves" anything [just for being born. Someone has to work hard for everything]

Yet you claimed precisely that a few comments above.

Cognitive dissonance.

I agree that country of origin is 100 percent luck. That doesn't mean all cultures are equal though.

Mine is better than yours, my government told me!

It seems to be a word in Spanish. It isn't a word in English.

prejudicial is absolutely a word in English. look it up

But "perjudicial" is a word in Spanish, meaning "harmful", "detrimental". I think that was the meaning intended.

Thank you.

Unlike Kotlin or Clojure?

Yes. Nim can be used for system libraries, server and client side applications and runs on small microcontrollers.

I first saw Tup a few years ago as it seemed to be the preferred way to filewatch/automagically-transpire moonscript to lua.

I didn't mean to be pompous. My native tongue is German and I didn't know a better word than Zeitgeist for what I wanted to say.

I feel that language in general is being used in a different way today than even just a few years ago. Admittedly, I don't have objective measures for this but I know I am not alone in this assessment. Even the Economist recently ran a feature about this lamentable phenomenon.

Thank you. I wasn't trying to be rude either and really appreciate the response!

Zeitgeist has the meaning not only of "the spirit of the times" (literal translation), but of the sense of a binding or constraining dominant ideals and beliefs of a time, which can be viewed as proscribing a cage within which a set of contemporaneously accessible ideas are constrained.

The idea was promoted by Albert Szent-Gyorgi in a 1970 book, The Crazy Ape.

There's a good overview of the concept in this VSauce2 video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cgOFQcNZiFk&t=9m43s

I'm finding the top-level complaint registered, its note, and significance on this discussion overstated and distracting.

Despite the Zeitgeist [1] of naming things after war or terrorism [2] hopefully words still have meaning [3].

[1]: spirit of the times/current fashion/popular tendencies

[2]: which causes war/terrorism to lose meaning because it refers to everything

[3]: compare with [2]

"Even though it seems that words have diminished meaning in our modern society." Or something like that.

What was he supposed to say? "We're fucked, sell the stock, guys."

They do provide an android phone.

too little, too late