It's a tragedy that ; and : are often on the same key on the keyboard, are often both legal syntax, and are so visually similar. I wonder how much programmer time has been wasted.
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Several times a year I get emails from academic projects that have crawled GitHub and want to do surveys. I wish them luck, but there's a tragedy of the commons going on here.
The tragedy of backwards compatibility: Excel still considers 1900 to be leap year and doesn't plan to fix it: http://t.co/c52HXkaiEP