> I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff.

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

> comply with the law

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

It also depends on the country. I had family hand me a 500 Euro note because they couldn't even get get it changed at banks in France.

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

It's a joke. The whole point is for the author to cast themself in a negative light.

Yeah, it's an amazingly creative technique: explain the fuck your thing is, so that people might decide they want it.

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.

But guess who approves purchase orders for business software? Coz it ain't the developers...

Most versions of the American accent are a bit nasal compared to other English speakers, so I guess that makes it higher pitched on average -- even if I wouldn't call it "shrill".

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.

It would have been a great title.

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

Is there an actual explanation of how the design fridge works?

> ..., you often get no feedback after job interviews.

There is nothing new in this.

Now you are confusing me, because in Australia "mall" means something else -- and in Bondi Junction there's a mall right outside the Westfield.

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.