@gnat This is basically why it's required explicit in C#, gotta remember the fellas who designed .NET/C# were haskellers who are in love with strong typing, much as they like implicitness they believe everything should be statically guaranteed and on purpose

@MichaelT Anyone know? Is this good?

^^^ I flagged for this for deletion but my flag was declined. Does anyone know why? Is this question actually salvageable? Could someone possibly make a heroic edit and save this question?

^^^ I'm just not sure why someone would decline my flag; as if to say, "No, this question may be closed now; but it's a candidate for a 'Reopen'."

@MichaelT absurd blog?

and no, never heard of that book, sounds like Colbert's I Am America, and So Can You!

ohh my idea of writing a blog full of total nonsense

Oh that's john hodgman, that dude's funny as hell

Now I really want to buy that book heh, sounds like perfect bathroom reading

> Musician Jonathan Coulton enlivens Hodgman's more lengthy—sometimes plodding—narrative passages. Coulton's musical interludes during Hodgman's profiles of "Our 51 States" prove especially entertaining.

Hah, he's really aiming directly at my demographic apparently working with jonathan coulton

-- betterprogrammer.com/certificate/BP1QJQ99D --

-_- happy

@WorldEngineer No, it's 42

@WorldEngineer it is especially if his question is non-constructive