This is bad for two reasons: 1) people clearly put too much trust in random CDNs to distribute their dependencies and 2) people don't track depencendies obsolescence properly.

I remember playing with this a long time again... but it's actually even older than I suspected.

A nice pattern to separate decision from actions in complex algorithms.

This is a useful construct in Python which is often forgotten.

Definitely not the rules you want to apply on your projects. Still it's interesting to know how the STL uses explicit.

This is become an important industry. Regulation is needed to avoid consumers to be in a mouse trap. This is necessary to reap the benefits of those technologies.