It continues and always will because of how people are.

Back before Qwest got bought out by CenturyLink, you could pick various DSL providers, and MS was one of them. Don't know if they still do that but MS definitely is an ISP with webmail, Azure, etc.

Funny thing is that Jonathon Martin was absolutely vilified for speaking out against him being harassed.

Guess male on male harassment is still okay in many people's eyes.

I have known women "programmers" who couldn't write a hello world program by themselves who cry discrimination when confronted with their incompetence.

Until that sort of thing stops, and vile people like that entitled brat in the Donglegate farce go away, women claiming harassment in IT will always go under a microscope.

Linux started out community driven and was like that for most, if not all of the 90's.

GitHub is closely connected to Git, not the other way around.

GitHub would be called HgHub or something if Git didn't exist. Git would be completely unaffected if Github didn't exist.

And that is exactly how Florida ended up.

+1

There is a difference between premature optimization and good programming. Sadly, the latter gets confused with the former.

Universities exist to produce an educated populace, it is not a job training center.

Without understanding the theory you are not going to be able to do much other than be an API monkey.

It runs fine with Wine.

Do you know the definition of export?

What is wrong with accepting code from Cubans?

This is as stupid as the encryption export restrictions. It is like the government thinks that no one can implement encryption or that foreign code is dirty.

How about they put some restrictions where it matters like toys and dog food from China?

A confession is not at all the same thing as pleading guilty.

The OP is right, a confession alone is not sufficient for conviction. Go to a cop and confess to a crime you didn't commit. You might get slapped with filing a false statement but you will not get convicted on the crime you confessed to.

Rasmus couldn't figure out how to write a parser to detect variables without appending a $ on it. There is no other reason.

At least other languages that have sigils in variable names exist for semantic reasons, not to make your crappy parser happy. For example Ruby, $, @ and @@ all have semantic meaning as do variable that have no sigil.

You can't determine equality without checking if they are transitive.

It is fairly basic math, checking if its reflexive, symmetric and transitive all determine equality, all three properties have to be true.