People aren't going to forget, because it will be a really big news story whenever the execution happens.

Hawaii was annexed by the US decades before it became a state. There was a vote for statehood, but the alternate choice was to remain a territory - independence was never on the table, and it may just be that those who voted considered statehood the better choice of the two.

You say "not an atheist" which I assume you mean you have some sort of religious belief. Why is their religious belief less important or more nonsensical than yours?

The defense never tried to claim innocence. This trial was never about anything other than life in prison versus death penalty. It's a waste of taxpayer money since they certainly could have avoided trial and gotten a guilty plea with life in prison if they had taken the death penalty off the table. Plus you don't want to make martyrs - life in prison is much less glorious.

Indeed there is, but that is a good reason not to use python, and has nothing to do with whether tabs or spaces are better (also there are better reasons not to use python, I hate to harp on whitespace sensitivity because it's definitely not the worst thing about the language).

If people only used tabs it would be OK. But people use a mix of tabs and spaces, and it only displays right if you have your tab width set to the same value as the original developer. It's a nightmare. Use spaces only please. And bytes are cheap.

$30k is the launch cost. Summary sucks, read TFA.

The clerks don't care, and why should they? But I believe the computer was setup so it was truly impossible for them to complete a sale without entering something. I've seen them make up a name and address when I refuse to give them one.

I avoided Radio Shack because of that policy, as did many others. I'm sure it's one of the reasons they went out of business. At least I hope it is - it serves them right.

But they are in a loop, so what's your point?

And to be more pedantic, I don't think "+" is ever faster in Java, it gets expanded to StringBuilder at compile time. "+" is more readable and not slower if you can do it all in one statement. If spread out across control statements (if/else or loops) then use StringBuilder.

The language is not the problem, the code is terrible. They did String concatenation in the most expensive way possible. I'm pretty sure if you used a pre-sized StringBuilder it would be faster in memory.

They also make some very novice benchmarking mistakes.

This is actually a pretty good interview problem. Anyone who writes code like that should not be hired, even for a junior position.

Note that "sugar free" does not mean "calorie free". Sorbitol or xylitol are usually used in sugar-free gum and they do have calories.

It's not Apple's customers that are being defrauded - in fact it is Apple's customers that are doing the fraud. Apple is making it as convenient as possible for their customers to do so.

I think the most likely way to get your card data stolen these days is online ... where you also have to enter the CVV for everything. It does seem to be a rather pointless security measure.

If someone from the maintenance team was involved in a conspiracy to take down the plane I really doubt they would've recorded the evidence in the maintenance logs.

obligatory XKCD reference