I'm mean, you'd think anyone starting a major project today would use version control, that shouldn't even be a question, right? Right?!

And then you come across "modern" frameworks which can't be version controlled without database dump scripts.

And if you want to know the results, you'll have to RTFA. Submitter must be new here.

If you're going to mention the Canard Enchainé in France you might also want to mention Private Eye in the UK.

I think we can agree that "Planes Flown Into World Trade Center" is news, and "Area Man Posts Cat Video" is not

Sadly, Yahoo! (or the wire services they syndicate) seem to disagree on the latter. The bulk of the "Oddly Enough" section is at the level of "area man posts cat video", when it used to be interesting but unusual actual events.

This is early sign-up for insurance to cover treatment from January, so you're going to have to really stretch it to "already ascribe actual, real, deaths to their failure".

When did this discussion become about getting kids interested in programming? The overall context seems to be about things which professional programmers would do well to know.

The military isn't required by your constitution. Rather it's permitted, with an explicit requirement that its funding should need continual reauthorisation.

The Congress shall have power ... to raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years

The navy would seem to escape that restriction by virtue of being separately listed without it; presumably because a ship could be at sea for longer than that.

I would expect someone who was serious about writing an autobiography to research it. Memory is fallible.

I don't think the editor (or the submitter, if they wrote the headline) saw a map. If they had, they might realise that Côte d'Ivoire is a fairly small part of Africa. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't think "Wealth in America mapped using mobile phone data" is a suitable headline for an article which only looks at data from Manhattan.

Roussef doesn't give a crap what the NSA knows

Seriously? Ordinary people don't like being told "Your phone is being tapped". High-level politicians have even more reason to not like it: they have enemies with resources and motive to do them harm. She might dislike economic espionage only at an intellectual level, but her strong reaction is provoked by learning that her personal communications were intercepted.

To add to the delusion, check those figures. 970000 * 0.5% * 0.5% = 24.25, so their figures check out only if employing someone costs no more than their salary. Reality check: it costs between 50% and 100% more. They also assume that two dozen developers won't need any management. And frankly they would be better off employing 6 technical writers to document the system.

There's essentially no flow of air through a bottle neck either except when you're pouring.

The lead developer on Java generics was Neal Gafter, not Martin Odersky.

CRI audited the design and some output provided by Intel. They didn't audit the fab process to confirm that the production run of chips implement the design without modifications.

Maybe. Or maybe it's deliberately weakened by Intel in response to a request from NSA in an effort to produce something akin to the Debian weak key problem. Can you audit your CPU to see whether the implementation is the one which the proof belongs to?