That's a huge topic

Indeed.

...that both PRC (mainland China) and ROC (Taiwan) agree there is only one "China", but disagree over which government is legitimate.

Which is a great piece of political mental masturbation but of little use in reality, where there are separate governments and separate courts and separate financial institutions at play.

(Taiwan+China are technically the same country)

In what way are they the same country?

One undergraduate spending 12 weeks porting Darwin (!) to a new CPU architecture as part of their senior internship should not be used to infer anything about what Apple will be doing moving forward. Have people lost their minds? This is the biggest non-story I've ever read. He could just as easily been doing this with *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS or whatever. Honestly.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2011-705.pdf

This is unfortunately just the way it is: some places do the Right Thing (for various meanings of Right Thing) and others do not. Now you'll know to ask about this kind of thing when you interview. :-)

... there is a critical mass on FB that G+ is going to have a hard time beating. Many of the people I interact with on FB are family members (who won't switch because they have no need to: it's a wonder they're on FB at all) and old friends from High School and College, many of whom won't switch because they see no point in doing so (and, as I said, probably have family links that they don't want to loose.) Unfortunately even though (if?) G+ is better, it's unlikely that people will will switch en masse. It is highly unlikely that G+ will do to FB what FB did to MySpace.

It can be disabled with a single shot. It doesn't even need to be a particularly well placed shot.

I was working on a project at Spyglass in the late '90s that did this... it isn't a new idea. It just got pushed to the background when devices started getting more powerful and bandwidth increased.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this extension: compile time type safety for internal (i.e., compiled) queries against a full-text database. Seems like a nice POC that has really no use in real life. The "rogue-like" moniker escapes me completely: is this some reference to database technology I'm not aware of? I just found it confusing.

Was on a federal grand jury in Massachusetts: economic crimes. One day a week for 18 months. Cases were interesting though: economic crimes included environmental issues (like illegal dumping in the ocean) and we were hearing the continuing saga of Whitey Bolger. Very cool. (Then I read the book Black Mass, about the Bolger gang, and was scared shitless.)

I was just going to ask the question, but then it occurred to me that he may have been hearing the Chinooks that came in behind the original force... pretty hard to silence them.

Hmmmm... today *is* Judgement Day... perhaps Skynet's first target is AWS's East-Coast data center. Coincidence? I think not.

That may be, but when my kids were born part of the paperwork I filled out at the hospital to get their birth certificates and names registered was a SSN form, and they had numbers before they were home from the hospital. You need the numbers to claim them on your tax forms.

Turbo Pascal dominated the PC programming space in the 80s. And the Apple LISA and original Macintosh were programmed in two languages: assembly or Pascal. Hell, the Mac Toolbox used Pascal calling conventions and you had to deal with "Pascal Strings" (the length of the string being the first byte) for years and years, even in other languages. As another commenter said, "get off my lawn."