So what you're saying is that sticking electrodes right into your brain's pain center and stimulating it directly is not torture?

Wanna try?

No, it does not - it applies to all people under the jurisdiction of the United States, except where it says otherwise. Go ahead, try to actually read it - e.g. "the right of people to keep and bear arms ...". And yes, there are court cases that have established that as a precedent, too.

There are different rules on the battlefield, but once you capture them and bring them under US jurisdiction, all constitutional protections apply.

In any case, torture is an atrocity and a war crime regardless of what US Constitution says about it.

Sure. Given the usual inertia when going against something very entrenched, this is always how it is going for a new contender. But so long as it is actually meaningfully growing, time will inevitably come when it overtakes.

The big part to it was the libraries. It took a long time for all the big players to embrace 3.x, but this is the case now - Django, scipy stack etc are all here now. So, when starting a new project, there's pretty much no reason to go 2.x anymore. This hasn't been true even two years ago.

That has not been my experience, based on user-reported bugs for the Python IDE that I'm working on. 2.x is still more popular in production, but 3.x is growing steadily.

You apt-get install the app, and it'll install the requisite Python version automatically as a dependency. And all Linux distros that I've seen handle 2.x and 3.x installed side by side just fine, as well.

The open sourcing process is not complete yet, but the stated goal is to open source the complete server stack - i.e. everything that is needed to run an ASP.NET vNext application. It's kinda messy in that it's spread across several GitHub repos right now, but look at this and this.

GTA is so much more than a parody of "crime culture". It's a parody on culture in general. If you have ever listened to the entire track for WCTR or WKTT, you know what I mean. And remember the commercials?

Have a look at WA Department of Fish and Wildlife.

There are some WTFs still when you look beyond just the police agencies. For example, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife has acquired 130 5.56 rifles. Why?

Yes, that sounds a lot like someone belonging to a fascist totalitarian society would say to the resident of a free world.

Doubly ironic that most Spartan soundbites come to us because they were recorded by their opponents, rather than from them directly. Then again, totalitarian societies never last long.

If the normal procedure for pull requests was not followed - i.e. if he was a guy who needed to sign off, and he was circumvented - then it was absolutely the right course of action for him to revert. Procedures exist for a reason, and you don't get to skip them because your pull request is to right some social wrongs or something.

For example, they will likely update the bundled V8 engine to use a more recent version, that is actually supported by Google, and doesn't have known codegen bugs.

(right now, even unstable node 0.12 has V8 that's so old that it's unsupported by upstream)

There are plenty of people who acknowledge open source as pragmatically useful in some/many/most cases, but not follow it as some kind of God-ordained religion for everyone.

Speaking of "Windows Azure" - it's not that anymore, the "Windows" bit is gone. It's now just "Microsoft Azure".

Which should also tell you something.

What you describe is the implementation details. The end result is that Microsoft is jumping onto the F/OSS bandwagon, which was long overdue. So yes, it's definitely a win for F/OSS - finally the last major OS and development tools maker is fully acknowledging that the model is not only valid, but preferred, at least for some types of applications.

That it is also a win for Microsoft is orthogonal to all that.