OMG. Slurm! Well, I learned something today.

[Excerpt from Wikipedia]:
Recently, several companies in Asia and Europe have begun to manufacture dietary supplements and energy drinks which contain synthetic versions of secretions of the larvae of Vespa mandarinia, which the adult hornets usually consume. The manufacturers of these products make claims that consuming the larval hornet secretions (marketed as "hornet juice") will enhance human endurance because of the effect it has on adult hornets' performance.

The parent post didn't deserve to be modded down. It is highly credible that Lua would have a very low defect rate. Lua has a small, clean, source code base, and it was audited by large organizations such as Verisign for high reliability databases and by The Wikimedia Foundation for security.

Unless they work with Toys for Bob, they can't reference anything in Star Control 1 or 2 because Toys for Bob retains the copyright for the characters and story.
http://www.incgamers.com/2013/07/open-source-star-control-2-team-express-doubts-over-atari-ip-sale

Interesting timing. Wonder if it was related/coordinated to the Ubuntu forums attacks.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/21/0318243/ubuntuforumsorg-hacked

The Surface is nothing. We lost a full billion on Microsoft Kin. That was at least a full round number.

"I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"

Microsoft has great products they can use to compensate those early adopters.

How about a brown Zune?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune#Sales)

Or maybe a WebTV?
(http://slashdot.org/story/13/07/07/1224244/microsoft-says-goodbye-to-webtvmsn-tv)

Well Zune Pass has got to work (ForSure)!

Instead of those arbitrary picks, how about looking at Google Summer of Code?

Those projects have conveniently listed what things they want help on and already have allocated mentors to lead those projects.

While you might not be a student, if you really want to help out, I bet most of those projects would welcome additional involvement and the mentors would be willing to talk with you if you are serious about helping.

In fact, the harm caused by gcc being GPL was the very reason Clang was invented.

The political motivations behind GPL forced gcc to be developed in such a way that it was monolith and impossible to build more advanced tooling that needed data from the intermediate stages of the compile process.

See Chandler Carruth's talk "Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys". At the beginning between 2:20 and 4:00, he quotes Richard Stallman's response to their proposed changes and demonstrates that using gcc is a non-starter.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys

Asking how much it costs is a smart question because everybody here seems to forget that Nintendo is licensing services like News from The Associated Press.

Slashdotters seem to have short memories about how expensive IP can be:
http://slashdot.org/story/09/08/03/2125223/ap-will-sell-you-a-license-to-words-it-doesnt-own

LucasArts shutting down is a significant and sad event, but adventure gamers should remember their history. Never forget Sierra Online's Chainsaw Monday.

C11 introduced Generic Selection which allows type control in macros. Too bad C++ diverged so much from C.

They picked the wrong type of quotes for comparison.
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