According to TFA, he "calculated the average number of WTF commit comments per repository". So why not per line of code or whatever? C++ projects tend to be rather large (because it is harder to write large projects in other languages), so surely by this metric C++ would win (aka lose) here.
If there is one thing I have learned about statistics it is that you can prove about anything you want
How much one can work productively very much depends on all kind of conditions, most importantly the person itself and his/her age. The useful hours seem to start to decrease with age (although the total productivity may go up with more experience). For myself, I personally start feel myself tired after 6 hours of intense work; I remember from my twenties it was more like 10 or 12 back then. The problem is, when you keep working in that condition, you create extra work for yourself or other people as your sub-standard work needs to be undone and redone later.
If you really want to keep working after 8 hours then a way is full test-driven development. First write tests to test for anything that needs to be done, then write the code to pass the tests. Writing tests is much easier than doing the actual work, so there is a chance you won't screw up at this step. Then work as long or as sleepy to have the code pass the tests, and feel happy you have earned some more free money for the shareholders.
CEOs are absolutely rewarded for success, because his performance can't be seen as anything other than a success by Microsoft.
There, fixed that for you!
It's hard to believe anyone would confuse the NSA spy agency with NASA, the space agency
There's only a single letter of difference between the two acronyms; they can easily be confused with each other by anyone unfamiliar with either of the two agencies.
Add to that the fact that the the hacker was Brazilian and probably didn't speak English as his first language, I would see this as being extremely plausible.
Mod the parent up! In the first place, why should somebody in Brazil care at all if some TLA is the same as some FLA or not?
We have a dedicated organization to handle such matters - UN. If UN reaches a conclusion
The UN is not a law-making body. They are not the world's government. They exist for the sole function of allowing for nations to broker agreements, negotiate treaties or join together in achieving some common goal and, to be honest, the UN generally does a lousy job even at those things.
Exactly. And if UN fails to reach a consensus or common goal, this shows there is a conflict between major players and so there is no real point to take unilateral military action as the same conflict would be then played out in the wild on the territory of the victim country, as we have seen already so many times. At least nobody should dare to claim this would be in the benefit of the people living in the said country.
BTW, https://www.google.com/search?q=UN+%22reaches+consensus%22 returns 25,000 hits so it seems UN is not utterly useless.
...you can't put up a new statement, without committing a crime.
... and you can't avoid putting it up, without commiting another crime (communicating the event). In my book this reads you are already guilty in advance and go straight to jail. Playing a smart-ass does not work with bullies!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
