Some of them even go to 12.

A friend of mine recently re-joined Facebook after a year or two of not using it. He found that despite our best efforts, he was still enough out of the loop that he was missing a heap of social events.

tl;dr Not playing only works if your friends don't use Facebook as a primary communication medium.

Is this still as much the case given the trend towards increasingly parallel multi-core CPUs?

You have to take into account the potential of the new technology as well. Consider the transition from DC to AC power - initially there wasn't much in it, because voltages were low and transmission distances were short. It was only after the whole electricity industry scaled up that AC really showed its strengths... but the potential was there and so it was a worthwhile investment even early on.

I prefer to use power-of-two values for my length measurements, too. At 2 cm = 1 inch, I'm way more inches than you.

Yeah, our first x86 computer (in 1993) originally had a 40mb hard drive, and that was mid-range.

So don't you think that the telemetry shutting off BEFORE the plane dropped off radar is even MORE suspicious?

If they'd shut off at the same time, then kaboom. If they'd shut off after the plane dropped off radar, then maybe some electronics was battery backed or whatever and was still transmitting until it got waterlogged and sank. But shutting off 20 minutes before the plane dropped off radar would indicate deliberate sabotage.

Notice that you're still "giving" stuff, with conditions. Without the idea of private property, you can't give things because you can't own things. And you can't apply conditions, for the same reason. So no, I wouldn't breach that trust, because there would be no gift and nothing for the trust to apply to. It would not exist to be breached.

What test was that?

If something isn't your private property then you forfeit the right to dictate how it is used. So I could take stuff you've worked hard for, and break it, and you have no right to be upset because it isn't yours.

True, but if your company is already run by crappy HR (and good HR would be involving the existing technical team when evaluating new technical hires) then you probably want to get out as soon as possible. Eventually the company will be almost entirely composed of cheap but useless drones, true, but long before then they'll make the place so tech-hostile that anyone half competent will have left.

None of that is the IDE's fault. All of that is the fault of whoever hired the untrained incompetents. An IDE is not and never has been a replacement for understanding what you're doing.

Yep. And consider that most (all?) of these offer a combination of syntax highlighting, auto indentation, potentially auto-complete and context sensitive help (if only through plugins). They provide a lot of the features traditionally associated with an IDE.

People arguing that "IDEs are bad" need to get their argument straight. Are they saying that learning a language requires separately compiling your code on the command-line? Because that's about the only thing that a good programming text editor doesn't do.

"Your program has crashed."

Think of it as them letting us skip the first three generations of buggy crap that usually comes out before the first 'good' model. They got enough funding that they don't have to rush to market, and they're taking time to really get it right.