For crying out loud, Google Trends compares search terms without any context. All the comparisons I've seen in this discussion make as much sense as mine. Time to write a new story about Gnome losing to goblins and dwarves?

(Disclamer: I'm no expert in routing algorithms or network problems in general)
Aside from both these problems having to do with finding a path on a graph, I see little similarity. In the TSP you need to find the shortest path to cover all nodes("cities") on a graph, while here you need to find a path between two nodes ("computers") which would both be fast and not cause traffic bottlenecks. I feel there may be many various metrics to define what an "optimal" path should be, each one better in one regard and worse in another (e.g. minimal/average ping, tendency to cause bottlenecks, average router load worldwide, percentage of traffic routed through the NSA headquarters and so on).

There may be valid reasons the Iraqi forces are using these fake detectors. If the look of these devices makes some clueless criminals afraid of smuggling explosives, they are serving their purpose in preventing crime.

I admire him as much as anyone else standing up for the free flow of information, even though what he did may have been short-sighted in our dystopian and violent dog-eat-dog world. I just hope he won't be turned into a propaganda tool by the government of the country he ends up living in. I'm sure there are people in this world who would not mind using a little bit of torture to extort some convenient made-up "disclosures" from him.

I meant the original content creator which is the developer, while the video maker/uploader (i.e. derived content creator) is the letsplayer.

Gameplay videos can be entertaining for their plot, dialogues and visuals even if the player says nothing and plays poorly. On the other hand, a good "letsplayer" can make it much more entertaining to watch and ultimately attract some buyers. They should realize that such a symbiosis is good for both of them. The developers should stop removing or taking all the ad revenue while letsplayers should share it with the developer.
Would be nice to see if Youtube allowed to share revenues between the content creators and the video makers/uploaders.

They do not do it for free. They collect information about my interests in news and articles to pick the ads I'll most likely click. This is a fair tradeoff, not charity.

Although I seldom use their search engine directly since they focus more on searches in Russian, I can confirm that it works very well. They also have, among other things, better maintained and more detailed maps of ex-soviet countres with better traffic jam and accident tracking, an EXTREMELY convenient product search that lets you specify an insane amount of properties and features to pick the most fitting item that exists on the market and then find a good rated and cheap place to buy it, a great multilingual online dictionary and a convenient online storage service which has existed far longer than Google Drive. Their web pages have a simple, consistent and concise design, their ads are few and non-intrusive, and, on top of all this, the company has an almost cult standing among many tech students for its high wages and free CS and data mining school where they teach interested people in-depth data mining, artificial intelligence, algorithms and many other related and not-so-much things.

Why do I mention all this? First, to confirm that they are popular for a very good reason and, second, because most of their services use Internet data mining techniques to gather results, so if you live in CIS, chances are you are hooked anyway and you generate many internet searches indirectly even if you don't use their search feature. Unless Google pays as much attention to foreign countries as it does to the U.S. and keeps expanding its services, it should not be surprising to see sound local competition in some countries.

I dug more deeply into your posts and see now that you planned your wiki as a temporal experiment from the very beginning (and quite explicitly said so). It's great that you intend to preserve the user-created data as well, so nothing of value will be lost. Still, I think your project would have grown much more popular in a few years if you didn't give up and gave some sort of a pledge that it won't be shut down in a year or two. Anyway, thank you for your attempt in improving this valuable source of information.

Shutting down in less than a year because the project got too little attention is foolish as it takes years for most users to discover you. I had no idea it existed, if I knew, I would have tried it as I do believe that EmacsWiki has a fair amount of problems. Shutting down and dragging down all content and time that users were willing to contribute is just ridiculously irresponsible. EmacsWiki may not be perfect, but it has been around for years and I am fairly confident that the owner will not decide to shut it down tomorrow or next year on a whim like this guy.

Misleading title is misleading.

s/more error-prone/less error-prone

If your coworker is actually really smart and experienced, maybe he has a good reason to do things his way and you're just not seeing it? Maybe he could explain that reason behind his naming convention and avoiding certain features and it would make more sense? I had a couple of interesting talks on similar topics with older programmers in our team (I'm a newbie) where they actually convinced me on most points why their style and policy to avoid certiain "fancy" language features and practices was more error-prone and readable after a while of working on the project.

Let us now hope that no ponzi scheme was involved and they've got enough funds to make and ship normal consoles as well by the schedule.

Apart from getting rid of obsolete code, you also get rid of an additional target architecture that could potentially reveal certain bugs and implicit assumptions in the platform-independent part of the kernel that do not fire up on other architectures. That said, I have virtually no experience with the kernel and I have no idea whether this argument makes any bit of sense with the code in question.