Bingo! I wish I had mod points, but I don't, so my stamp of approval will have to suffice ;)

I just tried working with a codebase that had the same arrays storing both ints and pointers, and doing index arithmetic all over the place. The really horrifying thing was that it actually compiled 64bit, and just behaved differently.

Nope. 1 is not a prime.

And most command-line-only Linux distros are still several orders of magnitude larger than Menuet, which actually has a graphical UI. ;)

Yeah, that too.

I've been watching this project for ages, and I'm excited to see it slowly maturing. Quite a bit of fun to play with if you have some time to kill.

Because
* It's fun?
* They can?
* They want to?
* To learn something?


I'm sure there are a few more. Does anyone have not-boring questions?

JavaScript faster than Java? No. It's not. Not even close. Java has fantastic performance when used correctly. It just happens to be a common intro-course language, so lowest-common-denominator sorts of programmers write a lot of crap code with it. The HotSpot VM JIT is basically magic, and the garbage collection beats out everything else.

"Sucks to work with Snowden"? More like "sucks to have been born without a brain". I mean, seriously, how contemptibly stupid do you have to be to work for a security agency and not have learned that you don't share your password with anyone.

The ending of the movie was also shockingly good, and the best preserved aspect of the adaptation process.

Not really. Mavericks did some really cool stuff under the hood. Timer-coalescing, "App Nap", and compressed memory are all pretty big. Take a look at the relevant sections of the Ars review to see what I mean.

The Apple approach is to buy a new phone every year. I know of no Apple users who've kept their Macs for less than 5 years (unless they dropped it down the stairs or let it soak in a coffee hot-tub). I've used plenty that were in the 8-10 range, and they were still kicking along just fine.

anti-science, you say?

Bingo.

Last I heard, we can already contain reactions that are hot enough where the cross-sections for aneutronic Deuterium + He3 reactions start becoming viable, though maybe that's only for MCF designs, and not for what the NIF guys are up to.