I've never owned an Apple machine that needed to be replaced within 5 years of the purchase date, and the only people I know who have are the ones who dropped their laptops on sidewalks or down stairwells and cracked the screen. Troll somewhere else.

My officemate has a German laptop. Not only are the symbols like () in the wrong place, they switched z and y keys. Horrific.

Indeed. Humans are the best long distance runners on the planet, and we evolved that way so that we could chase our prey until they died of exhaustion.

This comment should be at +5 Insightful. Mods, do your duty.

Harm and benefit according to whose definition? Utilitarianism is incredibly subjective.

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.