Look, with millions of iPhones everywhere throughout the world, people hacking and jailbreaking, others listening to any bit coming out of the beast, do you really think such huge spygate is possible? And, besides, the article sounds BS.

Ok, but saying "One reason: verbosity sucks" tends to make that argument the most important one. While there are many differences between C and Pascal, and verbosity is certainly not the most important one (unless you're paid inversely proportional to the numbers of characters you write in a program!). Pascal is chosen in schools for instance, because of it's more rigid structure to discipline programs writing, its "pointers" are type safe, pointers arithmetic is not allowed etc... etc... I did program in Pascal and C, and verbosity was certainly not a concern - the rest was! (I prefer C). Would that be Cobol, OTOH....

Most people don't have the knowledge to assess by themselves if a product fits their expectation. Not only for food, any product needs a thoughtful advice/label from an independent and competent / national team to guide customers. What difference does it make for a customer who reads for the first time "chicken raised outdoors" and "chicken from battery cages"? The answer is here, and it's a big long, but a summary on a sticker would help customers to chose more wisely - and that would dramatically improve competition between very-low quality products sold 0.9 X against a much better product sold X (while the manufacturing cost of a "good" product would be twice the cost of a "bad" product). People tend to chose the cheapest one, by lack of information.

Oh, I assumed it was DNA as in GMO... but it's just DNA... that makes a lot of food!

Verbosity is not the only diff between C and Pascal

User error? You may have some apps that do that on your behalf - don't use those apps. Moreover there is a setting (ios 8) in General > Background App Refresh where you auth or not the apps to do something while the phone is Off.

Sounds like BS.

Ok, but its light is not 1 nanolux, is it? This is the 1 nanoamp, that's ridiculous to keep that thing alive while it's clearly dead.

*nanoAmp...

1 nanosecond..., honestly, that's typically British. In the US that battery would have been trashed already. The Brits are way too much attached to these long lasting historical figures. And royalty is another example.

Creating a PDF sounds very static. How do you generate dynamic pages? Even a small change like displaying the time would require a new PDF generation. While it's doble to automatically generate PDFs on the fly, doing so for all clients is likely to be a slow, resource eater process. Even for static pages, some browsers/configurations do save the PDF as a file / download, or open the doc in a separate tab/window. Pretty inconvenient for the end user.

Using a framework would really make sense for the client side, imo - ie CSS, Javascript, HTML, to cope with browsers differences and other language peculiarities, the result is usually immediately visible, tangible. The server side otoh may require more attention to detail if data from client is checked / analyzed / processed / stored - leaving that responsability to a framework will likely produce a lot of spaghetti code doing only approximately what you want, and any manual maintenance (ie modify the resulting code directly) is hard and cut the consistency links with the FM.

Well you can click on "Score" and get a fair distribution of what's the comment actual score. Yours for instance is (currently) 50% Interesting 30% Underrated 20% Funny. So you're quite interesting, with some funny moments as well.