I misspoke, I am not studying GCC for a course, the course is GCC: CS 715 at IIT Bombay - Design and and Implementation of GNU Compiler Generation Framework taught by Prof. Uday Khedkar.
The course plan includes studying the various passes (analysis, optimizations, etc.) that GCC makes, adding/modifying passes, and implementing a machine description for GCC. The languages analyzed are C and C++, with initial activity on x86 systems and then on spim, the MIPS simulator.

Wasn't he the one who started out with that ridiculous Java vs C# comparison? http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/java-vs-c-which-performs-better-in-the-real-world/ I usually ignore any article with his name on it, but I am studying GCC for a course. Turns out, I should have continued ignoring.

I think this also holds for medical students in India - students in government medical colleges have to work for a few years for the government.

It's usually called "Click-to-play". You can whitelist/blacklist sites as you like. The feature is supported in Chrome since forever and I use it. Since the majority of users just want youtube to start playing without added clicks, it's a sane default to allow auto-play.

FTFY. Kneel before the Prince.

Those "other uses" are profitable, but not as much as the current use. They will be got around to when the current use isn't all that profitable.

Isn't this what they do? In Ubuntu and Arch Linux, Python 3.x is python3, Python 2.x is python2 (with binaries for minor python versions as well: python2.7 and python3.3 are both binaries available on my system). Usually, (as per Python's recommendations), python is symlinked to python2, but on Arch, it points to python3.

Hitman: Blood Money had Agent 47 infiltrating the White House and assassinating the Vice President. But then, nearly all of the targets in the HItman games are villainous in character. You could try to the guards of the White House (I assume they are soldiers), but it's tougher in this mission to come out alive doing so.

Shitty context menu with 'Rename' just on top of 'Delete'. 'Delete' bypasses Trash. Guess which I clicked.

(Emphasis mine.) That's worth a chuckle, at least.

Partially correct. The responsibilities in this case are passed on to the the legal guardian(s).

That quote reminded me of Michael Crichton's Airframe. Was he basing it on that crash?

When did you last test it? Most of my files open well enough. I'm on 25.0

While not a native speaker (mine is Malayalam, which has plenty of words originating in Sanskrit), I have heard yaan being used in both senses - journey and vehicle.

The article itself has only one link, so it's not a click farm. But it is depressingly low on facts.