Ok, one thing broken. But I thought the dev tools were decent. The profiler seemed unreliable, but the rest was Chrome like.

You might want to think again. I tested the current IE (11) and its JS performance is already better than Chrome's and on par with Safari 8, and the HTML implementation seems pretty standard compliant. I didn't care much for the clumsy dialogs that showed up in some places, but in all, it's a much better browser than IE9 and anything before that.

This, indeed. Literacy is about being able to distill complex information from written sources that do not dwell too much on detail. Coding is about writing instructions for a machine that is too stupid to know that a cow is an animal unless someone tells it precisely how to do that. These two activities are pretty much opposites.

Coding does have a lot in common with math, and is also meant for problem solving. It does not share its universality, though. A more apt comparison would be: coding is the new welding.

I'm from continental Europe, and even I know who Duke is.

I agree. Using the f-word does not make someone racist. Emoji are a bad solution to a insignificant problem. The fact that people use that solution anyway doesn't change that.

Regular expressions are named after Kleene's description of regular expressions as an "algebra of regular sets". The only way to make the strings in the language accepted by an RE longer is by use of "*", which is as regular as it can be.

Precisely. I don't think anyone is really deeply attached to AC, and there are still good reasons to use it. It can also not be compared to the QWERTY keyboard: changing a keyboard can be as cheap as $2.50 (Amazon.com, Genuine Dell QuietKey USB Keyboard, or just a software change and a set of keyboard stickers) per seat, while changing power lines will cost somewhere between $2k and $10k per house. On a larger scale, where DC is better, it will slowly replace AC.

The phrase "We retain ... AC current for similar reasons." makes me believe the author doesn't know what (s)he is speaking about.

You've got your statistics all wrong: you misrepresent significance testing, and overlook that t-tests are only suitable for a small range of problems. Plus it doesn't bear on the discussion of causality. You should have been downmodded into oblivion.

Was somebody forcing people to buy anything from Standard Oil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It gets worse. I've seen this coming since 2008, but gene sequencing, preferably in combination with fMRI, is getting bigger. Not that it means anything: we don't know how a lump of neurons that consume more oxygen relate to behavior, and we don't know how genes affect lumps of neurons at any subtle level, let alone that we can conclude something from gene sequencing, but since it is very sexy and has new images to enhance psychological studies, there will be more and more of it, until you read one day: Reactions to Disgusting Images Determined by Genes.

I've worked in Matlab (doing DSP), but it's one butt ugly language. It's like FORTRAN with braces, and "global" only works sort of half. And its symbolic manipulation feels like an afterthought. Even Javascript is a better language. And for statistics, why not use R?

Pro tip: if you want to try your hand at Matlab: it's horribly expensive, but there are free clones available: Octave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave) and Scilab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilab). I prefer the latter, but be sure to check the list of differences with Matlab.

Article is bad and doesn't give any conclusive physical reason why cold fusion is impossible. It only says that one possibility is unlikely, and the rest is hand waving and guilt by association. What a bad link.

What's the max amount of disk space anyone needs then?

I think you can trust them a bit. They're not constantly lying to you about everything. At least, not the higher quality outlets. You do have to consider that often only partial information is available, and that they want to sell ads, so it's almost never the final word. But with that restriction, there are quite a few reliable news outlets available. Perhaps the best idea is to read everything two weeks later, so you can compare it to recent reports...