What about the other 49%? Are they real aliens? Or just NSA? Or some other TLA?

I've been waiting to find out about this one. Waiting a long time.

I see plenty of racial diversity. There are folks from India, China, Korea, Japan and many of the islands in the south Pacific where I work. And if you look closely at the so-called "white" folk, many come from all across Europe and Arabia. Are they represented equally? No. If anything, "white" people are underrepresented compared to their percentage of the population. It's a mistake to talk about "racial diversity" when that's not really the problem. It just distracts us by framing it as a problem of white people discriminating against non-whites.

After a few attempts that made it through the gauntlet, it quickly became a fool's errand. Why should anyone risk months of work only to watch some nameless, faceless drone at Apple issue a thumbs down rejection? At least in Roman times, the Emperor was brave enough to show his face when issuing the thumbsdown. What a wretched market. It's impossible to do anything except sell stupid games. (And I say that as someone who likes stupid games.) Then they have the gall to take 30% for doing next to nothing. Seriously. It's just a db insert and some FTP.

They rape our privacy for their profit. Now they both happen to be extremely useful and this is their real gift. I'm not sure what the point here is, except that there's a fine line between malware and a $100b company.

If someone complains you don't hire enough people in group X because you can't find many techies in group X, you now add another pool of talent.

Alas, it's the advisor's responsibility to get jobs for his/her students. If this PhD doesn't have a job, the advisor is either incompetent or doesn't like the student. Or both.

Dream on. There are some who were in industry, but every single one of them chose grad school over working in industry. The PhD sends the signal, "I don't like industry. I want to write papers." So why hire a guy like that?

"We have no plans to do anything like that. Swift is a new option for developing on the platform. We have no plans to drop C, C++ or Objective-C. If youÃ(TM)re happy with them, please feel free to keep using them."

https://lists.apple.com/archiv...

"Swift is Apple's modern, type-safe language for Cocoa development But Objective-C remains a first-class citizen too"

http://devstreaming.apple.com/...

Seems like it's not meant to supplant but to live alongside it.

If you shoplift N times, you're going to go to jail eventually. If you break into someone's house, you're going to go to jail eventually. The evidence here is clearer than most crimes. We have IP addresses, times and other details that are much more incontrovertible than the evidence we use to put people away for life. So why not? I say that people who are too cheap to pay for content should have to face the consequences.

It's all about hating on the boys. Do they have any programs to get men interested in other topics? Nope. Do they do anything to help boys? Nope. But somehow they want to drive the boys out of the classroom.

Google and Netflix fund many of the NGOs that claim to be for freedom, privacy and -- surprise, surprise-- net neutrality. This is a battle between billionaires and the cable companies aren't the only billionaires in the game.

Google gives millions to groups that -- surprise, surprise-- fight for "net neutrality". So does Netflix. What does "net neutrality" mean? We shouldn't be surprised that these groups fight to make it easier for Google and Netflix to make money without having to share it with the cable companies. This is how business is done. The only thing naive about this article is that it pretends that only the cable companies are astroturfing. The EFF is one big astroturf factory for the Google.