Not a huge fan of this origin story. I'm personally waiting for the Brian Singer reboot.

All your little anecdote proves is that someone wrote some bad code, even if it was well-documented. I've seen plenty of unreadable C, Perl and Python, to say nothing of Java or .NET. Object orientation can be very clean, and it can be very dirty if you don't know what you're doing or don't care.

No kidding. If they mismatch impedances, the eye's on those potatoes will close.

As long as you have enough space in your creep colonies...

We read the article, just not before we comment. Usually I middle-click to open the article in a new tab, then read the comments. That way I know which parts of the article to indignant about when I get to them.

I believe that set is disjoint with the set of all instagram users.

Apparently, you need to put a magic word "porn" in your search query.
'blowjobs' gives you the results you saw
'blowjobs porn' gives exclusively the results you were looking for.

At least the rest of us aren't making inappropriate penis jokes.

Wrinkles, like hair, are a conserved quantity.
Everybody knows that as you get older, hair travels from the top of your head and starts coming out of your nose and ears.
In much the same way, wrinkles travel out of your brain and collect on your face and neck. By the time you reach your 80s, your face looks like something out of a movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel, but that brain inside is smooth as a baby's bottom.

It's not purely functional unless it's written in Haskell.

The switch from 32 to 64 is a lot less painful than 16 to 32, because the memory model didn't change.

Even if you are writing in C, most code is probably fairly agnostic to 32- vs. 64-bit. But if you do things like cast pointers to ints, or use byte-based arithmetic when interacting with structures or unions, then you'll run into trouble. C code that conforms to the standard should be fairly portable from 32 to 64 bit, though, and this is yet another situation where the value of the standard and well-designed code pays off.

It's not just about memory, it's also about an enhanced instruction set that includes extra registers, addressing modes and the removal of some old x86 cruft.

I would share my method, but it only works for a spherical turkey in a vacuum.

I want to go through one of the scanners right now. Just to show the TSA how happy I am :)

When people predicted "The Singularity" I always assumed it would be some sort of emergent intelligence in complex systems. Not a pseudo-sentient bureaucrat that shits TPS reports. May god have mercy on us all...