This made me laugh. That was my reaction as well.

Yes, so simple. http://dorey.github.io/JavaScr...

I didn't whine about how I didn't care, nor did I ever say that I didn't care.

I asked how it was "news for nerds." Because unless I'm missing something, it isn't.

Yeah. Thanks for that intelligent commentary.

This is interesting news, but what is of interest to nerds about it that wouldn't be of interest to anyone?

Am I missing something here or is Slashdot being stupid about story selection again?

Come on, /. editors. Seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion

Nonsense. That is what assertions are for. Assertions are not meant to be caught, and should be used to throw an (uncaught) exception upon detection of a programming error, i.e., an internal consistency check. Regular exceptions, on the other hand, are for handling exceptional cases encountered in the process of execution (such as file-not-found or unsupported-format).

They will probably add exceptions in 1.1 or 2.0. They're pretty imporant.

The problem it solves is Objective-C having a steep learning curve and, more importantly, people having a kneejerk reaction to its odd syntax.

In other words, Swift will have a wider appeal to people than Objective-C. And that means more developers for iOS, which in turns means more money for Apple.

I call BS on your assertion. Either that, or you can't be serious. A "few orders of magnitude" is like 4 or 5 or 6, but let's say for the sake of discussion that you mean the lowest possible value of "few," which would be 3. That's still 10^3 = 1000. And then you say "more than a few orders of magnitude," which would mean at least 10^4 = 10,000. In any case, there's no way that the dollars per square meter spent on a runway at an airport is 1000x— let alone 10,000x — more than that spent on public roads.

2560x1600.