...which nicely demonstrates how hard it is to come up with good analogies. If I wrote a book, and you copied all my chapter titles for your book, be certain that I (or rather my publisher) would come after you. I put a lot of work into those titles after all.

APIs are different though. They are meant to be copied. You can't use them without copying them.

No, making the wrong choice makes you a murderer. At least 3 people are going to die no matter what you do. By not pulling that lever, you'll cause the death of another 297.

While MS wasn't hit too hard by this praticular bug, they have been hit by bugs in open source "core infrastructure" libraries before. Anyone remember this: http://www.geek.com/news/micro... ? Basically everything MS shipped had to be patched due to zlib being statically linked all over the place.

Anyway, lots of people run open source stuff on windows servers (well, some do at least...), and it's in the best interest of MS that those boxes are safe.

And last but not least, it's if not free so at least very cheap publicity.

I was watching a live stream of the match, which also showed the next moves suggested by Houdini. Interestingly both players were pretty consistent in selecting the highest ranked moves. The exceptions were the "blunders" which lead to Anand's defeat.

Hey, that's my retirement plan!

To be fair, Java will generally yell at you if you try to assign a timestamp to an int.

Probably does. It's not in my living room tho :)

Nah, that was 2011 or so. Right now i count 6 linux installations in my living room: two android phones, one tablet, this laptop, the tv and the pvr. Only one of those installations exist because i personally am a geek.

My 2 cents worth of data confirms your experience. My 3 last employers all moved to git from cvs or svn while i worked there. The first one was developing multi million LOC enterprisy stuff and ended up being bougth by Microsoft, which was ironic, until MS actually started supporting git themselves in tfs'12. How is that for closed sorce adoption? :)

You're not statistically significant.

Oooh! GregorianCalendar, my favourite java class!

<mode operafan="on"> And let's be honest, any other way to do it is just wrong. Go Opera! :)