movement with real impact ... shut down before it accomplished anything

I think I spy an oxymoron.

The browser picks size X. A simple implementation would hard-code a single X; a more advanced implementation would combine experimental evidence about the statistical properties of PJPEGs, the measured latency, the decode progress...

If your job is to process a formally defined struct, you are not going to review the struct in an attempt to change the standard.

The developer who wrote this code also wrote the spec, as part of his PhD research. To me the more worrying aspect of this whole affair is that OpenSSL accepted into the trunk an extension which at the time hadn't even reached "Proposed standard" status (and still doesn't seem to have progressed beyond it).

I don't think it needs to know in advance: the decode is probably faster than the network transfer, so it can request it in batches of size X, decode each batch while the next one is being transferred, and at worse fetch just under 2 batches more than it needs.

Should be possible to do it with range requests, surely? But it's a chicken-and-egg problem, because there's no point adding the overhead of testing whether the server supports ranges until PJPEG is more widespread, and the current status quo doesn't seem to motivate many people to use PJPEG.

Bear in mind that the article is about a 1 year extended support contract. They still have to migrate away to something, this is just a delaying tactic.

What's that got to do with it? You can install .Net 4 on XP, but it isn't fully compliant with the spec. For a start, it doesn't provide all of the documented cryptography primitives.

Interesting. Which airlines do you fly with? I mainly fly Ryanair or EasyJet, and they don't assign seats unless you pay. (I'm not sure, but I half suspect it's a ploy to make people get to the gate early so that they can be at the front of the queue). It's a while since I flew Air Nostrum, so I can't remember how they do it.

I don't think you're familiar with European budget airlines. You can choose your seat when booking if you're willing to pay extra. Maybe a dozen people per flight have reserved seats, and the rest work on the basis of first come, first served.

I'm no longer in the world in indie game development, but I didn't understand it all, and some of what I did understand what complete tosh. "Everyone knows everyone"?! Nonsense.

I'm pretty sure they created it for Google, not for TIME.com.

You missed one: to quote Jeff Hammerbacher,

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

Her PhD is in philosophy. However, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, so we should all still be pretty worried.

Java 8 sort-of has unsigned types.

"New" is an important qualifier in the summary, because Java has had a Javascript engine since version 6, which included Rhino.