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.

If the Wikipedia description of presidential vetoes is accurate, the checks and balances are as reasonable as in most Western democracies, and in particular they parallel the USA in requiring a supermajority of the legislature to overturn the veto. (As a point of comparison, the last president of the USA not to veto a bill was Garfield, and the last full-term president not to use a veto was Fillmore).

Good museum of Viking ships there, which they'd found sunk in the harbor.

And for anyone based in London who thinks that sounds cool, they've loaned one of them to the British Museum for their current exhibition about the Vikings.

"Direct payments to individuals" would seem to include your pay during those 40 years too. It's obvious to me that the wording is chosen to be deceptive.

But ultimately, they are separate for a reason. Otherwise, CS would just be another area of mathematics rather than a subject in its own right.

That's how it started. The first CS degree was Cambridge's Dip.Comp.Sci., taught out of the Mathematical Laboratory. I think that the best way to see CS is as an interdisciplinary subject which sits between pure maths, engineering, and psychology.

I suppose that for consistency you always refer to Nintendo as Marafuku and AOL as Quantum Computer Services?