When I was trying to learn a more system level languages from higher level ones like Smalltalk, I found Makefiles to be archaic. I was delighted when IBM introduced what they called Configuration files on VisualAge C++ (PDF) (see Chapter3. An introduction to configuration files). It was easy to manage and the integration with the IDE was great (one of the first C++ IDEs I really liked). But the configuration files were hated by the people used to the Makefiles, it wasn't well received. As an newbie at that time with C++, I loved them, today I can tolerate Makefiles but they are more archaic now than before.

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
  Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

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Will their lives be in danger every second, simulating a real hostile world with a the delay to save them taking months to arrive? If that isn't simulated I don't see them being stressed enough to get some kind of madness, living in closed quarters is not enough to make people go crazy

Well, the ART preview native compiler on Android 4.4 is on device so it could compile to native on the device, but I expect Google will accelerate that step precompiling on their servers taking into account device characteristics. Microsoft could do that too if they want

Android 4.4 KitKat is using ZRAM on low memory devices, apparently they managed to get good results out of it to use it on final production devices

You don't activate airplane mode before a presentation? How rude!

Yes, XWayland can be compared to an X Server running on Windows or over OS X, it translates X to the native display, in this case Wayland

I don't know why you had to reimport your projects. I have an Eclipse workspace from the 2.x era, that have never been replaced by a new one, every Eclipse update is pain free with my settings, plugins need to be updated if they aren't compatible, but the workspace with the imported projects have never been a problem for me

Jolla Sailfish OS use systemd

The Play Store, it is the #1 application OEMs need, unless you are a Chinese OEM where you have a big market with established alternative stores. And Android device without the Play Store is like a Windows Phone without applications. Amazon store is a joke for OEMs because it is only available in selected markets and with the current economics of hardware manufacturing, you win money only at large scales, selling only on Amazon markets will not work for them

Simple technical solution implemented in my country without insecure remote kill switch: force telephony providers to share stolen phone IMEI numbers, and block those phones on their networks. Changing IMEI number is possible, but it is beyond most thiefs knowledge, and if they know how to change it for a particular phone model, they will now how to remove the killed flag on the phone

Do you think your browser is secure? every Firefox and Chrome feature releases contain critical security fixes and I don't hear people giving them the same treatment Flash get. I am not a Flash fan, but It is not fair how browser vendors are not blamed too for their bugs with the same emotion people talk about other technologies. Every time a Slashdot post talk about a new browser release never mention the security bugs, only the nice things

There is no reason to assume he/she said that iostream.h is GPL as an hypotheses because he was affirming that there is no way to use GCC and create non GPL programs. It was a bad example and wrong assumption not an hypotheses

No. I said "wrong" because his assumption is wrong:

After using GCC and linking against libstdc++, your binary nor your code becomes GPL