I also did not avert an internet meltdown in the 1980s.

Except most apps aren't well behaved, many will hold open wakelocks.

Oh and security- I may want to game my phone to someone and not allow him access to my previously opened banking app.

Oh and phones don't have infinite memory, so out means a delay in the future when you run out.

And it's different from how every other OS in the world works, and differences without good reason are confusing

It was a bad design mistake, probably their biggest one. They need to reverse it badly.

As an Android dev, that's wrong. The app remains running no matter how you leave it. It is only paused, not destroyed

That isn't exactly a great recommendation for him. Putting Ics on my nexus s made it much slower, removed usability from the browser, provided no useful new features, an ugly theme, and added pointless annoying eye candy. If that's what the teams about, keep them the fuck away from Android.

Actually, i'll correct myself- the Armenian thing was during the Ottoman Empire at the very end of it's life. Still, that part of the rule had a 500 year history of being tolerant. Western Europe has an under 100 year streak. So no, Christian zealots aren't any less dangerous than other religions when they have power.

Hell, if anything the Christians worry me more. They have a hell of a lot of them in the Southern US and they have the vote. That scares me a lot more than a few zealots in the middle east who can't get their act together to do anything of value.

Yes, except for the wholesale slaughter of Armenians and others. No, that's a bad example of living under Islam.

The Armenian slaughter was post-Ottoman. But if you want more up to date examples on the other side- it wasn't the Bosniaks (muslims) who started the wars in Yugoslavia.

How are you and the skirted women treated in the countryside?

I'm treated quite well. The people here are some of the most helpful I've met anywhere in the world. Even if they don't know english they'll help with signs and gestures. I had someone in Istanbul today help me time crossing a street in their crazy traffic without prompting (if you saw the traffic here, you'd know why that's needed help at times).

Harder to say for women, not being one. But I was deep in Anatollia in the countryside, in a town of 2000 people. Women dressed a bit more conservatively (more floor length skirts than minis), but I saw fewer burkas there than in Istanbul. And my mom was given no problems for wearing shorts.

And Islamic zealots, worldwide, are the majority of Muslims. Part of the reason is the whole crappy culture of Arabs. Most of the problem, though, is straight from Islam. It's a cult that kills those who leave, those who aren't members, and each other over how the cult should be run. It's mostly a clusterfuck.

Oh, so you're just your garden variety religious bigot, who's never been to the area or interacted with them in any meaningful way. Got it.

Except that historically the opposite is true. Try being a jew in the 1500s-early 1900s in western Europe. You're forced to live in a ghetto, limited in what trades you can do, and you get the occasional state sponsored pogrom or massacre. Want to know why there's no old synagogs despite the Jewish people having money? They were regularly burned.

Now look in the muslim Ottoman empire. You could work at whatever you wanted, live wherever you wanted, and even rise to a high level of respect in society. All you had to do was pay an extra tax.

Which of these two would you rather live in? So yes, right now Christianity is in a peaceful phase in most of the world (although not all), and Islam has some violent parts. Of course Islam has some peaceful parts as well- I'm currently in Turkey and religiously it feels like America. People wear what they want, you can have a girl in a short skirt standing next to a woman in a burka. They do the call to prayer, and it's pretty universally ignored. And nobody has suggested I convert, the biggest "imposition" has been for me to have to remove my shoes and wear long pants if I wish to see the inside of a mosque.

What will it be like in 20 years or 100? Who knows. But zealots will be zealots- there will always be those of all religions who wish to force their viewpoints down your throat. It will also have the peaceful who just want to live and let live. Marginalize the 1st group for all religions, and accept the second regardless of what their religion is, and society will be a decent place.

I don't know what you're smoking. Facebook as email? That's only if I don't know their email address (or vice versa) and it's only to ask for their real email. I've never gotten a facebook message of any importance.

Login via facebook? Sure, it's far more common than open id, but when I see a website start using it it's always to complaints from the user base, and usually the userbase shrinks by 50%. Facebook as identity is a joke.

I'm not saying FB isn't profitable or isn't a good business. But its growth is unmaintainable, and anyone buying their stock is taking on one hell of a lot of risk. I wouldn't buy it at 1/4 the price.

The ultimate TV hack, one that will make you the most infamous hacker in the US. Make it so that during the last quarter of the superbowl, the entire country gets rickrolled and are unable to return to the game. If it's a close game, wait til the very end (last year doing it on Brady's last drive would be perfect).

If you really filled 30 positions in 2 months, your problem is likely in hiring shitty programmers. A most companies I've worked at, we made offers to 10-20% of the people who interviewed. Unless you're doing 5+ candidates a day, and all offers are accepting, you're murdering that rate. Some of that may be better offers or more efficiency, but it sounds like you're hiring a lot of mediocre people to fill seats.