C? Compiled with clang? Or maybe more than one algorithm?

Wow, they compared a whole four languages: C++, Java, Go and Scala, of which, C++ is the fastest. Is this seriously a surprise to anyone?

iRiver -- The MP3 player that predated the iPod...

The iMac was the start of the 'i' trend, not the iPod.

Asus EEE T101MT-EU37-BK

Holy shit, that's a real model name? Jesus Christ.

You can represent the same number with different glyphs. It's better said that 1 and 0.999... represent the same number. Just like how 1/3 and 0.333... are different representations of the same number. Or how 1000 and 8 are different representations of the same number.

Numbers are abstract concepts. We represent them with a standardized system, sure. But at the end of the day, we can represent them however we want. It just happens that the most useful representation is a standardized one.

I'm a software engineer, and even I'm not interested in any of that crap. I have a life outside of tweaking shit on my phone.

Yes, because the "static" keyword hasn't been overloaded at all.

It's called iOS. Also, Mac OS X has sandbox-exec(1).

Except for the fact that Israel is accountable to the free world.

The United States has never threatened to yank the Israeli Defense Fund, and if it did so, it would be an empty threat. They enjoy an accountability-free existence. Sure, Europe pisses and moans, but the United States' veto power on the UN Security Council virtually guarantees that there will never be any UN sanctions on Israel.

Oh, and interesting factoid. No Israeli soldier has ever been prosecuted for the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Ever.

As a society, we are more afraid of flying on planes than we are of riding the subway. So we've exchanged our freedoms for what we perceive as security.