I heard of a great website to find such things easily: http://www.google.com/

But basically they are filters that makes contemporary shitty photos taken by smartphones look like 70s shitty photos taken by polaroids, which are considered not shitty anymore because well I don't know, hipsters I guess

And a sperg (an offensive diminutive for "aspergers") is someone who cares way too much about minutiae that nobody else cares about. Hackers are people breaking into computer systems. It's what everyone calls them, it's how everyone understands the word.

Language evolves. Get over it.

And it works incredibly well. The TGV had several high speed derailment that all caused only minor injuries.

It includes the world's fastest derailment at 294kph (182mph) where only one person was slightly injured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_accidents

It's also a matter of trust, I think.

Wikileaks works because its sources trust it to keep their identity secret. If there was a breach of confidentiality, this trust would evaporate and people would stop leaking confidential material through wikileaks.

In france when we want to use a shorter word we say "borne" (ie "marker", as in the markers every km on the side of the road), although people say kilomètre just as often. I never really thought of it as being a mouthful, maybe we're just used to it.

Does it says "your business is appreciated" in a robotic voice once you're done?

April's fools is not about making jokes, it's actually about trolling. Slashdot's strategy of spamming rubbish fake news is actually quite effective for that, as people whine about it in every thread.

I'm enjoying the comments from behind my longer and bigger amount of karma that makes slashdot offers me the option to be rid of the ads intended for lesser beings.

If C# is more cumbersome, then perhaps there's a way to make it less so while keeping flexibility and power.

I only can see two clear advantages to c# over c++: garbage collection and reflection. Everything else boils down to syntactic preferences or minor features. And there's a lot of useful things that c# is missing compared to c++.

I'm sure in time both things will make their way into C++ in a way or another (garbage collection is half-way there).

I don't think that D is a good answer to the shortcomings of C++. I'm not a fan of the "let's add in everything and the kitchen sink" approach.