Most boring story ever?It's not even the most boring story today. Gears of War 3 released is - derivative sequel of derivative sequel of original that fails to be anything more than just another FPS with nothing to distinguish it from any other example in a crowded genre.

A compacting GC is often a win over naive manual memory management - they improve cache coherency and speed up dynamic allocation. Of course, using smarter allocation techniques (small object pools etc) instead of general purpose allocators (new/malloc) can provide even grater benefits to GC - but that's what Google were talking about when they said "extensive tuning efforts". In other words, a C# or Java application using GC can outperform a naive C++ application because of, not in spite of, GC. The worst case is when somebody decides that every dynamic allocation belongs inside a shared_ptr *shudder*.

Sounds more like misconduct in public office.

We can't evaluate the methodology because the methodology hasn't been published. From what we do know, neither the testing nor the data released was objective - the tests compared bleeding edge releases of IE9 to an obsolete versions of Chrome, and the data they chose to publicise focussed on the single areqa in which IE9 triumphed, despite it performing poorly in other areas.

What language makes the most sense now to get the jobs?

C#

I've deliberately omitted .NET — I have no desire to do the Microsoft languages.

Are you interested in which language makes you most employable or not?

Transportation and long term storage of hydrogen is problematic *on Earth* because of the presence of oxygen in our atmosphere - that's not a problem in space or on Mars.

It says five months of maternity leave with full pay. In the UK, it's 6 weeks at 90% salary, 33 weeks at £124.88 or 90% of salary (whichever is lower) and 13 weeks unpaid. Google's terms are much, much better than most of Europe. There are exceptions - but only a handful (Lithuania gives 100% salary for 52 weeks + 85% for 52 weeks - but that's almost twice as generous as the next best).

Most heterosexual couples wait several years in between starting their relationship and getting married - during which period they won't be entitled to this perk, but homosexual employees will. It's not really a problem though - more like replacing a discriminatory policy with a small effect with another discriminatory policy with a tiny effect. Not an especially big deal, but certainly a big enough deal to make the grandparent's "give me a fucking break" unjustified.

Put a sock in it. Your government discriminates against unmarried people of all sexualities, Gogole discriminates against unmarried heterosexual people.

I think what happens is that health benefits to your spouse are tax free. Health benefits to your partner to whom you're not married are not - and gay couples can't get married. Of course this screws over the non-married heterosexual couples - maybe Google should just pay the tax for everyone who gets charged it.