For me, it was five weeks ago. :-) (But it wasn't for x86[_64] or ARM...)

The ones like GCC and clang that saw continued improvement over the last decade, definitely. The 2000-era Metrowerks compilers I'm using to indulge my classic Mac OS fetish, not so much. It's trivial to beat the 68K compiler, even without being clever.

In most cases, my code was already platform-independent, so I leave the C/C++ implementation in place guarded by preprocessor conditional directives.

What about playing not on a cloud service? I loved the original Starcraft and its Brood War expansion, but I opted to avoid Starcraft 2 due to its online-only requirement.

(I never did finish Brood War's Zerg campaign; any time I want to spend on RTS gaming can go toward that.)

One man's pain is another man's pastry. Especially if he's French.

Yeah? Why don't you write about it in your blag?

The only reason you'd be attacking PHP is so you can hide your own foolish design mistakes. Why don't you tell us what those are? WHAT ARE YOUR CRIMES?

Godwin's Law applies just as well to programming language advocacy: If your defense of a language requires pointing out that it's Turing-complete, you lose the argument.

And specifically an ill-tempered one. :-)

Posting "Me too!", like some brain-dead AOL-er? :-)

Actually, THINK Pascal did syntax highlighting on black and white Macintosh systems. It used different styles, such as boldface, instead of colors.

Really? I thought it was a reference to the 'Marklar' episode of South Park.

Lawsuits don't necessarily amount to mutually assured destruction for large companies, so it's not a failure of MAD.

It's a case of iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Usually, companies will cross-license each other's patents, since cooperating is cheaper than suing each other. But if, say, Apple believes the expected damages from an infringement suit against Google (minus the cost in PR and legal expense) outweigh the benefits of peaceful coexistence, then it makes sense (from their perspective) to sue.

YouTube? You can use Video DownloadHelper with Firefox, or one of the command-line equivalents.

But thou must!

Ferrous?

Can you explain why these agreements refer to "express" warranties? It should go without saying that the opposite of "implied" is "expressed", and "express" as an adjective only applies to transit routes, as far as I know.

Seeing lawyers unable to accurately express themselves without garbling a fairly common word doesn't instill confidence in their command of the more esoteric parts.