What's the difference between a mathematician and a large pizza?

A large pizza can feed a family of four.

As several earlier posts point out, the objectivity of Kraken is in question. Indeed, the Mozilla blog post says nothing about the substance of the benchmark. Why should we believe that this is a "step in the right direction"?

Some research has recently been published about the characteristics of popular JavaScript programs: An Analysis of the Dynamic Behavior of JavaScript Programs. At the end of the conference presentation, the first author (Richards) said that he was working on developing JavaScript benchmarks based on their analysis. I'd be curious to see how Richards' benchmarks compares to Kraken.

I believe co-operative education (coop) is an excellent way for young people to get a head start in their careers.

I'm enrolled in a coop program (Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo). Although I'm only in my third year of studies, I have accumulated 12 months of software-development work experience (working for General Electric Healthcare and Autodesk M&E).

Certainly students enrolled in non-coop programs can graduate with relevant work experience (e.g., summer internships). Schools with coop programs, however, tend to facilitate the job-finding and job-application processes.

In Canada, some schools with well-known coop programs are the University of Waterloo, École de Technologie Supérieure, and Université de Sherbrooke. I'm sure there are many such schools in the United States.