Well, they already have Spanner, MySQL and Postgres. And that's just their relational database offerings. They have Cloud Bigtable too.

The GNU project's initial goal of producing a free Unix-like system has long been met. While of course maintenance and enhancement of the necessary components of GNU continues, what should be the project's strategic goal now?

My point was nothing to do with adoption - in fact I was pointing out that people used programming languages even when then did not intend to use or write a compiler for them.

Lack of a stack doesn't imply a machine is not a von Neumann architecture. For example, if I recall correctly, the Cray Y-MP series had no stack for procedure activation records and yet still had a shared instruction/data storage.

Your estimate is a bit too high. Plankalkül was developed between 1943 and 1945, and published in a paper in 1948. FORTRAN was implemented in around 1955. I ripped these dates from Wikipedia's History of programming languages article.

For that matter, Turing's famous and influential 1936 paper On Computable Numbers paper introduces an abbreviation system ("Inst{...}") for building Turing Machine configurations (on page 260) which might loosely be described as a higher-level language.
 

The city of Çatalhöyük existed from about 7500BCE with a large population (thousands). This is apparently several thousand years older than the wheel.

Are you actually looking for a new job? Doing what?

Drat, too much haste.

s/do different people/two different people/
s/The latter cares most about the privacy angle/The former cares most about the privacy angle/

If by "scares" you mean manufactured, misleading hyperbole, you're wrong. There are tens of thousands of adverse drug interactions annually in the UK (and more in the USA). Many of these are avoidable (they're not just drug-drug interactions, adverse drug-condition or drug-{age,procedure} interactions occur too) and key to avoiding this is delivering timely, accurate information to your healthcare providers.

Keeping yourself off the relevant clinical databases is a choice and a compromise of risks; on the one hand the risk that your data will be leaked and on the other hand that your choice to equip your clinicians with less information will cause you to get less effective treatment in the future.

In some senses this is a balancing of benefits to do different people; first, your healthy, vigorous, young self. Second, your elderly, sick, incapacitated self. The latter cares most about the privacy angle but I'm pretty sure the latter cares most about the quality of care. But it would too late for the elderly you to benefit their treatment by reversing the decision made by their younger self.

~/source/GNU/coreutils/coreutils$ git log | grep -c '^Author: Jim Meyering'
23652
~/source/GNU/coreutils/coreutils$ git log | egrep '^(Date:|Author: Jim Meyering)' | tail -n 2
Author: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat Oct 31 20:42:48 1992 +0000

That's a false dichotomy.

Google's infrastructure is too large to hire system administrators that do anything manually. This means even the "system administrators" are software developers.

The alternative to doing the research to identify which job opening appeals to you most is that they interview you for a job _they_ think might suit you, which isn't a good match for your skills, and so you don't get the job. Which one is it you prefer again?

Indeed, Google already published a paper describing their approach:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CA8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fspeed%2Farticles%2Ftcp_initcwnd_paper.pdf&ei=xUciTKhpmOiUB_HL8bAP&usg=AFQjCNET-zahhIxtRlXe28xn_8QSXXLx6A&sig2=0mlyaOW1btaj7hUjlL1Opw

Writing an allegedly Windows-compatible OS to resolve cyber-security concerns? Are they also developing lead aircraft?

If a major hospital is letting people roll up and connect personal (i.e. uncontrolled) laptops to their internal networks, the information security team/officer there is either incompetent or being ignored. They should take responsibility for making sure neither of those things is happening.

As for the OP, they seem to me to be recklessly endangering the security of patient data. People's personal laptops have all kinds of scary cruft on them. Seventeen different kinds of malware, if they run Windows, probably.

The Altos 586 I used to own also had a QIC tape drive in it (it's in the front of the unit). It also had an Ethernet connector - blanked off in the case of my machine, the Ethernet controller wasn't installed. But check yours.

The filesystem format is UFS and is intelligible by Linux (I verified this in the case of the 5.25" floppies, but the hard disk should be the same).