Man, the U.S. has been antagonistic to China, always. The only kind of "work together" the U.S. wanted was "work for us for free."

Lasers have inherent limitations no matter how powerful you make them due to divergence. The most powerful 300kW laser that has been made has a limitation of a few 10s of kilometers. A distance the hypersonic vehicle will cross in about 5 seconds. Put reflective and sacrificial armor on it and you've circumvented the only thing that could hope to stop it aside from a nuclear detonation on yourself.

Antagonize, mock, and threaten 1 billion people who are kicking your ass in academics, because you're scared they'll pull ahead of you, instead of working together so you both advance, and then you find out what happens... oops.

But the super secret code names apple has been stowing away, will bring them glory! Glory and Fame! All shall bow to the might of snapchat and their secret code names for things that no one wants!

Given the state of the laws on Technology, we should see that come to pass where Anonymity is legally banned. While other smaller companies may be able to set up shop, or you can deploy your own VPN somehow without tracing it to yourself, any public for profits will have to comply with the law. So this is a neat tech implementation that may not end up mattering much in the near future.

J2ME suuuuccccked. Google did the right thing to it. Meego was a nice beautiful UI on a lake of shit beneath it tied to boat anchor hardware, as hard as it is to accept. From talking with devs that created it, it was a nightmare inside created by various mixing of older distros and coding paradigms.

Geezus Krust, slashdotters love C. Leave it for lilnux kernel and your device drivers, keep it out of phone development, you'll make everything worse.

Only a fool or an expert would write a c backend to an app. And there aren't many experts...

I think you underestimate how badly devs can make apps even with native tools.

A lot of artworks require good welds. The artistic welders at my school practiced building dr seuss looking bikes. They were pretty amazing, multiple chain drives, really tall or really long. Very impractical, but they rode them around campus anyways.

20 years ago I was getting applications from Harvard, Yale Physics PHD recipients for tenure track positions that started at $30 K a year in the middle of nowhere for a teaching, no research no phd program school. It was bad then, and worse now. Its not basket weaving, its all academic positions really. Universities have also discovered that PHDs are not necessary to teach some subjects leading to masters degrees teaching at many smaller schools instead.

Dude is out to fucking lunch. Its like laughing at an alcoholics joke about being an alcoholic. It would be funny if he wasn't baked 24/7.

I once warned a manager at a smallish company that their fantasy of doing manufacturing would never happen partly because of a lack of QC and the lack of anybody with authority to shut a project down if it was not meeting spec. "We need that guy!" the manager said, and I came back, "If you had that guy you'd fire him the first time he told you something you didn't want to hear." Musk is in a pickle right now and I'm sure he really doesn't want to hear that the tank failed an X-ray inspection and the whole craft needs to be taken apart to make sure it's OK, thereby missing the launch window. And I'm sure the QC guy knows that. So as I warned that guy who once asked for my advice, this is what he got.

While I know Java doesn't inherently have to be slow and use excessive resources, I've never seen a significantly complex Java application that utilizes resources as expected. The CPU and memory usage is always a factor of 10X what I'd expect from a C++ application. I don't know the reasons as I'm not a Java developer, but I also don't find Java enticing enough to learn enough to find out.

Your boss is OK with this. They would rather have a 3rd grader without intelligence or ambition, than give you a raise.