I remember reading some Piranha Club strips, were Santa and some spying elf sent a mechanical cockroach to spy on Spencer.

I wonder if they have that comic strip in Russia?

It's weird, I think, that here in Europe where we have "nanny states" that takes care of us citizens so much, people are expected to be able to handle themselves and be responsible. While in the USA were people expect as little involvement from any kind of government authority expects the pampering and as little personal responsibility as possible.

I just hope they remove all the dihydrogen monoxide.

learned how to make soap

And blowing up buildings?</fightclub>

It's still under development, but it looks like it could be fun once finished:

http://cityboundsim.com/

C, C++ and Go are the dominant languages on Linux. Rust has made no inroads here.

Wait what? How long have I been away? Nobody told me that Go is a dominant language on Linux, or anywhere for that matter.

Not that it would be a big problem anyway. Remember that large parts of the Netherlands is below sea level, and they manage it pretty well. Why wouldn't anyone else be able to handle it?

Without roads, work won't be within walking distance.

Don't Americans these day take the car just to get to the other side of the road?[/sarcasm]

Also, what is "walking distance"? It seems people in the western world barely are capable of walking a mile these days, but it wasn't that long ago that people regularly walked ten miles (or more) daily, roads or no roads. I personally walk to and from work (over four miles total) every day, and would still do it even if there were no roads.

I have a baby-seat fitted in the back seat on the right side. It gives me a huge blind spot when changing lanes or turning right.

I guess it can be made transparent too, but what about the baby sitting in the chair? Or other passengers in general?

Yes, making the pillars transparent (or removing the m completely) will make it better, but as long as other people are non-transparent (and as long as drivers never turn their heads!) there's always going to be blind spots.

Node.js - written in C with a few x86 and ARM assembler bits

Uhm, it uses the Chrome v8 JS engine which is written in C++.

Maybe finally we will get Mockolate®!

You mean besides Blender not being a generic video editing program like, for example, Pitivi?

claims he was using both tablets

Well he did use both tables, one as a stand for the other.

Speed isn't all that it used to be. 30 years ago you wrote games in assembler, 20 years ago in C, and 10 years ago in C++. Today? You can write a game that looks as good as the best games did ten years (or less) ago in Java Script or other purely interpreted languages. With JIT languages (like Java and C#) you can even rival other modern games.

Speed was an issue with processors in the low MHz range, with todays multi-core, multi-GHz beasts with dedicated graphics hardware you don't need to code everything in assembly for speed, it's going to be fast enough anyway.

Yeah, like a special zone you could say what you want in. I know, lets call it a Free Speech Zone.