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> I would say the defining property of OO, is polymorphism. Make it dynamic polymorphism, and I agree.

> Also, why shouldn't services be responsible for users using their service to abuse others? Because I like Hacker News. If Hacker News was responsible for the posts of its users, …

Small investment, tiny chance of success, huge payoff iff successful. It is the lottery of applications.

They might, indirectly. OpenSSH would seem like a good candidate for funding from the Core Infrastructure Program.

I agree. The middle class of other parts of the world catching up to rising US[ ] is a good thing from any perspective except for the most cynical realpolitik subscribers. Even fro…

Both, as they provide the bulk of the code. It would be more illuminating to examine where the unpaid volunteers contribute. My guess would be device drivers, but I don't know.

Doesn't it pretend? The screenshoot shows very old movies. My initial impression from the web site was that this application provided a nice interface to some repository of freely …

I really wish for a -Weverything flags that would enable all warnings, even the stupid, useless ones. I'd then put -Wno- to disable those.

Microsoft has been distributing GPL2 software before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

Yes, Danish seems to be in between German and English, except for the first example. die/der/das -> [see below] -> the drei -> tre -> three Donner -> torden -> thunder Ding -> ting…

That means Google (the makers of Ingress) will get access to the list of contacts I have stored in Google Contacts. I believe I can live with that :-)

Seen from Russia, there is a power struggle between EU and Russia about border drawing between their respective empires. Thinking in "empires" is popular in Russia. So seen from Ru…

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/610/

Tire burning is not really large scale destruction. From the livejournal entry: 1."They destroyed the whole city" Not true. All of the action you see in the pictures are happening …

I don't understand a word you are saying.

This is why Google did the right thing tying their reviews to their social network. If I know the person doing the review, I can put it in context. There are people whose opinion o…

> A free "social" site It is not a free service. You pay for it with your personal information. It is up to you whether you find the price too high. And with the Google+ integratio…

It is kind of fun how the failures didn't have to be. IBM did successfully enter and even define the PC market. Microsoft saw the threat of the Internet, and reacted swiftly to own…

I'd give Larry McVoy most credit of the three. He worked at TeamWare, which was the first DVCS, at least the first I have heard of. I don't know how much credit goes to him specifi…

Thanks, that was my initial reaction as well. I'd have expected it to be a few enthusiasts, maybe something like 50.000 worldwide. 1.85 % of the Steam user base is more than a mill…