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Respectable journalism calls this an "editorial stance". The Wall Street Journal has always been openly conservative in their bias that is most on display in editorials while they …

Electronic gambling machines are highly regulated because they deal with real money and random number generation. There are a lot of safeguards in that industry across various juri…

Steam dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time, about 5 years after Microsoft ended support for Windows XP and 2 years after support ended for Windows Vist…

> Video calls? Microsoft NetMeeting[0] was released in 1996 and actually included with Windows 95 through Vista > USB thumb drives? Windows 98 didn't have drivers for them, so they…

The Nexus One had preinstalled apps that could not be removed, specifically Amazon MP3, Twitter, and Facebook.

From the docs: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#i_%3CEsc%3... End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode. Finish abbreviation. Note: If your key is hard to…

Vulcan, DirectX 12, and Metal are basically like C. They're made to be as low level as possible while maintaining hardware portability. With the PS4 hardware is locked so their API…

C++ has std::valarray that has aliasing rules similar to the restrict keyword, allowing the same types of optimizations.

Unfortunately the only C++ comparison is with g++, which makes me wonder how much we're actually benchmarking the llvm backend versus the gcc backend. Perhaps even more interesting…

From their main page[1]: > Does Privacy Badger contain a "black list" of blocked sites? > No, unlike other blocking tools like AdBlock Plus, we have not made decisions about which …

You make a good point, but there is a faint odor of survivorship bias in "we all came out OK".

Thunderbird is "done". Mozilla's development efforts are limited to security and maintenance updates.

I am unique among the millions so far. It took me a moment to realize that means I am completely trackable. A little surprising since I just built this computer from scratch a coup…

The obvious problem with the multiple return paradigm is that Go returns: result AND error whereas it would make much more sense to return: result OR error After all, if the error …

Isn't this really just an ad homeniem? Would the author have the same reaction if it was made by Brewster Kahle, founder of the non-profit Internet Archive (www.archive.org)? After…