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Applets were always the answer. Amazing how badly a technology can fail because of start-up time.

Proof is a word that shouldn't be used lightly. I don't think anyone would see this as proof that quantum foam doesn't exist. The laws of physics allow for quantum foam to happen, …

The article is a bit dodgy in this regard. It just means that at a quantum level, the energy fluctuations (as observed in this experiment) are not big enough to cause significant s…

Perhaps I'm tired, but how can the Japanese life expectancy figure be higher when considering fatal injuries?

Last time I checked in C, all pointer types where the same storage size. There's no need to define the same data structure multiple times by using templates. You just use casts.

What's so confusing about the term virtual machine? It's an abstraction of the underlying machine.

Also known as: embarrassingly parallel problems.

Java is a language for people good at resisting temptation. It gives you all sorts of ways to make your code look nicer, more elegant, but the only way to be productive in Java is …

Last noteworthy S3 outage was in 2008.

I never quite understood fitness. I bought some weights 2 years back and found a light exercise routine I like enough to do it daily. Works like a charm.

> today’s programmer can even go so far as to question the usage of malloc In old school or new school C, there's every reason to minimize the use of malloc and it's easy to avoid.…

Well, if the money supply kept up perfectly with economic growth then the value of money would stay the same. Inflation is extra money supply expansion.

1.5 cents for a simple function call?

If you fall deep you have a long way back up. It's worth nothing that Ireland still out-performed Iceland over the past 10 years.

People who don't get college, don't get college.

The website in question might not have proper Cache-Control headers, so the page may have never gone into the cache.

I don't see any reason to reinterpret this as an anti-government pamphlet. It's just pointing out that economic conditions and mentality are changing around the world, but that thi…

Come on you incorrigible pessimists, lighten up. There is obviously some tongue-in-cheek and inaccuracies in the article, but also some profound truth. This is the greatest time in…

Don't be evil.

The industry is still growing faster than the number of computer science graduates. Don't wait for it.

No one represents a lot of people, but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people holding off on upgrading to iOS 6.