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Is an English translation of the original position paper available somewhere?

> If any American English native speaker has time on their hands, I'd be grateful if you can tell me the differences between my writings (you can click on my username for more samp…

"The new powers are supposedly intended to help the government combat the promotion of extremist videos promoting terrorism." As long as I see "This video was flagged by the UK gov…

If by "syntax compatibility" he means code that compiles in one version does not compile is another, that's definitely true. Name collisions with the new default methods in Java 8 …

He qualified it with "(of types)", so I believe he was talking about inheriting from multiple interfaces. People already had to be able to deal with "this thing is both a Foo and a…

> You should really avoid publishing incomplete benchmarks. If we had followed that advice, there never would have been a round 1. I was so uncomfortable with the idea that we'd be…

The Fortunes test exercises server-side templates. You can see the requirements for each test in the "Source code & requirements" section: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#se…

We are running several .NET tests on Windows. Some are using SQL Server as their database, too. See: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...

Vert.x was in our original batch of tests (round 1). At the time, its documentation showed that using the persistor and event bus was the standard intended mode of communicating wi…

Right. Related to this, I feel like a couple of frameworks are cheating on the plaintext test because they aren't actually testing string... serialization. They encode the "Hello, …

This is sort of getting off topic, but... I agree that annotations are magical. The good news is that they announce magic is happening. When I see unfamiliar annotations in Java co…

The best way to ensure Goliath is tested is to submit a pull request. We'd rather test Rails 4 than obsolete versions of Rails: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/i…

> But for me all this seems quite biased towards small Frameworks/Platforms. If one framework does less than another while still fulfilling the requirements of the test, then it ou…

You're right! Thanks, I'll get that fixed up in the next batch of edits.