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abjuk··on California Senate overwhelmingly passes SB 277, abolishing most opt-outs
The problem is that the word "may" covers a wide range of probabilities. Yes, there is a small but non-zero chance of adverse reactions to the vaccine. But it's orders of magnitude less dangerous than contracting one of the diseases it prevents.
abjuk··on A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5
This. Also, a year ago Apple was still selling some models of the 4th gen iPod Touches, which are the equivalent of a three year old iPhone 4 but with half the ram.
abjuk··on Android Support vs iOS Support
I've been forced to do this by a publisher and did not feel good about it at all. To be fair, though, it was a quick port of a flash game that was completely unplayable on the 3gs and not fun on the 4.

A quick search will bring up tables of which device requirements will disallow which devices, so it's not an unheard of practice. But nobody is excluding potential customers out of spite, it's because the older harware genuinely can't handle the apps.

abjuk··on The problem with vim
Most IDEs let you set a hotkey to run the current file through an external program (I generally use Ctrl-Shift-V to open in Vim) as well as a setting to automatically detect and reload a file that's been changed outside the IDE. It's not perfect integration, but it works pretty well once you're used to the workflow.
abjuk··on YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim
You need at least version 7.3 patch 584, which is fairly recent. You can check with :version.