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ACM ICPC previous problems are also interesting.

http://icpc.baylor.edu/info/Problem+Resources

In it's heyday smalltalk VM performance was far behind C,asm,etc. As a result it never gained much traction. Once it became practical to run/use VMs the smalltalk legacy had been tainted by C/C++ and thus java.

From a supremely cynical view point this is a good thing. It is yet another step towards making living in the west impossible for the middle class.

Of such things are revolutions born.

It is terrible that we still need war/strife/etc to push ourselves out of complacency.

A blanket statement for a fairly specific use case seems irresponsible.

It seems too specific a technology to learn in school. Time in that class might be better spent in a more fundamental area.

Seems odd that universities would have a class on flash at all.

Is it odd that it is a picture of a tweet instead of a clickable thing?

This headline grossly misstates the content of the post. Apple wanted a closed source front end that could be linked with the open source gcc internal/backend. At no point would the existing GCC code ever become proprietary under this flawed scheme.

LLVM is a square peg. If your project needs a square shaped peg then it will do amazing things for you. On the other hand if you want it to do circle shaped things you will feel the pain.

It seems as though someone read half an article about 99.999 uptime and decided to be clever.

The extra reaction mass is just a balance between the various costs. Building a new rocket per launch vs some constant factor off the top of your payload capacity.

>their monopoly profits and omniscience allows them to offer a product at a price point no competitor can match.

Mixpanel is still in business.

That is a good scene from Traffic.

It seems like HP had a good thing going. Then Wall Street decided HP should be making more money. This insatiable need for increasing profits then forced a group of people to make a series of increasingly bad decisions.

That is how it looks to me at least.

Chrome dev channel appears to get 100/100. There are a few odd things that flicker as it goes. It would be cool to see a play by play of the whole test.

Are people excited by search?

What is there to predict when the whole game is fixed? The article seems to acknowledge that the game is fixed but then continues on like it is not.

I found the link for a list of unrelated things 2 paragraphs in quite jarring.

I guess the best an attacker could hope for would be to modify the git binaries on the server. Even that would amount to little it seems.

I am on the chrome dev channel and have had zero problems. Hope this helps.

I will say one thing about industrialists; you only have to show them something once.

Wouldn't most of these ip addresses be in a bot net?

My understanding is that one of the jobs of congressional staffers involves sorting and analyzing these sorts of messages.

Meanwhile an actual crime was committed two blocks away.

In the golden days of media distribution (the 90s?) X amount if money was made. They will do anything to make X again and then after that anything to make more than X.

Can you stop a website that wants to save your password?

Every profession does not grant you the ability to send people to jail based on your word.

Police have a great deal of latitude in how they enforce the law.

Ever been to court when it was your word against a police officer? Who would you imagine the court, jury or your peers will believe?

It seems like this is a war whose outcome rest solely in the minds of the readers.