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At first sight I thought it is sarcasm...

I guess the real reason could be that they try to sell ads on YouTube to advertisers with a competitive rate (compared to popular episodes) because they now can reach the targeted audience directly. The integration is somehow a "solid" evidence to advertisers.

asm.js is a better answer.

Many software development failures are due to lack of understanding and controlling the complexity given cost, people and time constraints. Processes helps the controlling part but sometimes gives a wrong illusion that things are under control and thus hurts the understanding part: people stop bothering to think. Building large software is really delicate work. You need to have a correct decomposition (thus to reduce the level of complexity) and have a good control of flexibility and complexity trade off on the component level. It is somehow like solving a formula with many parameters. You can not just look at one or two of them.

It doesn't work that way. In an autocratic country, behavior like this will eventually be rewarded even though they might pretend to punish it at first place. Every corrupted officer in China gets promoted later some time after they are exposed and "punished" if they keep their mouth shut.

In China your life is even easier: the government helps you keep and fill in the voting paper. And they are so efficient that you get the results 8 years before the "election" happens. Good thing is that Obama administration and US people are working hard to catch up. Don't worry!

The truth is all the good stuff you mentioned / believed in is not important or even irrelevant in a lot of contexts. Try to learn from him on judgement within a context, instead of sticking to whatever fancy things/rules you learn from a textbook or the internet.

This reminds me of a recent story on China's twitter alike website. A girl (actually a model) decided to start learning python. She kept posting progress, asking questions and sometimes a photo of her. A ton of coders followed, gave advice and answered the questions everyday. One month or two later the girl became someone's girl friend. He is probably the only non-coder guy among those followers.

I misread the titles as "Postmortem Programming" and clicked on it...

One thing for sure is that the list is too long to fit into NSA's hard drives. Proud to be a Chinese!

Use "I quit" to quit your job and use whatever the author tells you to get fired.

Not sure if you guys have noticed this "In 2006, he forgot to pay a $134 tax bill, prompting the city to place a lien on the home and add $183 in interest and penalties. His son paid the $317 bill in 2009, records show, but that wasn’t enough." His son did pay the tax later. I don't know how penalties/government fees are made and justified.

The company was actually Yahoo HongKong (the server is said to be hosted in the US). The order was sent by Department of National Security, through a representative of Yahoo in Beijing. There is no evidence indicating that Yahoo had ever fight for this.

Also the message leaked by Shi was just a guideline sent by the Department of Propaganda to all the newspapers/media companies. It is nothing similar to the Manning case.

Along with wearable and/or implanted devices and a little bit AI this could become the prototype of the Matrix...

Could it be related to CVE-2013-2251 which was released on 07/20? The URL developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action seems struts alike..

Yuan is strong because it is manipulated by the government that controls 1.6b people in a global market. But it is not sustainable because the bill printing machine is now obviously out of control.

FYI source code at https://github.com/mobrulesgames It seems to me the developers must have been working really hard and the failure is due to that the size of the project is way too large for the two person team. It is unavoidable and the dependency issue is just a symptom.

IMO this is some sort of clueless scapegoating. Dependency could be an issue in software development but only for large projects. A project with $28k funding and probably 1 or 2 developers, seriously? And no details like lines of code, libraries being used, etc makes it hardly plausible.

Health care in the US is the most broken one on this planet (I have been in Hong Kong and China). It is even worse than the communism countries like China. In China at least all the prices are listed before you decide to take the treatment. And the price is the same for everyone. Not to mention it is much lower than in the U.S. (abdomen sonogram is like $30 or less while in the US you can easily get billed $1200).

The ultimate solution IMO would be globalized free market just like the IT industry. If doctors and medical professionals from other countries can come to the US as easy as software engineers, I would expect the cost will go down to a level that we don't even need to be insured.

I found it quite amusing that in both countries people work really hard to exaggerate threats from the other country thousands of miles away while what most citizens care are broken health care, environment, getting a job and nonstop increasing taxes. I believe in China most of the attacks were for getting funds from the government. Not sure if it is the same in the U.S. but it does sound similar.

We used Erlang several years ago. The code base has ~100k lines of code so it should be representative. We abandoned it later and switched to C++ because of performance (mostly in mnesia) and quality issues (some drivers in OTP). We didn't expect too much from performance considering it is functional (which seldom does in place update) but it is still below expectation.

It is understandable though. Just think about how much resources have been put into development of Erlang VM and the runtime/libraries(OTP), and compare it with JVM/JDK. There is just no magic in software development. When talking about high concurrency and performance, the essential things are data layout, cache locality and CPU scheduling etc for your business scenario, not the language.

Sometimes I have a feeling that the US government is so good at being politically correct that the only thing they care is being politically correct.

The point is one should not be punished because he is unhelpful or stupid.