Obligatory XKCD: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F606%2F

And you waited until NOW to mention this?

And another thing:

Firefox users ... will not be able to use their add-ons

Malicious add-ons can compromise user data

Which is it? Will add-ons be disabled across the board, or will add-ons run indiscriminately, unchecked by revocation lists?

I noticed recently that certain downloads to machines with old TCP/IP stacks and a mediocre wifi uplink were progressing much more smoothly than I was used to, with almost no collisions.

I was actually wondering if Comcast had done something to address congestion (before I knew of this story, I mean â" not confirmation bias), and it turns out that I'm in one of the pilot areas.

Oh, really? Because my first thought was "rat-fucked". :-)

For me, it was five weeks ago. :-) (But it wasn't for x86[_64] or ARM...)

The ones like GCC and clang that saw continued improvement over the last decade, definitely. The 2000-era Metrowerks compilers I'm using to indulge my classic Mac OS fetish, not so much. It's trivial to beat the 68K compiler, even without being clever.

In most cases, my code was already platform-independent, so I leave the C/C++ implementation in place guarded by preprocessor conditional directives.

What about playing not on a cloud service? I loved the original Starcraft and its Brood War expansion, but I opted to avoid Starcraft 2 due to its online-only requirement.

(I never did finish Brood War's Zerg campaign; any time I want to spend on RTS gaming can go toward that.)

One man's pain is another man's pastry. Especially if he's French.

Yeah? Why don't you write about it in your blag?

The only reason you'd be attacking PHP is so you can hide your own foolish design mistakes. Why don't you tell us what those are? WHAT ARE YOUR CRIMES?

Godwin's Law applies just as well to programming language advocacy: If your defense of a language requires pointing out that it's Turing-complete, you lose the argument.

And specifically an ill-tempered one. :-)

Posting "Me too!", like some brain-dead AOL-er? :-)

Actually, THINK Pascal did syntax highlighting on black and white Macintosh systems. It used different styles, such as boldface, instead of colors.

Really? I thought it was a reference to the 'Marklar' episode of South Park.

Lawsuits don't necessarily amount to mutually assured destruction for large companies, so it's not a failure of MAD.

It's a case of iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Usually, companies will cross-license each other's patents, since cooperating is cheaper than suing each other. But if, say, Apple believes the expected damages from an infringement suit against Google (minus the cost in PR and legal expense) outweigh the benefits of peaceful coexistence, then it makes sense (from their perspective) to sue.