May it rot in Redmond.

Coding falls into the realm of software engineering, not computer science. The teams of coders that develop a web site are, by no stretch of the imagination, computer scientists.

Bigly. Very bigly.

Not if you are well versed in cosmology.

Paraphrasing the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, "Well, they would, wouldn't they?"

Well, they are gains nevertheless. This aside, you really have to be revolting if working for Zuckerberg.

We already have Xitter, which most certainly lives up to its name.

It's another incremental step forward; one of many more that will be required before a QC can be developed that is able to do anything of practical interest that cannot be done by digital computers at least as efficiently and far more easily and cheaply.

Human empathy is a trait that this bastard never developed.

I came to the conclusion long ago that the members of the Gnome team are a bunch of lunatics living in some La-La-Land of their own.

How come they managed to irritate so many of their former users, to the point that they ditched the environment? How come it has not been able to get much traction in ten years or so, in spite of the fact that it has been aggressively pushed by the likes of Red Hat and Ubuntu? How come its impact on the mobile world has yet to be felt? Is it a coincidence that presence of Linux in the desktop remains negligible with Gnome 3.* as its flagship?

People often have two reasons for doing something: a good reason, and the real reason. In this case, the good reason is religion, while the real reason is the chance to exact some revenge for historical injustices.

It is just the native Hawaiians using the excuse of religion to stick it to the man. You can hardly blame them, bearing in mind how they have been treated historically. It is a safe bet, however, that if the political circumstances were different - e.g. if it were entirely up to native Hawaiians how things would be run in that location - the religious objections would disappear.

I have no love for Apple but I am skeptical that whatever is going on justifies that its stock should be punished like that. Investors are a hysterical bunch with a sheep-like mindset. It makes for a depressing thought the fact that such idiots have a big influence on the global economy. Bloody buffoons, always at the core of self-fulfilling negative prophesies.

Actually, this was discussed already in the 1990s. Richard Muller used it to formulate his 'Nemesis hypothesis', whereby some large body on a (very ) long orbit kind of perpendicular to the ecliptic, would be behind such events. I don't think this gained much traction though.