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wmobiton Why C++ is vastly superior to C

The containers problem is the only one I find really annoying, and is more of a problem with the C standard library than the language. Using C with something like glib is a much nicer experience.

wmobiton 52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right

That's not how theories work. A scientific theory is more like a framework and not really the same meaning as what people usually mean by theory (which is closer to hypothesis). Also nothing in science can ever be 100% definite; the term law shouldn't really ever be used.

wmobiton Collect HN: Aprils Fools

Milkyway@Home on iPhone / iOS. The small tests that run on my desktop in about 10 seconds take 20 minutes on my iphone 3g, and drain the battery about 8%.

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2303

wmobiton Why Some Elite Colleges Give Away Courses Online

Apple didn't open source LLVM. It started independently of Apple. Same with WebKit; it was KHTML.