Well it's certainly not a science as the scientific method is nowhere to be found. The closest thing to it at most universities is the math department, which seems to end up in the arts faculty as often as not. I'd argue there's widespread acceptance that neither math nor computer science are sciences (in the sense that, say, physics or biology are), and if something isn't a science, it's either an art or its own thing.
This is so laughably wrong as to be absurd. Your explanation for Canadian telecom entrenchment and protectionism is that it's anti-American? Canada and its provinces have imported America's love of faux-competition in media, telecom, electricity, non-health insurance, and other areas nearly whole hog.
Anti-Americanism also runs contrary to Canada's: plans to imprison more of its population; paying extra for ill-performing military hardware; treating its First Nations like shit; increasing gap between rich and poor; busting of unions; beating the hell out of protestors; resisting all meaningful measures against climate change; and fighting pointless wars.
Canada could use some of this "we're different from the Americans" attitude that you claim pervades the nation. Sadly, I don't see much evidence of it in any of several areas of society, especially the telecom industry.
If I recall, the issue with a public 0mq socket was that anyone driving by sending something 0mq didn't like would cause an assertion to fail, so your process would crash. It wasn't so much a "supposed to be exposed" as "expose it and crash".
Perhaps Apple thinks different by being better, not just different for the sake of being different. I think maybe you're giving evidence for, not against, the post you replied to.
If I could, I would answer "As little as possible". If there's anyone building towards scripts that will, say, build an app and run it in the iOS simulator without using Xcode, I'd love to dive in and help out. Otherwise, someday I'll get to writing them.
This puzzle is mentioned in the lovely documentary Wordplay[1], which ostensibly follows a cadre of competitors in a year of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Well worth a watch, and I believe it's on Netflix.
You can certainly use the client for plain ol' Git. The GitHub-specific stuff is a "Push to GitHub" button on repositories that aren't already on GitHub, and a list of your GitHub repositories.
It's more than useful without ever using GitHub the web service/site.
I was looking into turns-into-whiteboard paints/stickers recently and turned up a handy comparison of various surfaces and their whiteboard-ability. Turns out washing machines and dryers often work great, though are likely impractical.
Any word on whether this affects version 2 of Skype for Mac OS X (the old one), the current Skype 5.1, or both? Neither the article nor the linked blog post would say.
If the former, I don't imagine they'll update it, and this might finally force me to grab 5.1.