I was there on holiday last week; whilst I saw lots of military hardware in the parades, I must say that I didn't see any SAM batteries in Pyongyang (and we did a lot of driving around, and had a good look at it from the top of the Juche Tower and the revolving restaurant on top of the Yanggakdo).
We never ran any NeXT machines. There was no (and frequently continues to be, thankfully - we've got some good negotiators who manage to convince the customer that picking the language themselves is often not smart) customer requirement on language. As I recall, a number of candidate languages were examined as a replacement for C (which was what we were mostly using at the time) and the lightness of Obj-C, its Smalltalk-like object model and the ease of training newcomers to go from C to Obj-C, were amongst the reasons.
Hopefully the electronic edition will keep going for the foreseeable future; replacing its effect ourselves would be a real pain. Wikipedia just does not replace it; Wikipedia aims to presents consensus of sources on the web (even when it is broadly acknowledged that consensus is wrong), EB aims to present correctness.
Sounds like maths taught properly. Why not just do that instead?
As an aside, it is a watershed moment in any profession when the practitioners find themselves believing that their profession is so fundamental it should be taught to all children. Bravo, coders of the world :)
It should change in the regions of the world that will be affected by SOPA; rather than going dark, display a pseudo government notice about the site being closed to citizens, and below that give instructions on how you can circumvent it and see HN, in exactly the way people will circumvent SOPA when it arrives. People get to see HN, and awareness is raised, and everyone gets to learn how to circumvent it.
He didn't say "death toll" or "long term economic effects", he said "effort". The question posed is about the U.S. effort. Has the U.S. effort in Haiti been significantly more impressive than it was in New Orleans? If so,is it just because different authorities are involved? Presumably FEMA has no involvement in this one? Maybe lessons have been learnt from New Orleans?
In other news, eating bananas doesn't cure cancer, learning Arabic won't prepare you for a job as a SCUBA diver, and numerous other things don't do something they're not at all meant to do.
You've mistaken "hyper-competitive dickhead" for "CEO" and "authority figure".