You mean Harvard architecture?

> plugins

Finder doesn't have plugins, hence the accessibility API shenanigans necessary to get the same effect.

It does now https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...

Re: 1, 2, 3: Those are Linux problems, not Surface ones. There are types of hardware that Linux is just poor at supporting. It's up to Linux devs and the component manufacturers to fix that problem, not Microsoft.

I found it pretty easy to put Linux on my Surface Pro 2. The problem is that once it's on there, it kind of sucks. Poor hardware support, extremely poor touchscreen UI.

> there isn't a clean way to make 'unit types' (second, millisecond, meters, etc) in Rust..

Actually, there's this bit on Tuple Structs[1] in the tutorial:

> Types like this can be useful to differentiate between data that have the same underlying type but must be used in different ways.

  struct Inches(int);
  struct Centimeters(int);

[1] http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/tutorial.html#tuple-s...

Correct. It also needs a wall wart.

I'm guessing that's what the Wikipedia article means by "modern": able to work on most any surface, not just a special mat.

I think they're too distracted with the WinRT and its accompanying C++/CX silliness to properly focus on C++11. It feels like the 1st party platform got the priority in manpower.

Interesting. What are PostgreSQL's "fingerprints"? What makes it possible to tell a PostgreSQL derivitive from one based on another engine?

"GNU's Not Unix."

What does this even mean? The name GNU itself is a joke.

I mean, the project wants to create an operating system that looks like UNIX, acts like UNIX, smells like UNIX, but from scratch with appropriate license that allows usage and access to source to anyone - so that the project doesn't get into legal trouble from whoever actually owns UNIX?

So drunk Stallman in 1981 says: "hik, let's call this, hik operhikating system GNU, hik, because it's not UNIX hik, but it sure looks like one, hik, but it's not, hik, but it kinda is hik, but it's not theirs hik it's everyone's hik". That's how I like to imagine it happened.

Which is probably the greatest problem with it.

"How dare they tell people about the insecure API we wrote and how it works!"