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Thank goodness! Looking forward to the Pluto close-ups, which will hopefully include the dark spots.

Care to share some examples of dark energy evidence? If the evidence is a measurement of expansion, then it doesn't necessarily support the existence of dark energy.

> The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary.

I see similar lists for GCC when a branch is underway. I'm actually impressed with the number of active contributors, and I find the design very compelling. I'll be keeping an eye on this project.

This is extraordinarily useful and unique. My compliments to Backblaze for making this available. This is the type of empirical data I would love to have for as many things as possible: SSDs, monitors, TVs, kitchen appliances, tablets, cars, etc.

I just fired up a NodejsConsoleApp project in VS 2013, created a few simple functions, set a breakpoint, and started stepping through. To be fair, I assumed Edit and Continue would work like it works for other .Net or Native projects, or like the old VB or even VBA.

1) "Set Next Statement" doesn't work, which is a pretty big part of E&C

2) I could change code and literals without stopping and restarting the debugging session. Each change causes the current statement to jump to the top of the current function, or to the first line if modifying code outside of any function. Local variables are reset, but globals retain their state.

3) Interestingly, I could change code in a function that does not have the focus, and nothing is reset, then step into that function.

I remember seeing something similar when V8 was being demoed and showed a "live edit" capability, so I guess NTVS has similar functionality.

It short, it sort of works, but it's not the same as E&C for .Net (C# or VB), C/C++ native code, or Office VBA.

I'm hardly an MS fanboy, and I'm not sure what announcements you're referring to, but it's hard for me to see a downside to this.

Interesting move by Valve, and another positive step in support of Linux.

The fact that #1 and #2 are Chromebooks is worth mentioning. I found that surprising.

One of the mysteries of HN and how stories do and don't make it to the top. It seems to me there is more attention to tabloid type stories lately.

From the article:

"..It turns out that far from being a minor initiative to keep MariaDB alive, Google is actively patching and upgrading MariaDB 10.0 to be fit enough so that Google can migrate all of its thousand-plus MySQL instances onto the technology."