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Article severely lacks substance.

Rocket engines aren't considered jet engines ???

Can you "optimise" for crash tests? Like, say, software is optimised against specific benchmark to give good scores.

I find the methodology of the research to be solid, the collectors to be representative of the different approaches in the field and the conclusions to be consistent with the gut feeling from experience:

"With only three times as much memory, the collector runs on average 17% slower than explicit memory management. However, with only twice as much memory, garbage collection degrades performance by nearly 70%."

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

Right. Commit messages are not titles.

Commit messages ought to consist of a title, followed by an empty line and a short(-ish) summary.

Motivation is the goal. Discipline is the means.

I'd surely prefer churches to be relevant for 30-40 years than companies for thousands. shudder

I've been waiting for this all my life!

Just create a practically invisible watermark of your photos by, for example, subtly altering only one of the RGB channels

http://www.psdbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/4-blue-chan...