My company worked just like hamdingers describes until about 5 years ago. An x-box went missing at some point though.

My city semi-recently introduced a citywide parking system. They have hired plenty of inspectors and there is like 95% chance you will get a ticket if you don't pay for the parking.

No one breaks the rules intentionally anymore.

Jobs said so to Obama as well.

https://archive.ph/vGBjd

Yeah not high margin but rather low volume.

Isn't the reason simply that they want to code in C++? This is a passion project.

> Isn't the reason simply that they want to code in C++?

I don't know that that is the reason, given the opening lines of the article:

We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in Ladybird for a while now. We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story. The ecosystem is far more mature for systems programming, and many of our contributors already know the language. Going forward, we are rewriting parts of Ladybird in Rust.

That does not explain why they plan to continue writing it in C++.

There is no mystery, the donor just donated the money anonymously.

All that means is that the city won't publish the name of the donor. It doesn't mean "no one knows who has paid for this".

Ah, thanks for the correction.

Then they should have funded some building preservation programmes instead.

I would expect Satoshi to make a lot of money on later wallets that are not identified as theirs.

I'm looking forward to those films, especially if they are adaptations made by the fan community instead of corporate studios.

Then why is "everybody" so pissed about Google Reader being killed?