... notes that 'Linus Torvalds, a Finn, comments his code in English (it apparently never occurred to him to do otherwise).
Just a little factual correction - it is true that Linus was born in Finland, but he was born in the Swedish family and his first language was Swedish. No doubt he also speaks Finnish, though.
As a former Soviet Union citizen I can confirm that map blurring has been considered a major secret weapon in the fight for World Revolution. Typically, the tourist city plans were next to unusable, filtered through multiple blur layers. This news snip only reinforces my doubts about the two "united" states behaving in remarkably similar fashion.
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... notes that 'Linus Torvalds, a Finn, comments his code in English (it apparently never occurred to him to do otherwise).
Just a little factual correction - it is true that Linus was born in Finland, but he was born in the Swedish family and his first language was Swedish. No doubt he also speaks Finnish, though.
As a former Soviet Union citizen I can confirm that map blurring has been considered a major secret weapon in the fight for World Revolution. Typically, the tourist city plans were next to unusable, filtered through multiple blur layers. This news snip only reinforces my doubts about the two "united" states behaving in remarkably similar fashion.