You can get by with English, but you won't understand the service (which is in the monastery's main language, e.g. Greek/Russian/etc).

Worth to mention that even some native greeks and russians have hard time understanding the services as russian monasteries are using Church Slavonic [1] and greek monasteries very old version of the Greek.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic

I can only wish "imagine yourself in the shoes of the protester before making a decision" would be added to the training.

There was a part that mentioned how one of the soldiers identifies with the child protestors, and how a high ranking officer mentioned if he were a Palestinian he’d be a terrorist. I don’t think it matters, they are basically just doing their job (or playing the game) they’ve been trained for. They still have to ask for authorization from the chain of command, so it doesn’t really matter what they think.

Pretty heavy article

"a high ranking officer mentioned if he were a Palestinian he’d be a terrorist" - That was Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister.

Also: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2016/07/camb...

Moving massive buildings was quite common in Romania during the communist regime, to make room for large boulevards: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/29b7pi/moving_...

I remember when this building was moved in Warrington (UK) in 1981:

http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem...

Please see the comment above: even though the main compiler is in maintenance and stabilization mode, innovation has happened in Scala in the form of independent projects, driven by people in Martin Odersky's lab.

A lot of work in 2.11 has gone in stabilizing the compiler (aka bug fixing) and the backend (the JVM bytecode generator). Unfortunately this is not very visible work, but it had to be done to maintain compatibility with Java 8 lambdas.

As for the new things, they are mainly library-based and compiler plugins, so the scalac compiler remains stable, and new features are self-supporting. Some examples:

* Scala.js (http://www.scala-js.org/)

* Scala.meta (https://github.com/scalameta/scalameta)

* Pickers and spores (https://speakerdeck.com/heathermiller/on-pickles-and-spores-...)

* Scala offheap (https://github.com/densh/scala-offheap)

* RRBVector (https://github.com/nicolasstucki/scala-rrb-vector)

* ScalaBlitz (https://scala-blitz.github.io/)

* Miniboxing (http://scala-miniboxing.org)

Also, I should mention the theoretical work on the DOT type system, which is a sound and more expressive type system to be used for the Scala programming language (compatible with the old type system, as it's more expressive, but also sound -- disallowing any incorrect code).

Regarding Typesafe, they took over releases and maintenance, and did a good job at that. Yet Martin Odersky himself and his team at EPFL are the main drivers for innovation, including dotty and all the projects listed above (which were all developed at EPFL, see http://lamp.epfl.ch).

I was really excited to read about offheap, but I'm disappointed that you make sacrifices in memory safety by using it.

I'm so excited by Rust's memory management, but Scala just have so many nice features, especially in multithreading. I hope Rust will catch up, eventually.

Use a simple phone camera to make realistic 3D models of your face, including wrinkles and face expressions. Pretty neat technology :)

I don't think is too little but I'm sure they are late. Too late? Probably not but imagine if they did this 10 years ago, the impact it would have had on Java and many other ecosystems. I bet many of them would have been smaller and MS larger.