"I have seen no data to backup this claim which would override my personal experience"

There have been attempts at measuring the effect of type systems, see for example this excellent presentation for some references: http://www.slideshare.net/Felienne/putting-the-science-in-co.... One of the studies mentioned here does claim that, other things being equal, static typing helps find bugs quicker.

Thanks for the link. I've read a lot of research papers along these lines. The results vary a lot.

The problem was in the phrase "other things being equal". Other things are never equal. Studies try to make them as equal as they can, and wind up differing as to which things are more important to get equal, and wind up with different results.

Scala has a number of libraries that lets you do this, for example Squants (http://www.squants.com/) and ScalaQuantity [https://github.com/zzorn/ScalaQuantity].

Somehow I don't think the original poster cares about your criticism. Or will make it past the first sentence.

I more wrote it as a comment in the form of "if you read this article with no previous experience with, or knowledge of, the mental effects of Lyme disease; and now think you do know something about those effects; please take this complementary wet blanket." :)

Agreed. For an excellent description of the dedication and artistry it takes to create a good font, have a look at the film "Learning to See as an Artist", produced by Edward Tufte, describing the life and work of designer Inge Druckrey: http://vimeo.com/45232468.

Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!

Another cloud file storage service worth checking out is Jottacloud (http://www.jottacloud.com). It has similar features to Google Drive and Dropbox but being based in Norway, it complies with stricter laws on privacy and data ownership. See for example the question "What does it mean for me that my files are stored in Norway?" in their FAQ (http://www.jottacloud.com/faq/).

A similar service is Wuala (https://www.wuala.com/), which is owned by the French company LaCie. They say your files are encrypted using AES-256 before they leave your system and the key stays with you. Apparently the only thing their employees see is the number of your files and their size. Their servers are in Switzerland, France and Germany.

It seems like a good option. Relatively cheap as well. But are they encrypting my files? On the FAQ page they say that during uploading the data transfer is encrypted, but they don't mention if my files stay encrypted on their server.