"I love how many women are in engineering in Romania. 3 out of the 13 on that list" - if that's what you based your assumption on, you are quick to jump to conclusion... I'm not saying there aren't many female software engineers in Romania - perhaps there are, it's just that 13 people is too small a sample to say much about that. I have to admit that I'm actually quite curious if anyone could provide some meaningful statistics on the subject (female labor force participation in IT in different countries) - something more than anecdotal evidence
Recursion isn't worthwhile in Java because of 1) a lack of tail-recursion and 2) the clunkiest possible syntax and most restrictive possible semantics for lambdas.
This is a very strong statement. AFAIK most languages don't have do tail-recursion in general (Even most implementations of common lisp, and Clojure only if you use a special keyword).
Recursion is worthwhile in certain cases in any language where the problem naturally calls for recursion; things like DFS and BFS are a lot uglier without recursion. Lambdas and first class functions really aren't necessary for a lot of situations where recursion is natural, and in those scenarios it is clearly worthwhile in Java.
So, does Bing finally allow restricting your search results to specific period? The lack of this crucial feature was why I wouldn't even bother using it, and it still doesn't seem to be available (I just had a quick look out of curiosity).
