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Sorry to threadjack but... how does it work? It seems that, for some reason, my account is blacklisted too. Who decides that? On the basis of what? I'm honestly perplexed...

Hm. If you look at the problems C++ is out to solve, they're complex. Why shouldn't C++ be complex too then? A tool shouldn't hide complexity - look at VB and the monsters it creat…

Beware. Titanium looks good on the surface but as soon as you push it to its limits ugly things start to happen. There's a still ongoing discussion about Titanium on my blog, here …

As crazy as it sounds, this might really be a good idea. It needs to reach critical mass before working for real though - and unless some big player picks up on this it's not going…

The article is missing the point. The purpose of peer review is not to assure that a given publication is of good quality - it's to maintain the status quo. A system in which any u…

> That's not logic. That's jealousy. If you read my comments, you'll see that I wasn't making a comparison between me and her. I was making a comparison between her and somebody wh…

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I'll try anyway. > If a 16-year-old boy from the ghetto in the US became the world's youngest MCP at the age of 9, I would absolutely expect tha…

And you're a true manager right to the end, my friend. Making decision with your heart alone and refusing to see logic and data when they're in front of you. May our paths never cr…

Again, perspective. On average, that's certainly true. In this specific instance, not so. Take a 16 year old boy from the ghetto in the US and compare it to a rich upper caste Paki…

What does her death has to do with you ? What does her death has to do with all of us? What disgusts me is the lack of tact and consideration of editors and maybe her parents - the…

You know sons and daughters of multi-milionairs having problem finding a job and moving out of the house?

Your reply makes me sad. I'll try to explain why: Empathy should have nothing to do with your ability to evaluate facts. Empathy has an evil cousin, politically correctness . When …

> we get a bunch of morons on here telling us how the accomplishments aren't as good as they seem. Whoa, easy. I have expressed my opinion and I have backed it up well I think. No …

You've got a shitty boss and a shitty job. If you're worth your dime you should start looking for something else right now.

> You have your opinion and I have mine. So let's not try to have a discussion about it? I've never understood that frame of mind.

Is this serious? Correlation != causation. A PhD should know that.

At least in my community, when you talk about "sql server" it's obvious that you're talking about MS SQL Server. In the same way, postgreSQL is "postgres" and Oracle Database is ju…

> and made it to the Redmond campus based on her own ambition and drive to do something for herself. Sorry but no. Again, I don't want to belittle her accomplishments - it's certai…

No no no not at all - Sorry if it came out that way. On a personal level, I am deeply sorry for her death. Given time, she might have become a great programmer. On a more general l…

Exactly what i thought. Plus, from a marketing point of view, porting sqlserver to unix would have been suicide for Microsoft given their primary objective (for what concernes the …

I hate to write this, since the tragic happening but really, the hype is widely unjustified. I started programming when I was 8, I know a lot of people that started meddling around…

> Taking a step back you have to ask: Why are these publishing companies given such power Publishing companies have not that much power. What they publish is decided based on how m…

In the article, they probably meant "organized crime" as a whole. To a foreigner, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta don't say much.

Credit crunch is going to make an already terrible situation worse. The biggest problem is that every kind of "external" help (like, for example, EU lending money to italian banks …