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As chuck McM said, start looking for a problem, rather than an idea but i would like to add this caveat: 1) Look at the background of you 3 guys, and list out problems which were b…

Read wodehouse and watched Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister to learn english in the 80's

Age. Grow old.

Assembly was always an option, though a painful one.

I Second that. A Fantastic book which inspired me to go into science.

No Asimov, the greatest writer of books on General Science for the public?

Damn. It's always nice to see things i was working towards 15 years ago, now coming into fruition.

A package manager is generally not part of the language per se and should not be part of the language, but rather be part of the tooling ecosystem around it. Don't get me wrong. A …

Great. I have been streem-ing for more than 15 years now. :-)

IronPython and IronRuby never really had corporate backing - and the few resources devoted to them had been moved away fairly quickly. Thus their fate today. The difference, this t…

They are public officials and those are public contact details.

Wow. What an inappropriate analogy. Way to go.

Sadly, we all do.

FTFY People are good sometimes, and we don't give enough credit when that happens.

Why would you care where people learned programming from? If you know how to spot a good programmer with a real interest in programming, what does it matter where he started? Only …

Now, the courts get to decide how to run your business?

He was probably venting. Sadly, outsourcing is here to stay and is decided upon by CxO level folks with little to no input from the tech staff.

Isn't the sample size too small for such generalizations? The so-called "senior" guy just comes across as a bully. Nothing more. Nothing less. It also indicates that the indian sid…

How many organizations that outsource a) Send senior management to personally oversee the outsourced work in india ( at least initially )? b) Send detailed SRS (Software Requiremen…

This is awe inspiring. Programming is a hand-on activity, and the best way to learn programming is by doing it every day, in every way, till you can do it in your sleep.

If you knew all this why ask a specific question? I am really trying hard to take you seriously and not treat you like a troll. As far as supporting code written by someone else ye…

Similar to what? Here's a link to the open source linux version: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ Also check out this site for more info: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ The Windows …

Passive aggressively imagining things and projecting it on others is going to get you nowhere. If you have something useful or even your own opinion to contribute, do so. I see tha…

Really. I guess you are entitled to your own imagination.

I would have gone with object orientation myself, and a de jure standard library ( but then i am an old bloke from the days before C had a std lib :-) But i have to admit that most…