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I think that in tht moment when we start caring about rights on X more than about the X itself, we have a big problem. There's an interesting thing. The thing is inaccessible becau…

I am Russian and I confirm that I can read text from their front-page right away. Both alphabets.

It's because both British and American Englishes (Is it correct to say "Englishes" heh?) are heavily written languages, so they tend to evolve much slowly and converge with their w…

Welcome to the world of dialect continuum! Please enjoy your stay. Notable thing here is that AAVE has useful features absent from "just" English.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/05/27/may_2009_web_se... Global distribution of nginx sites. Germany wasn't that stong on nginx back then.

Non-programming people are discovering exceptions!

Parenting is obviously broken. It needs to be fixed ASAP or we just won't have a next generation. Paranoia is one of those brokenesses, there are much more. The reason for it: bull…

Hibernate is horrible. But, object datastores aren't an option most often. There are a lot of things wrong with SQL. For example, it's hard to do non-trivial queries because you ca…

That's because native SQL apis in programming languages are horrible (JDBC, you are horrible). So you want something to wrap your SQL with. And then, you only have objects in your …

I'd want an API to a physical world. Preferably one which isn't limited to "laws of nature", but rather lets you add your own ones. Also: Universe root console.

Yosefk described why it's pointless to make CIL CPUs and the like: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html http://www.yosefk.com/blog/high-level-cpu-follow-up.…

It had delegates initially, tho.

Paul Gaham used to say that you can't make a world-class university from people of just one nation. I guess same applies even more to startup hubs. How are they going to make peopl…

"most things become popular for very good reasons" Sure. But those reasons are gone. Long gone. So please, wrap it out already. "that is what a web server does" Did. Most PHP apps …

We are tired of you being loudly tired of Desktop Linux, FAVO you.

It would never work without frameworks: The PHP's default templating (stick code into templates) sucks (unusable for anything serious). PHP's default routing (/foo/bar.php, lookup …

But it still has 1000+ functions in the default namespace? And every file still starts with To be fair, it's wonderful that complex PHP apps ever work. It's a complete surprise to …

I'd go ugly early by saying that so did Hitler.

Well. Ruby?

However I'd say he's directly responsible for the misery the most PHP development now is. If he actually spent time reading about languages and designing his own, he would throw in…

Why not? I mean, rhino has methodNotFound-like thing, so you certainly can.

"Also you forgot to write that" Okay. You want to argue with yourself not with me, to the point when you start rewriting my claims. So, you go and argue with yourself.

You can easily pass an object into Javascript: context.put(“rubyObject”, MyRubyClass.new) Whether you would be able to call methods on it depends on whether the Snarl author did so…

There's JSLint, you can surely build it in. And it would have syntax colouring which basic lagged in.

Sorry, but for programming language, popularity is everything. It's a social phenomenon, it grows superlinearly with number of users. And languages become popular and unpopular for…