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Google is a company which is not short-sighted at all. I recently shared a story about Google's chairman's mysterious visit to Pakistan: http://www.thejaywalker.net/2012/06/googles…

I'm interested in knowing others viewpoint on this!

I doubt this is OK by Japanese standards. Did anyone commit suicide?

Best comment: I never anticipated this day would ever come....

Isn't it the cost of having direct access to the memory? Can you name another language where you can control so many aspects of the system, and still remain "clean"?

What?!! VB6 is still alive?!!

which are?

Well, I guess I should have waited for this discussion to reach a conclusion :) I read in Advanced Linux Programming (the famous ALP book) that fork() as well as creating threads v…

thanks for correcting me on fork(); not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that statement :)

perhaps he has a very different keyboard?

Even Mac is like a PC, then!

Here is what James Gosling had to say about one of the patents Oracle alleged Google infringed: Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the…

Your views may differ. But I would take the statement "not developed by Google" as "not born at Google." I would compare that to SQL Server which wasn't born at Microsoft amongst a…

Do you think any of the "facts" mentioned on the page are drawbacks for Android? Let's recap: forked Linux, competing with Java ME within Java eco-system and having a non-JVM virtu…

Yes, that's exactly why I think the "operations" concept was added. But isn't it good to provide extra sem_wait() and sem_post() for most of the rest of us who want a single increm…