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Java 6 did not break backward compatibility (code written for Java 5 generally runs fine on Java 6).

"One of the great strengths of Python 2 is the long tail of 3rd party libraries" does not imply it is the "only measure"

Did you read the article? The long tail is the critical collection of libraries and most of them will never be ported. People write new Python 2 libraries every day, actually--the …

Python 2 has unicode literals and utf-8 available if you declare them at the top of your file. You don't need Python 3 for that.

I'm the author. I've never worked at Microsoft (where did you get that?). I'm a Linux guy. The "lazy people" you refer to is 98% of the Python community. Python 3 didn't "gain" sta…

> No one expects an app written for OSX 10.4 Tiger to work on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. That's truly sad.

json.org/license

That's just a license for software available on json.org, so no impact at all.

OK, I'm moving to Finland.

I like Prolog Also, I have a love/hate relationship with a lot of these langs, so votes go in both categories, I suppose.

It's a common technique to serialize arbitrary data into blob fields in SQL databases--I've seen it for years. Usually, it is considered an anti-pattern. Postgres 9.1 doesn't do mu…

It will probably be available here forever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130806152657/http://blog.jgc.or...

> They are a data structure invented by Rich Hickey for Clojure It is an implementation of a data structure invented by Phil Bagwell: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.p…

Edit: he should have escaped the $title and $body.

This isn't a search for SQL injection, its a search for a couple things that you often find in older PHP code that is generally hacked together and likely to have SQL injection vul…

"... antioxidants, probiotics, and nootropics. It's everything the body needs." - Soylent video "It's a single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. …

People are working on this very problem: http://ecozoomstove.com/

I enjoyed using an earlier version of Linux Mint, but the default gnome-shell UI had a massive memory leak ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/930402 ) which was never fixe…

1. Does being a cretin or a jerk or whatever mean it is OK to be imprisoned for non-crimes? 2. He wasn't the one who started the comparisons with Aaron Swartz, from weev's tweet: "…

"automatic merging" upon consensus -- had to laugh at this idea, the ratio of merge requests that would merge cleanly, automatically is low. Generally they have to be rebased again…

Rosetta Code has Hello World in only 245 programming languages (but a huge corpus of other examples in various languages). http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world

Perseverence. Time and exposure is all you need. Eventually you will be comfortable with it. I know I am, and it probably took about a year.

Cookie handling needs to be visible, not just for devs, but normal users. Maybe a little bar that shows that first party and 3rd party domains are offering cookies and users can al…