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With no plans to go to the moon again, we will soon be out of living moon-walkers.

Fundamental inventions and discoveries are never recognized right away. That's why Nobel prizes are usually awarded for a work done several decades ago. The guys who do revolutiona…

Here's a recent interview with him -- an excellent way to understand his perspective on the future of programming languages: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mccarthy-elephant-2000

This number probably comes from NetCraft Web Server Survey: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/10/06/october-2011-we... It indeed shows 43M "hostnames" as of Oct 2011.

Upgrading to at least the latest minor version (0.7.6y as you say) may indeed be a good idea since there have been some security vulnerabilities discovered e.g. http://cve.mitre.or…

Yes, but positive feedback for an obviously-doomed project may lead a person to spend a lot of time on it and fail. Of course you never know -- many successful ideas were ridiculed…

In other words, you want to hire in places where there's a large pool of good developers, but few employers competing for them. Am I following you now?:)

Actually I disagree about your "cheap talent" remark. When you are building a scalable startup, looking for cheap labor is not a good idea since it's a part of "fixed cost" you hav…

Good explanation of benefits of being in a startup hub. However, are there advantages to being OUTSIDE a hub? I can think of at least two: * Living and working outside a startup hu…

That kind of reasoning kept me away from taking the leap, but now I realize how flawed that kind of logic is. Yes, most startups fail, but it's not a lottery. The success depends o…

> most people that earn a few million rarely retire after that If you give a few million to random person, 99% chance he/she will retire. However, people who EARN few million rarel…

This could be used in video call centers in the future. Image you make a video call to your bank, and a blonde girl appears on the screen. In reality, however, you are talking to a…

Not really, as long as they don't use Windows API directly and rely on .NET Framework they should be able to run it on MONO.

From my experience, it's not "over-abstraction" per se which is causing performance issues. Rather, it's that people who work at the upper levels of abstraction don't understand ho…

The more interesting technology is contact lenses augmented with "mini LED screen" like in this article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-realit... This could …

Google App Engine for Java is another PaaS option for running Java in the cloud. I wonder how these two compare?

Being both a carnivore and a big consumer electronics junkie I can relate to your argument. I was mostly answering to parent poster's comment about people starving. However I'm a b…

Almost every case famine during last few decades had to do with some kind of local conflict (e.g. local gangs interfering with delivery of food aid) as opposed to resource shortage…

This is not an easy thing to do, especially if you use EC2 in conjunction with EBS volumes, which is typical setup. EBS volumes are created in a particular availability zone ("faci…