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I couldn't agree more: as a self-employed software engineer with degrees in literature and psychology, I am living proof that now (not one day, right now) programmers are working f…

same deal, started in 2001 on LAMP stack 2 years ago woke up and started exploring, Groovy, Ruby, and then, bing, penny dropped, Scala. New life at 40 ;-) In the end you need passi…

uhhh, not sure what to say, I'm living in France. In the SW part of the country, the surf region, there are loads of foreigners, many of whom have been here year-round for more tha…

LMAO! Thank you. It's the same for me when I'm in England, the locals just don't understand me. "you know what I mean, right?", I say, and they respond with, "oh, royt, e means roy…

Well, I'm not saying never leave the bedroom ;-) I'm also talking about living abroad, not hooking up with a foreigner in NYC and she plays teach the American to butcher X language…

I come to France in the autumn and spring, have been doing so for 5 or 6 years; studied French as a kid, and lived off-and-on in Montreal for about 5 years. I would not consider my…

absolutely agree, I would LOVE to hear the C1 French speakers demonstrate their savoir faire with la belle langue NOW, with further years of practice post-C1 mastery. I can guarant…

5 months without living/breathing the language amongst native speakers, fluency, methinks NOT ;-) I took 8 years of French growing up (10-18) and I understood nothing, literally no…

Yeah, good point, live usb has been a life saver beyond os install and preview. I've intentionally been sitting on the fence for over a year now. Once Fedora 14 goes EOL, going to …

I do miss cmd-`, toggle through currently focused app windows from Mac, one of the few features that I did not get in my switch to Fedora 3 years ago. Of course, so much more was g…

At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it. Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup. …

If I had sufficient karma, I would up vote you, but alas, made the mistake of bringing up a pro-Scala perspective in a why-did-Twitter-leave-Rails thread. At any rate MonoDevelop i…

Rails is there to generate static content as the alternative, hitting the Rails stack for live data, is asking for trouble -- just ask Twitter ;-) Of course by saying such a thing …

Bizarre, can find nothing on the net that backs that claim, would love to see concrete evidence here in 2012, was under the impression that Twitter was fully ditching Rails.

Facebook is PHP (with C++ pre-processor called HipHop). StackOverflow is, ta da, M$ stack (C#, SQL Server, etc.) State of the art in highly scalable web apps? Try this: 1) Apache 2…

Exactly, with caching the application server becomes far less of an issue. There's a catch, though. Twitter, is a live service, content is constantly changing, which means round-tr…

Wikipedia and CL largely serve static files, so no biggie there what the application server is, front end proxy (httpd, nginx, lighthttpd, etc.) does the heavy lifting. Wordpress i…

Yes, you're correct, it was not an either-or proposition, I'm sorry, they dropped them both. Seriously, I'm curious, what public facing, or any facing, components does Twitter use …

oh, Twitter (Scala/Java), American Airlines (Java), Facebook (on HipHop in C++), Stackoverflow (C#), ESPN (Java) I think by big that's a code word for enterprise. The big sites you…

Twitter did not think Rails was particularly adequate at serving up anything (for their extreme needs), so they dumped it for the JVM. Charles Nutter is doing genius work with JRub…

quite the contrary, pjax reduces bandwidth and, properly implemented, reduces total # of requests (since once html, css, js, images are downloaded, you just hit the server for the …

Yes, agreed, generate static everything on first request; i.e. hit the application server just 1X for live data and generate static file(s) that represent the request on the front …

I agree with the OP, pretty spot on, while bootstrap sites look good, they generally all look the same. For CRUD/admin, yes, bootstrap is a definite go; for public front facing, no…

Same deal, but I left my iMac 2 years ago for a Linux laptop. In the same way that I had that warm glow of the post-Windoze-to-Mac conversion experience 5 years ago, I had the same…