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I'm glad to hear that they've catched up to the original UNIX. :)

Benjamin Pierce considered troll.

The "You need a PHD to understand Haskell" slur is so bloody ridiculous. I certainly didn't have a problem with it, and I haven't even finished my degree yet! On a more general not…

Yes, but large projects often need to use recursive makefiles, which are notoriously flaky at detecting what has changed (if anything).

No this is what a GPL developer considers a "loss". Specifically, yet another demonstration of why developing for someone else's walled garden is a bad idea.

I'm not sure that Haskell could, given time, subsume dynamically typed programming. But even if it is possible, why would it be desirable? Most Haskell people don't think very high…

Icaza has a long history of being a microsoft shill, I can't say I'm suprised to see him leap to his master's defence once again.

The confusion about the use case of NoSQL probably stems from the term "NoSQL" being so vaguely defined. All you can say for sure about one is that it's not relational. But other t…

Remember, you can also use any language that compiles to Java bytecode on a JVM. A short list includes Scala, Clojure, Ruby, Python, Groovy and even Javascript(via Rhino). So the J…

There is also the matter that the whole "correctness vs. productivity" debate is a false opposite. There is nothing mutually contradictive with correctness and productivity, so the…

Of course human error applies here too; But it's much simpler to get one type right than to use the type in the right way everywhere. Per example: The Red-Black-Tree implementation…

It's amusing watching the author use purple prose over a single blinking LED. I bet if Steve Jobs gave him a turd he would describe it as "that which makes the flowers grow, with a…

It continues to amaze me how many and adamant apple's apologists are. Stockholm syndrome?

Let's assume that the author is right when he says that all companies ignore linux. What would make that such a big disaster? Is there some specific proprietary app that _needs_ to…

I'm not sure i agree with graham on this one. Certainly it's useful and necessary to keep some brevity, however his jab at design patterns is a schoolbook false opposite (if you do…

To me the really interesting question is how Microsoft ever got to be a monopoly in the first place, with the kind of products they've been making. What made windows and office suc…

I disagree with the main premise: That as long as you provide the "90% functionality" (i.e mail,chat e.t.c), no casual user will miss the last 10%. Sure, most of the time this will…

Several problems with this article: 1: Critique against mouse and keyboard rings hollow. It's stuck around so far because it "just works" for a large number of apps. Touchscreens n…