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Which programming language do you learn first? The one your friends use.

If your friends don't program (or you don't have any friends), learn Python.

Knowing a domain and being able to predict success in it are two very different things.

EDIT: A better example. Before Ford released the F-150, it seemed to be a solution in search of a problem. It was somewhere between the F-100 and F-250 and none of the pre-market reviewers really seemed to like it. Ford released it anyway. The F-150 went on to become the most popular variant of the best selling truck series for 34 years.

This reminds me of Ballmer's claims that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents. They ultimately resulted in nothing, I see this heading in the same direction.

It seems more like a scare tactic than anything else. If they really wanted to go after Android, Google or Samsung would probably be included. Instead, they're going after some lower profile (though still very recognizable) manufacturers. To me that says they want publicity, not necessarily legal results.

I've never heard that chess saying before. That's one to remember.

"Only good players get lucky."

I think GWT would be most useful to data-driven apps/services that need a web interface. All of your heavy data mining can be done in highly optimized Java, and then you won't need to context switch in order to implement your web frontend. It's a win-win.

That's not to say that it can't be used in a more "social" context (Rypple uses GWT for their app, and I have yet to see problems there), but I'd imagine that it has greater use for data miners and enterprise applications.

Do you support FreeBSD when you release code for Linux?

I thought not. Same thing here.

Sometimes it's hard to cheer for sports teams when you see the havoc their fans wreak. I used to think Chicago had it bad, but I have since learned that we're actually pretty tame when it comes to sports riots (at least until the Cubs finally win).

Reference: Montreal.

Could you possibly share a little bit more about the kind of work you do and why Go has become the clear winner over C++/Java?

I, for one, would really love to learn more about Go.

Say what you will about Apple, their products, or their business model, but I've always found their engineers to be the pinnacle of quality and hacker culture.

Came here to say the very same thing.

I remember when Chrome came out, their team said that they weren't trying to mess with Firefox, and that hopefully by keeping Chromium open source, they would enter a mutually beneficial race to create the best possible browser.

I'm glad to see that both Mozilla and the Chrome team are talented and mature enough to accomplish that together.

Twitter has no privacy model, so there can't be any privacy outrage. All tweets are public, it's just a matter of whether or not they show up on your feed.

And if Twitter wants to make an extra (maybe morally gray) dime off of any "privacy outrage", they can offer certain users to pay a fee to have their tweets NOT included in these dump.

You and I think eerily alike.

The French have adopted Ubuntu as their primary systems. Stock markets now run on Linux. So does whitehouse.gov. Obama's campaign servers ran on FreeBSD.

It's not entirely unreasonable to see it changing. Plus, as you said, it would save the government plenty of money in licensing and support.

A better question would be how can you program graphics if you're blind?

That's something I would love to find out and/or solve.