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I actually worked for a startup who wanted who wanted their apps written in Java because it "scales". To this day they don't realize hardware is cheaper than deveopers.

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Hardware isn't cheaper than developers when working on massive scale.

See this: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2011-Herb-Sutter...

Thanks for the video. I'll take a look.

Read the well documented example of Twitter. This is the kind of scale I'm talking about.

twitter and the like is a total edge case

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