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"...Of course, there's Steve Jobs and his Apple..."

And Jeff Bezos and his Amazon. Also Larry Ellison and his Oracle.

But yeah, if you want to create a company that doesn't create value and sell it for some quick mega-bucks, then you need to be in that circle in that location.

Easy to guess: same money would be redistributed differently and there would be less of healthy kids (statistically speaking).

Well, if you are a well-connected MIT/Stanford student, then you will definitely be judged based on your merits.

First decide if it's truly worse it: http://wtfjs.com .. http://wtfjs.com/page/20

The best way to make money on photography/forex is to start offering photography/forex coaching. I guess this works for start-ups as well.

Humanity as a whole? Big corporations?

Providing that such an intelligence will travel by spaceships. Maybe it's enough to keep converting the local space bodies into computronium and just observing the universe via some advanced means in "spare time".

Every year, inflation + your value increase. Otherwise it's a strong implicit signal that they think you should go elsewhere.

Better check how long/difficult is the settlement/citizenship process. Is it even achievable? There are fairer places to go, it should be a strategic decision not an opportunistic one.

He identified a strong discrepancy between their vision and their decision. What's wrong with that?

Still waaay too imperative, how about this:

func [1,2,3,4,5] => [2,4,6,8,10] //Calculation inferred by compiler.

console.log (func [6,7,8,9,10]) //=> [12,14,16,18,20]

What, you mean treat developers as managers? What a ridiculous suggestion! How about a nice Google-style office instead?

I would rate #5 above #4 :) - trust in lone mad geniuses.

So transpilation to legacy languages is now the only option?

Question 7: how to minimize it's usage or at least avoid writing it directly?

TypeScript, AtScript, Dart - now every serious web app builder provides at least one.

Would rather have aging cured. Would make sense to manage things long-term for everyone.

8. Visual Studio and C#/F#.

So F# modules is an unnecessary concept too?

F# module == C# static class. What is the problem?

Don't even try F# then :). Syntax is terse, but so academically alien.

I was hoping Unity would start loosing some market due to outdated Mono. I guess we are in for another github-like "monopoly".

Xamarin for iOS compiles to native as far as I am aware.

Good for reflection and renames. ReSharper helps but I don't want to rely on it.

Name and shame?

Yeah, but they can afford to do that now :). This is what you get when you are playing nice with all platforms.

IE/Chrome, Visual Studio/Sublime, ASP.NET/Node.js - who cares, just be a Microsoft developer and be happily productive.

To be fair visual programming is a known territory for designers:

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarm...

Also Unreal Engine will be fixed soon ;) - Xamarin is working on C# scripting for it.

1. A much better language - C# with some integration with the best IDE (Visual Studio).

2. Being first to indie market: community and asset store.

I hope not, this way we will see a bit more of healthy competition in the indie game engine space. This is something Unity desperately needs.

2015 is going to be a year of Microsoft.

What does sticking HTML and JS into every hole have to do with the Metaverse? It's about Web, not legacy languages.