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That's still considered Java - even if you're bundling the runtime dependencies within the app...

Wants credit card info for free trial? Instant browser shutdown.

Oh... and you think Erlang or Haskell frameworks are mainstream while you fail to mention ASP.net?

ServiceStack demos had been running on top of a Linux box for nearly one and a half year without a single reboot[1]. Much of the ASP.net stack had been opensourced by MS recently and the goodness had no doubt trickled down to mono. Of late, the mono framework has been concentrating more on mobile platforms than traditional desktop/server space.

[1] http://www.servicestack.net/mythz_blog/?p=838

Flask is anything but "minimal micro". It's a thin Sinatra-like facade over Werkzeug.

An awkward incident handled cowardly by someone, and some random anonymous coward too afraid to put his name where the mouth is steps up in defence? feh

Looks awesome! A much needed revamp at last!

From now on, the snake will be able to compete head to head with a certain pink rock (in terms of attractive homepages) :)

$70 is a months wage in many parts of the world.

Disclaimer: "World" in the above statement refers to parts of the earth map which are not occupied by North America and old Europe. ;)

It's curious the MIT article tries to downplay the role of Wickramasinghe behind this research finding. NC Wickramasinghe may be a brilliant scientist, but any news regarding possible extra-terrestrial life-form and his name appearing together instantly raises alarm bells all over the place. Wickramasinghe is the von Däniken of astrobiology.

> After a significant amount of experience in the .NET ecosystem, I believe the majority of the anti-Microsoft sentiment is well-deserved. At one point, there was a lot of innovation in .NET OSS, but it seems to have ground to a halt within the last few years. It's possible I'm just projecting because of my own experience, but it seems like many of the more influential members of the .NET ecosystem have gone on to do other things.

That's not entirely true. Pretty much the entire ASP.net MVC stack has now been open-source. Entity Framework is also open-source.

I agree, 3rd party OSS ecosystem is much smaller than Java.

Having to manage both Windows (IIS) and Linux servers (mostly Debian and a few CentOS'), I much prefer tinkering with Linux CLI rather than clickety-clicking on pretty GUIs.

> IMHO though, the JVM has a better alternative language ecosystem than the .NET one. Yeah, .NET has F# builtin to VS these days, but doesn't have things like Scala/Clojure (not first class citizens), Kotlin, Ceylon, etc...

And the irony is: .net was touted initially as a polyglot platform, whereas JVM has been primarily associated with Java only.

Did this news precede the allegation that both Pepsi and Coca-cola (at least in India) contained pesticide in their drink?

I remember there was a huge uproar when that news broke and both companies had to invest heavily into PR campaign (involving several movie mega-stars) to play it down.

Update: Looks like it is. The Pepsi/Coke pesticide brouhaha took place in 2006.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-08-09/india-pestici...

http://www.occupymonsanto360.org/2013/03/06/india-press-repo...

Update #2: News of Pepsi/Coke being used in lieu of pesticides is also making the rounds...

http://consciouslifenews.com/coke-pepsi-being-pesticides-ind...

> wondering why Java wasn't considered and 70% of the internet's backbone not risked to vulnerabilities...

And incidents like these have contributed to the sad, long decline of Delphi/FP. Ever since the large exodus of talented former Borland engineers, Borland, Inprise, CG and Embarcadero management had been exploiting Delphi as a cash cow and milking it FWIW.

Some of the other articles from the "God Issue" can be found here: http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1199197...

Speaking of speed reading, the current layout of HN is not optimal for reading. Main content width is way too long which makes of long sentences. Font size is too small - so you're forced to zoom in.

Perhaps PG could think about improving readability of the site.

I'd started using Foxit for the same reason. But the speed advantage is no longer an issue. Adobe had closed the gap and Acrobat reader now loads just as fast as Foxit. Besides, Acrobat's rendering is far superior to Foxit's (not to mention Foxit fails to load some PDF document or displays garbage)

Acrobat is the new Foxit nowadays!

I use nanoc (http://nanoc.ws/). It's written in Ruby - but it's quite powerful yet so very simple to use.

I've split hair over jekyll/octopress configuration until I stumbled upon this nimble beauty... haven't looked back since.

Give nanoc a try.

GoDaddy? No sympathy.

You deserved this...

JVM ecosystem may be ahead of .net, but on the language front Java doesn't hold a candle against C#.

What's stopping you from using VS with PTVS? http://pytools.codeplex.com/

I am a heavy-duty user of both PyCharm/PhpStorm and VS myself.

Ninja IDE for Python is trying to match up to ST2 (and it feels more IDE-like than ST). Until it succeeds, SublimeText remains a very attractive option.

>any side project like Mono can be shut down any time.

RMS had been trying to spread that particular flavor of FUD for over a decade - albeit C#'s popularity has extended beyond Linux into mobile space.

I am no friend of Microsoft, and not a huge fan of Mono - but I think together they provide a viable alternative to the cross-platform JVM.

That's a good list of little-known but useful python projects!

A limited capacity lite version is there

also, .bd domains cannot be purchased exclusively. You need to prefix com/net/org before the bd TLD

My thought exactly.

I guess learning that there's a feature called "hibernation" would give OP the rapture...

That's because twig was originally created by Armin - the creator of jinja. It was part of a (now abandoned) blogging engine called chyrp. Later, twig was salvaged by Fabien and incorporated into symfony.