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The remaining quotes:

C++: "So you like long compile times and incomprehensible error messages? That's cool, we do too"

Java: "So you're a believer in AbstractMethodFactoryBeans? That's cool, we all have our vices"

Python: "So you enjoy the paradigm of backtrace-driven development? That's cool, everyone gets a bit tired of static typing once in a while"

C: "So you think OOP is for hipsters? That's cool, we all get nostalgic sometimes"

Javascript: "So you're a dynamic individual who thinks that, underneath, everything is an object? That's cool, we like to dream as well"

For Rust, it just sends you directly to it's site.

Indeed this is very dramatic. Positive feedback boosts egos, negative feedback gets the work done. If no one ever received negative feedback, we would spend our lives believing we're perfect while doing everything wrong.

With the "Tree Style Tab" extension you can manage tons of tabs in a comfortable and ordered way.

How come no one complains about Chrome version numbers?

Someone should implement Lua in browsers.

Good observation, but too bad that no one will ever see your high DPI images because the "retina revolution" isn't a thing. Most people won't ever notice the difference.

I don't get how people praises so much the iOS app store. I own an iPad and it's always a chore to find any decent free app. Also lots of paid apps are crappy, and you don't have any refund method. My android phone is filled with free and high quality free apps.

Samsung devices have a pretty good stock ROMs out of the box. Never had the need to flash my Galaxy S2. And they have flashing-free and reversible rooting methods.

But Android 2.3 is more functional than iOS6, even without rooting.

I'm not familiar with Haskell.. how is the static typing used in the second example?

That's what statically typed languages call "templates".

That's possible because the language runs on a VM that contains metadata about your data structures, not because of the dynamic typing. If classes are implemented as a hash table of it's fields, then it's easy to add/remove members at runtime.

Both can do the same (they are turing complete), but some things are harder to do in statically typed languages because of the underlying implementation, like reflection or eval().

Static typing is safer (more compile-time checks) but more verbose. Type errors are found by the compiler before the program runs.

With dynamic typing you write less, but requires better understanding of the underlying types so you don't get runtime errors. Type errors propagate through the program until it generates a runtime exception or wrong results.

For Firefox, there is an Adblock subscription called "Antisocial" http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions (at the bottom of the page)

I would answer him "Sorry, I use Linux".

Works for me on Firefox 15 (linux)

The MooTools library implements declarative class syntax for regular javascript:

http://mootools.net/docs/core/Class/Class

Infinite scroll pages are harder to read with a pointing device withouth a scroll wheel, because the scroll bar jumps randomly when reaching the bottom.

Yet another article about this? The PC is not going to die. Maybe it's the wet dream of the vocal minority who lives in the apple-bubble. But for me and many others, they are devices that serve distinct, non-overlapping purposes.

When I'm at home, I pretty much forget about my tablet/smartphone, because a desktop PC is much more comfortable to use than a mobile device.

Android has a traditional file system, iOS does if you jailbreak it.

They're just punch cards made on glass.

My favorite WebGL thing: the GLSL sandbox

http://glsl.heroku.com/

Probably you used Linux at the time it wasn't very mature. I'm running Gentoo now and never had to reinstall to fix things. With modern computers compiling is very fast, most software compiles in less than a minute. I spend more time solving binary compatibility problems with CentOS (at work) than compiling stuff via portage.

I recently bought a new video card (nvidia), plugged it and then booted linux. It just worked out of the box. Then I proceeded to boot windows, it started on a low resolution video mode because the current driver failed. So had to download and install latest drivers manually. The whole procedure took like 3 or 4 restarts.

That's really not relevant for people like me, who works 90% of the time on his local machine. Even if I have to work with remote machines, I always try to sshfs so I can work with the files locally.

zsh's tab completion is definitely not cosmetic. It can do very useful things like completing scp destination paths over remote hosts.

On that example, the syntax looks like Python with a bit of BASIC (the type declarations). That "StringBuilder" object reminds me of Java, I would prefer a concatenation operator.

Seems that doesn't use explicit variable declaration. Supporting that would be a great improvement over Python.

So, for best performance look at the lowest latency and ignore the clock speed?

I don't remember ever feeling "hapiness" after doing exercise. All that's left after it it's the overwhelming feeling of being tired.

Works fine for me, Firefox 15/Chrome 21 on Linux with a GTX 560 Ti card

Since when Android needs antivirus?