va_coder

I find little sympathy for the MS world.

How about a port of IE to Linux so I can test websites with it? How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? I could go on....

There's already an equivalent product on Android called ReadItLater. Moving along to other things...

Are Clojure shops experiencing this? One of the things that makes Clojure appealing to me is the lack of types and simplicity (IMO) of the language.

fail2ban is good for this as well

Mr. Ellison, you're the MS of databases. Don't rejoice too much.

>>"wow, we're so blessed to have these guys"

Don't put words in my mouth. I asked a simple question.

Would this have happened to ATT under a different administration?

I find it ironic to see all the social media buttons on a page criticising social media.

It's irrational but this makes me lean towards their product instead of the Kindle Fire. Go B&N!

I don't understand your tedious deployment comment. I just type the following and bam, my app is updated:

appcfg.py update .

I don't understand the scaling comment either. How is it not scaling for you?

I love the tech specs and I want to support my local B&N, so I think I'm buying this one.

2.3 Gingerbread (modified)

Schemaless is awesome. Are you dba or a developer? If you're a developer like me schemaless is awesome because of it's flexibility. I focus less time on the how to do stuff and more time on the what stuff should we do.

I've been using Hibernate for 9 years and I finally came to the conclusion that it's just not worth the pain. When working on RDBMS I'm using straight SQL from now on.

One fallacy in this article is the portrayal of the typical "regular programmer". The reality is that many regular programmers would pick something horrible but established in the enterprise like Java Struts or Oracle Web forms, not Rails, because that's "what they know".

At the risk of losing karma, I have to say you Apple fanboys are absolutely fascinating to me. I don't understand you at all.

40k people got comp sci degrees in 1985, and in 2009 that number has not changed! That's shocking.

Something marketed towards MBA's - not coders.

I slightly understand the push to move experienced coders into management. I have enjoyed coding but the biggest frustration has been the poor direction of management. Companies often don't know how and why technology should be used. They need smart people that know technology to lead (not just code).

Ctl-Shift-T is the start of my session, regardless of UI

Isn't that the Perl culture? As someone who has seen a lot of Perl code, I'm serious.

I hope you guys are working on a pro-privacy email service

Yea I did, but I don't take what Rich says as gospel. I think for myself, not just about code but how I allocate my time.

That's true.

I'm just thinking my time might better be spent thinking about business ideas, and then trying those ideas out on Heroku. As opposed to learning about some technology that may make me a better programmer but may not really help me get to where I want to be, which is having a successful product that I own equity in.

Is it really worth my time to learn the intricacies of functional programming? Am I still going to be writing code for some corporate overlord 5 or 10 years from now?

Great presentation, but it got me thinking. Am I wasting my time trying to get software just right? Is it worth my time to learn Clojure or Haskell, when I don't even know what I'll use it for?

How many programmers do you know that are learning all kinds of languages and technologies and methodologies and other things to improve the quality of the software they write and yet will probably sit at a desk writing code for the next 30 years? As opposed to starting a business, getting financial free, etc.

Take the guy from Duck Duck Go. He wrote all of that in Perl; talk about easy, but not always so simple (to maintain). What if he spent his time learning Lisp and Monads instead of writing an app that lots of people use?

Thanks

What kind of graphics card do you have?

Does Ubuntu One still suck?

An OEM laptop with 8 hours of battery life please

Oracle's control over Java has seriously dampened my enthusiasm for it.

"Even the most entrenched, old school DBA stuck in the bowels of some drab insurance company in Indiana wouldn't buy that"

I often run into people with the opinion that Oracle is the only viable solution.