If you think it's implemented the same as J2EE and that it offers nothing new -- then its obvious you've never even spent 10 minutes on their site seeing what it does.

Node.js is asynchronous and event driven -- and when compared to the thread-pool J2EE approach it's actually quite innovative and has the potential to produce a lot more client throughput (as it's not sitting around with 10 blocked threads waiting to fetch data from a disk or database).

The only thing worse than churn is people running their mouths when they wont even take 15 minutes out of their precious day to evaluate something honestly.

Because V8 Javascript performance destroys Python all day and twice on sunday. Python is one of the slowest languages in regular use today.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=python3&data=u64

It lost ME market share to Android which is... basically Java.

As far as performance -- I've not seen any serious benchmarks that show the CLR outperforming the JVM so handily. Got a link?

Their goals are in direct opposition to the maintenance of rights/privileges held by US citizens.

The only way to balance it out is to have an element in government with as much power as them who's job it is to maintain those rights. Basically you need the ACLU with enough juice to not be afraid of the president.

Or a president with enough nuts to do the job himself. Or a public who would vote him out if he didn't.

It all comes back to us being misinformed douchebags with no concept of what is important in government.

Assuming that he had a supercomputer to crunch the data, knew the algorithms the NSA/FBI uses, implemented them properly, and then understood the results and what conclusions we would come to -- then yes, your supposition is reasonable.

Otherwise, your nuts.

Exactly the reason you should be immersed in your field.

If we don't know the buzzwords and their real meaning/applicability -- we then leave it to our management to deal with them.

Thats why you see the word cloud on anything involving more than one computer these days.

If you are selling technology and you dont keep your product relevant, you company will soon be irrelevant -- if it isnt already.

The real problem is that there is an idealized picture of an average, competent engineer.

The reality is that the average engineer is barely competent and average companies will be full of them. Any team you end up on in such a company will almost certainly contain a handful of them, and worse will likely contain at least 1 sub-par engineer to boot. This is just a fact of life.

The problem is not being unhappy with crappy help -- the problem is the stupid idea that you should never have to deal with crappy help. I think any good engineer should be prepared to absorb some adversity, whether it comes in the form of a tough problem, a bad team member, a bad market, or bad management.

It's called life.

Sorry, but anyone who refers to contemporary technology as "buzzwords" should most likely retire or find a different line of work.

A great engineer pushes technology forward and leads, a good engineer stays current and keeps his company in good technical standing, and bad engineers make excuses and rest on their laurels.

If you find that the language is changing around you and you can't keep up - you are most likely doing your company more harm than good.

"It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles."

It is the only natively compiled language that I know of that tries to offer those things.

Cmon, this is a real improvement to the functionality provided by modern linux terminals. I think it's cool as hell.

Microsoft has confused security with authority. Or perhaps they think they are synonyms.

Regardless I think Linus responded quite appropriately.

Is it better for there to be two jobs at $8-hr or one job at $16-hr?

Just because an individual makes more money with a higher minimum wage does not mean the workforce overall is going to be in better shape.

If there are alternatives, then the wait will probably be short. If there aren't, then you should suck it up as long as you can.

Keep in mind, if you pay for service and they don't provide it, you are due a refund. This is quite separate from whether or not you choose to do business with them in the future.

There is a difference between taking action and making a difference. I was suggesting that they could not be effective, not that they couldn't act out.

Also, I think the Buddha had the last meaningful word on a human beings ability to stop change, and that was a few thousand years ago.