I came here to say this. Language matters.

You have color graphics? I'm still using my monochrome 80 column card...

Another vote for Yii.

We've used it to develop a mission critical B-to-B site for a client, and it's been a pleasure. It's very well architected, and there are extensions out there for handling almost any need you might have (anything we've come up with, in any case).

I anticipate any future PHP work we do will use it.

When vim 6 was in testing I ran into a small problem with one of the release candidates. Something minor that probably only affected me and a small set of other users. I emailed bugs@vim.org, and in less than 24 hours I got a personal response from Bram who told me he had replicated it and thanked me for my example. It was fixed in the next candidate.

I would be pleased with that kind of responsiveness from a commercial software vender.

GUI? Dude, I can promise you that there was no GUI in Turbo Pascal back in 1986. Also, it was the most amazing development environment back then. A decent editor tied to a fast compiler that would run on computers with 4Mhz chips, 128k of memory, and a floppy drive. I wrote some cool *@#$ with turbo pascal back then.

That aside, I'm pretty sure nobody here is saying that they want to go back to coding in Turbo Pascal. It's more of a gee wiz fact.

I was skeptical, but my skepticism was misplaced.

Here's a research article from the NY Fed back in 2002 about how banks even avoid the checking account reserve requirements by using "sweep accounts" overnight:
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/02v08n1/0205benn/0205benn.html

"In the most common form of sweeping, funds in bank customers' retail checking accounts are shifted overnight into savings accounts exempt from reserve requirements and then returned to customers' checking accounts the next business day. "

Personally, I find the zero reserve banking system to be pretty worrisome. I can't help but think that much of the bank deregulation from that last 30 years has gotten us where we are now.

The ray bounces!
The ray hits you!
You die...

Yeah, that was my first thought. I'm pretty long in the tooth myself, but for the most part, if something has been forgotten, it's because it is no longer of use.

Sure things come back (the mobile app market is a good example), and this becomes a great opportunity for the older generation to pass on information to the younger. But I'm not going to miss the days where you had to figure out how to handle your data set when you couldn't use more than 64k of consecutive memory.

You clearly didn't click on his link, where you would have been disabused of your notion.

I totally read your comment in the the voice of Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science.

At the local PC bang playing starcraft/broodwar?

Wow, man. I don't think I've ever seen anyone argue so fervently that a subjective reaction is not in fact subjective. I'm picturing you running down 15 year old girls and shouting, "Twilight is NOT a good book. You DO NOT like it!"

I assure you that there are many people that don't find SC2 multi-player to be cold and boring, as hard as that seems to be for you to wrap your head around.

You're just confused because there are two kinds of iOS haters.. The ones that think everything everything Steve Jobs touches is an overpriced piece of crap, and the ones that think that iOS is the computing equivalent of the phantom zone.

There are plenty of both types here on /.