Tennessee has no income tax, so it relies on its almost 10% sales tax for a lot of its revenue.

So, yes, this is a big deal for them.

However, if this actually happens, I can see a cottage industry growing of sales tax databases. This would also include when states have "tax holidays", where there is no sales tax on certain items.

I don't get the argument, though, that it would be too complicated. All nationwide retail stores do it. It's just one more thing to deal with as a business owner.

The problem with Haskell, OCaml, and the like is that, despite what this author tries to beg you to believe, is that they are NOT readable, and don't boost developer productivity any more than any other language/framework.

The author has a bias - it's extremely readable to him because he's been working with it for 10 years. I imagine most of us developers would be fluent in a language after using it that long.

Personally, I think the most productive languages are the statically typed object-oriented languages (C#,Java, etc). Having dynamic typing (ruby, python) leads to a lot of runtime errors and slows down development because the developer has to think about what a method is returning, while with static type function declaration he just has to look at it.

Won't somebody please think of the children?

Not really, if you have insurance. I pay $25 for a GP visit under my insurance plan, same if it's a specialist (though, with most insurance, it's more), and $200 for an emergency room visit.

Although, I do pay $180 per month for the insurance.

No reason? Nobody calls Han Solo a bitch.

How about no, because there's more to Flash than video.

Looking back at the page on slashdot from that day, What strikes me is how the media got so much stuff wrong - which is very understandable. Ten years later, though, and this still happens constantly. The 24-hour news cycle means that news channels rush stuff on the air without knowing the full story.

I don't think that's a useful metric either. Google doesn't have thousands of large stores that individually use a lot of energy. Most of Google's energy usage comes from (I assume) the few dozen large datacenters.

Reminds me of the scene in Office Space where Peter's trying to duck out before the boss sees him and has to wait for all the processes to finish saving state.

Why should I trust your list?