Comment 'If Apple is BMW, you can be Porsche.' (Score 1) 745
Have you ever looked at an open source project, and exclaimed "Holy Porsche"?! Never, right?
Comment I don't care... (Score 1) 494
In India (south), even in last century, people used to write into palm leaves with a needle. I can not do that now, and I don't care. you will forget to type in couple of decades, when mind-computer interfaces become commonplace. Will you worry about your typing then ?
Comment Re:Wrong Side (Score 1) 178
cattle to steal
this is a way to start war. cattle then, oil now.
Comment don't drop it down (Score 1) 169
I will be able to use my netbook as a cell phone
if you carry your netbook wherever you go, then chances are high for you to drop it down. is your netbook that tough ?!
Comment suppose, we have better batteries... (Score 1) 390
then, who cares about ARM. 10 years battery life for ARM based processors, 1 year for x86-based. :)
Comment Come, Let us all learn English, and (Score 1) 1077
build "tower of babel" :)
Comment Re:English thinking? (Score 1) 1077
I'm Russian, and computer languages with Russian keywords look very awkward to me.
That is because, may be you started coding with English. Everything will be fine, once you are used to it.
PS: I am not a Russian, and I haven't seen non-English code so far.
Comment not because of ... (Score 1) 191
languages (?!) are getting faster and faster, because of more memory and faster processors ? right ? :)
Comment luck matters (Score 1) 238
sometimes you got to be lucky to fix some kind of bugs. sigh.
Comment Re:...and then there's APL (Score 1) 311
APL has been called a "write-only language".
write-only..? how about execution..?
Comment to empty a file (Score 1) 2362
echo > file
Submission + - Bugs story
v4vijayakumar writes: "I would wonder, if you are never stopped by a compiler/linker when you are developing softwares. Sometimes, it would be core dumps and page/segment faults. Some bugs are also interesting and leave their memories. First computer "bug" itself is an example for this. Errors/mistakes are not specific to softwares, even everyone of us should have stories to tell."
