You will be saying people still use it next.

I dunno. A lot of the artists would probably like a way to jazz up the sites (hideous) interface and get some proper payment/subscription options. That would push it into (virtual goods) Etsy territory.

Also, they could rebuild the site in Wix and it couldn't be any worse than it is now.

1 - However much you spend on wired phones, the wire will eventually fray and break.
2 - Sound is sssssooooo much beter on wireless phones as its not relying on the charge through the phones cable to make the sound.

I would never go back.

C is just Assembler with training wheels on it.

I have been a programmer 25 years and I have never had to manage memory in my life, and nor would i want to start managing it now. I wrote my first iOS app before they implemented ARC (automatic reference counting) and i swore blind i would never write another. I think a lot of people thought the same thing and ARC appeared with the next xcode release. There are more important things in programming then wondering if you can delete an array safely.

As parent said, JS first, C# second and thats it. You can learn JS with just a browser and a text editor. For C# you need the community edition which pretty much lets you code anything from Hello World to a website.

C and C++ just have too much baggage associated with them.

Compared to everyone else, you do.

Yeah, I mean it's not rocket science.

Stoopid. You don't measure your mining in current $, you measure it in what it will be worth in 6 month time when 1BTC=$1000000. In that respect he has lost a lot of money. ;)

I know Visual Studio is clunky but can open source provide anything as powerful? By that i mean you can debug/step through code in the web page, the middle tier and even in managed stored procedures in the database, all from the same IDE. Not having to swap between three different applications, from three different sources. Can OS do anything similar?

Personally there was the first Star Wars film that came out when I was 7. Full stop. Even Empire and Jedi seemed a bit unnecessary to me. I do remember talk of there being 9 films at the time though.

Yeah, because I would love to spend my time maintaining something that is no longer supported, while my skill set slowly goes the same way as my will to live.

You really need to badger your managers to upgrade things every couple of years or so. If you do it continually then it is not going to be as painful as jumping a couple of releases of the language in one go. Unless you do new stuff and use the latest technologies then your working practices are going to remain the same. Things move fast these days (though not that fast in the python world). To reference a language I am more familiar with, I am sure a C# application written in .Net 1 would probably still compile and run on a new machine, however, whatever it is doing, you can guarantee there are better ways of doing it these days. Probably in half the code.

I tried that but it still says "BillGatesSux" is taken.

Can we bring up Pat Metheney and his Orchestrion at this point? He has an orchestra full of real instruments that he can play with his guitar, sort of like MIDI for real instruments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VymAn8QJNQ

>>I would do the same with a Rapsberry Pi, some USB display, and a battery,

LOL!