In other news, a post on Slashdot leads to attacks on several US pipelines as well as a small dog wearing a red, white, and blue sweater.

I couldn't agree more. The interesting thing is that I lead a team of rock star developers but I'm constantly grappling with a sort of self-image crisis wherein I'm trying to figure out if I'm a rock star or a cowboy. I know I can code but it's easy when you're in charge and get to make the final decision. I try to give my team a huge amount of a autonomy but I still believe it's harder to be in their shoes, since any one of them could do my job. Despite that they achieve excellence every day and produce the highest quality code and product that I've ever experienced. Regardless, you're right: these are the true rock stars as they are selfless and superb at the same time.

Nah, this is pretty well established.

Yes, I agree. Unfortunately the GOP is much more about social conservatism these days than about fiscal. And when they do talk economics they focus on 1% of the federal budget type stuff and ignore the pentagon programs (venting here because I've been party to huge amounts of waste on the defense side).

Take your science and your math somewhere else. If we were interested in facts and evidence we wouldn't have joined the GOP.

Did anyone else feel like they basically were like, ok hold up! And then someone came out and painted the robot?

Exactly, and how do you even demonstrate that this is the case five or ten years out? How do you compare the two solutions?

You mean lotus notes?

Please don't throw Java in the same boat as C#. Yes, they're both managed languages but C# is much a better thought-out language and is actually pleasant to use. Granted it had the benefit of hindsight, but then that's what MS is good at - taking good ideas and polishing them. I know a lot of people will say ruining them, but that's typically people who are so mired in their particular religion that they can't see past their noses. I've spent years working in Linux, Java, Windows, C, C++, C#, and Mono. In my opinion, anyone who dismisses MS tech out of hand hasn't really given it a chance.

C# programmers are the most highly paid right now but slashdot doesn't really take it seriously because it's related to MS. It's a shame because it's a phenomenal language and .NET is one of the best designed libraries since the STL.

I can tell.

Save it pal, I've coded on both linux and MS for years and you're not going to convince me that the experience on linux comes anywhere close to what it is on windows. Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.

You're right, better that our quantum computers only be available in one model that's produced by one company. Or maybe it'll run an operating system that comes in 101 different flavors. Who wants a generic, hardware agnostic, fairly open and friendly OS after all?

Did I read the article correctly that this was funded by Microsoft? That's sort of coolish...

In other news, Google discovers the value of namespaces. Seriously, I am so tired of new languages with no real reason for being other than "because we could".