Its f*ing close to water!

> It is really hard to recruit people with those skills.

Are you talking US? I'm curious if there is any demand for such people in Europe. AFAIK Europe is no longer relevant. One example: not a single mass market digital camera was produced in Europe.

I've been hearing that kind of crap for more than 10 years now and have known several startups that claimed exactly that.

Some would claim they had some cool software and you would start thinking, "oh my, how did they do it? that's truly incredible. This might be worth even more than the 200ooo$ they charge for it". The truth was that the price tag was that high so that noone could buy the software (because it was not ready yet; and in fact never materialized).

Some companies had some technology, e.g. Celoxica that did Handle-C (C variant) synthesis to FPGA. They had large offices, their employees drew BMW's but finally the bubble burst; they moved to a more modest location; and then finally sold the C synthesis business to Catalytic, a company that claimed they could synthesize MATLAB to FPGA (haha); and finally all that crap was acquired for 80(?)k $ by Mentor Graphics.

Apparently it's only programmers that say -- this sucks, I need to re-write it from scratch.

http://xkcd.com/224/

Go for Lego Mindstorms or something similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT#Programming

Will it support lambdas, auto, and initializer lists?

I hope it's not dead. I use both Gmail and Yahoo! mail and I find Y! far superior. Plus D.C. talks on JavaScript rock.

0.01$ Socialism never works.

0.01$ Polish people I know are very unhappy about their government; they say it the worst one after communism was overthrown; they have also had a lot of bitter remarks about public education. (Actually some people in Poland are on hunger strike now protesting against the removal of history lessons.) So this "free" stuff looks like the goverment is trying to improve their PR.

Just checked -- works on a "regular" Safari.

Actually, the video player is amazing -- it has captions on the side highlighting phrases there are being spoken in the video. If you click on a phrase, the video scrolls to that point. I thought -- wow, who needs Flash any more? And now you are telling me that's just a fallback version?

Last time I used IPAD I tried to edit some circuits using an MTI web app (https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ free login required, then go to Overview | Circuit Sandbox) but it did not work -- I could not move any part on the schematics. So maybe the APP has just to be fixed for the IPAD. Just saying it did not work for me and my instinct was to reach for a mouse.

I remember seeing a footage with some bureaucrat (an US president?) saying that in several years we will win the war with cancer. That was in the 70's.

> It kind of makes me wonder why no one has made a BT mouse adapter

Because it makes no sense? Steve Jobs mentioned that when Apple started the multi-touch interface they knew that all apps would have to be re-written to use this interface. So I guess mouse and multi-touch are two different worlds. Safari fires touch events, not mouse events -- touch events are used to simulate mouse events but some things do not work: (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html).

So it would be totally cool if I could use not only a wireless keyboard but also a mouse with my IPAD (and on occasion turn the IPAD into a poor's man desktop replacement), but I don't think that's possible.

My friend from Belgium (who speaks Dutch as the first language) said once: "oh, so the guy who created python is from the Netherlands? Well, I don't wanna touch it then".