Python has more or less bridged the gap between scripting languages and programming languages. What do you think about it?

You are the prerequisite for a programmer. I consider myself a fairly decent (although by no way expert) programmer, but I can do nothing when my machine is down. I do not understand about network architectures and various related problems. I need somebody to make my machine run smooth and nicely, and I can take it from there. But people like me are very grateful to people like you!

That makes you an expert. No programmer is as bad as the one who wants to stick in every feature (s)he can find, just for the feature's sake, without it adding anything to the program.

No company wants to hire a muslim.

So an employer can either cite a law that allows the company to do this, when a muslim applies for a job, or, as was always the case before these laws, use vague arguments such as 'we have found an other candidate that better fits in the existing team' or 'an other candidate better fits the current company culture.'

So effectively, nothing changes, just the way it is motivated changes.

5 to 6 square kilometers. Or 125 to 150 square furlong, in equestrian racing units, or 45 to 54 square kilofoot, in freedom units.

That is quite surprising, because China is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of solar panels, and has a lot of open area with a lot of sunshine. An much easier and much cheaper solution seems to be at hand. This makes me think that the orbital city-zappe... uh... I mean... solar power plant is not entirely what it appears to be.

Secret Service? And we are reading about what it does on Slashdot... Not so so secret, are you?

Yeah, yeah, I got it. No need to put on the sarcasm generator. ;-)

Do they not lease a connection, with a certain speed, and that's that? Data caps are a thing of the nineties...

Is just paying more than you have too for performance, but you get some design in return.

As a developer, it is the performance that counts, so no Apple stuff. Easy as 1-2-3.

Indeed. But in defense of OpenCL, These three pages are mostly initialisation stuff. Once you have that done, the remainder of the code is similar in length to the length it would have were it written in CUDA.

And then, a Hello World in CUDA is about eight lines. A Hello World in OpenCL is three pages.

That all depends on the graphics you use. I run many games on my 6 year old i7 920, with an equally old NVIDIA GTX 265. The card is old, but for the games I like, it is more than sufficient. It all depends on how much 3D stuff you want to use.

Gaming on Linux is done with NVIDIA.

The fact that hereditary edits can me made, does not imply that we can immediately cure all hereditary diseases as well.

Although, do not mistake me, I am all for it, were we able to remove those diseases from the world.