That's a great way to ensure your code will never perform well. Architectural and algorithmic based performance issue need to be solved at the same time as correctness and understandability, or you'll never achieve it. There's levels of micro-optimizations that can wait, but people stating this kind of shit as a rule are fucking inconmpetent.

The question is- is that because sparc is better, because Oracle optimized for Sparc like mad, or because they purposely degraded the performance on x86?

But the problem isn't the 3rd world developers, its the unrealistic buyers. They aren't companies that understand tech, they're mostly individuals who don't understand that programming is work and want the sun, moon, and stars for a hundred bucks. Worse they don't know what they want or need, they just know they want/need something. You have to be designer, project manager, and developer in one, for a 3rd world salary. I don't think very many of the projects there are successful, and those that are tend to be the very simplest ones. If you have access to any job in the US, its just not worth doing. You'll make more per hour job hopping or putting the extra time into your real job in hopes of a raise/bonus.

No, but if you own bitcoins you sure as hell are. But tell you what, I'll give you a discount rate on buying all the Flooz you want.

Does anyone still think that sending money over an unregulated channel for a dubious commodity is a good idea? There's a good reason banks are one of the most regulated industries on the planet.

Have a way that wouldn't destroy the rest of society in the process? Because honestly, I'd prefer the surveillance than the utter destruction of our economy, loss of all protections against those with money, and the untold human misery their policies would create.

Depends on your accent. I get about 98% recognition. I still don't use it because its easier to type/swype.

No, they just didn't allow any checkins at all as they were "original research".

Never had to walk a tree? Recursion is usually the best solution, unless you're just walking down 1 branch. It's not a frequently used technique, but it's definitely used.

Because websites aren't available offline, are much less responsive, have security and privacy issues, provide worse UX, and are less integrated with the hardware and system so can't provide polish that other apps can (such as sound muting if the user picks up the phone). Websites are ok if your purpose is to get up to date information, but they're a poor replacement for a real app.

Yeah- now in reality that doesn't happen. The whole lone programmer thing is almost completely a myth- pretty much all non-trivial programs are worked on by a team. At the absolute best you'll get someone who comes up with a new algorithm to do something by himself, but even then it will be one part of a larger whole that will need to be worked on by the full team.

Both. But in this case I meant the second one. In reality Lisp is dead as a doornail, and the rest of the functional languages with it.

No, they don't. But a lot of academics like to think they do.

Depends on your definition of harm. The money the people had to spend doesn't disappear- it gets spent in other ways. Many of those other ways will be local businesses, which will improve the local economy. The long term effect may be positive. Especially with software that can just be pirated.

Sorry, you're wrong. By your definition, this post is programming because I'm encoding commands for what should be displayed on screen in the form of ascii commands. HTML and CSS are not programming, they're design.