You do know that feminism isn't about hating on men or trying to mooch off society right? Evidently you don't.
Depends on which feminists you are talking about. Are you really unaware of the wide spectrum of activism that falls under the term "feminism"?
if I put my phone to sleep on Friday when I leave the office, it's dead when I come in on Monday.
Uh...
It's not just my phone, but all other members on my team too.
That's it. I'm calling the police.
Whoosh. He's not talking about C# son..... We're a little older than that.
O my apparent father, as you are a well-aged and wise AC, please enlighten the rest of us. When wcrowe said "You mean C#?", what was he talking about if it was not C#?
Yah... a language that made it out the door a DECADE after Java...
Yeah, I love that C# came out a decade after Java, and they had opportunity to see what Java did badly and change it.
and yet I can still run a 20-year-old Java program unmodified without any issues on my Linux box.
That's cool.
Heck, my first applets from '95 still run!
[unnecessarily harsh]But of course nobody cares about your applets.[/unnecessarily harsh]
Try that with C#... on Windows from a decade ago, and you'll quickly see which setup has aged better.
I don't really care which has aged better in the past. I care about mainstream adoption _today_, and about which language as it exists _today_ is more powerful, expressive, maintainable, etc. If I program Java today, I won't restrict myself to the language subset from 20 years ago, and similarly I am happy to use new C# features that kick Java's behind (like async, var keyword, and embarrassingly many others).
The big missing perspective from your rant is that software engineering is a forward looking discipline, not a backward looking one.
Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish