aah if I had a bitcoin for every non bitcoin-hijacked thread I saw ... crap.

SELECT * FROM User GROUP BY Clue;

    Joke
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    Woosh

And grr no they're not junk characters, you junk comment filter yourself. Please be damned to your 0xffff generation you filthy random bag of bits. What do you want me to do ? Type random sentences in the comment box ? That's what you want ? yes ? because I can definitely do that. Hey, I said I entered random sentences ! now accept my post!

No, the inventor *of* dynamite as a weapon was Alfred Nobel. He had remorse about it and created a peace prize.

Olbligatory xkcd : http://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

that's why for many databases I'm an afghan of 13, - or a student of 93 yo if adult is needed -currently retired from aeronautics (or whichever comes first in the drop down list), living at 1, GOTNOADDRESS st IGOTNOTOWN, or whatever. And I give false answers to any obvious commercial data gathering (but I never lie about my keyboard preferences on slash polls - if they still exists)

and yet, those geniuses and 33 years of improvement devised the most horrendous plug with this brittle plastic thing (no nylon, only super breakable transparent plastic) which breaks every. single. fucking. time and thus render your cable to something that unplugs when you look at it funny. Then begins the hunt of a new, perfect and all clicky cable which lasts 3 days and ... aaaargh ! who broke my plug !!!

(* slow claps* well played, fucking geniuses.) - I know I'm bad faith, but still.

Floating point operations per second per second ? On an ATM machine ?

But not interactive nor multiscreen.

Yeah, how could a major semiconductor firm which is deeply in embedded electronics find chips ? Mystery ...

Easy to like anything more than most people when you don't like people.

Maybe web server software and hardware have improved also ...

Yeah ! As suggested before, colondot could use a goatse logo ... Fits well ! ( what wouldn't ?)

Sure, tell that to twitter or YouTube. or many, many other large web sites. Hint: they're not using java. Or C. or Go.
Python scaling is a moot point, you'd scale to 16 asynchronous processes on a 16 core. What needs to scale is the web server. And a load balancer. But you were talking about a number of records, where db indexes, caches and architecture + algorithms are what counts.

Not to say python is perfect, hell if you've got java devs use java. But those arguments are dumb.

"october gnome". Or, much better KDE4.0 that kde, Gnome 1.0. Aaah, those were the days. Not.