And to add to the FYI:

Ai is a girls name, and a word meaning either "love" or "indigo" depending on the context. Hence for the people calling this an "ai-bot"...thats something *completely* different.

And slashdot STILL doesnt support unicode :/

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/plague

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Almost but not quite: I've been working with CoffeeScript which "compiles" to JavaScript and combined with JQuery its actually nice to work with....as long as one remembers to be exacting in commenting method parameter and return types. Exacting...

"Spelling isn't important when writing. Thats what the word processor is for!"....."lol"

You're me at 13 aren't you? :)

I *hear* that MS has a culture of fear, where lower levels are basically expected to kowtow to the management line. A company without dissent and an environment where employees can air and discuss their opinions is VERY bad since decision making then lays in the hands of the select few, and when mistakes are being made, people are prevented from even pointing out those mistakes.

So far we've seen the disasters of Surface pro, Windows 8 metro, XBone, and I'm sure there are others I'm missing. That a company could have such a litany of product disasters suggests that the culture doesn't exist where *innovative & good* products can be made anymore (MS does have good products but these tend to be either their mainstays e.g. office, rebadged hardware).

The blame for this *has* to rest at the top.

I dont understand the problems that people have with it. I spent an hours learning it, I kept an open mind and ended up really liking it.

That said - 90% of what I do requires a shell so maybe Im missing something....

Interesting, would you care to expand?

I hate JavaScript but I've been using CoffeeScript for a project and I've been reasonably impressed at how it removes many of the worse parts of JS - how does TypeScript differ/improve on Coffee?

Funnily enough, so were the satellite, mobile phone, trips to the moon, voyages to the bottom of the sea etc.

Now if the OP had referred to "Type" rather than level, he would have been referencing the Kardashev scale which is a genuine metric...the fact that it might we have evidence of only a single civilization to measure using that metric is immaterial.

As a 41 year old (software) engineer...I sort of wish that were true.

But it results in the paymasters of the politicians gaining access to information that is of great financial benefit to *them*.

I seem to recall reading that the return on investment for the US economy from the 1960s space program was something like 100-1. Today government investment in a space program acts as investment for private companies to develop new technologies - and I would be unsurprised to discover that the return is still not above 10-1 from an economic perspective.

If you really want to attack waste of money spending there are FAR better targets.

The Russian search engine Yandex is one of the sources for duckduckgo. We need them because they help to maintain our privacy.

Three? I wish:

1: Rails Server output
2: Sinatra Server output
3: Editor - coffeescript
4: Editor - scss
5: Editor - Sinatra/Rails server
6: Editor - Tests
7: Browser - app
8: Browser - research
9: JS debugger

Number of monitors? 1. I cry at night.