This is an article about why Java has decent staying power, not about why it is the perfect language, nor most readable language possible. The article does not say people will be using Java in 1,0000 years. But Java became popular and continues to have strong staying power for an old language. There are reasons for that, even if it isn't your cup of tea.

Slashdot, please stop posting stories that come from dice.com. Thanks.

While it's true that I am less interested in chart toppers, I am always moving and finding new styles of music. More extreme metal, folk, classical, jazz, blues, rap. I have much more diverse tastes than when I was young. And I do like new music if I think it's good.

They will generally try to steal your phone, so keep the camera on them and don't let them snatch it.

I hope IBM bets big on Agile, and it's a complete disaster, and then no one ever has to hear about Agile ever again. Oh, and I won't have to stand around like an asshole every morning while everyone explains they worked on the same thing they worked on yesterday.

If you need to support IE 7, definitely. But if you don't, you what? Use it anyway. The best of jQuery has been brought into the JavaScript language itself and other libraries. But jQuery still makes a lot of little things easier.

You could use the new querySelectorAll functionality in JavaScript, but learning that teaches you the basics of how to use jQuery. Also, I think jQuery still has a few selectors that aren't in querySelectorAll . Furthermore, querySelectorAll is very long to type.

You can use a different AJAX library, but is that library any easier or better than jQuery? You can do AJAX with no library, but bare JavaScript API is ugly.

It might be better to use Q for promises, but the API for Q is about the same as the jQuery promises API.

Again, you might get these things from other libraries but it has deep extend. It is much nicer to trigger events with jQuery. Ready is much nicer with jQuery.

Ironically, I'm going to refer you to http://youmightnotneedjquery.c... Because guess what? When you look, a lot of those things are a lot easier with jQuery and that site makes it clear.

Also, there are jQuery plugins. I don't think writing jQuery plugins is something that you want to do for a modern webapp, but you might find yourself supporting them.

How do you know there isn't enough CO2 to make this work? Can you prove your claim? We have too much in the atmosphere at the present.

Tax breaks as an economic development program. There is a similar giant program in Chicago called TIF. No one believes it actually creates jobs or anything. It's just a way for the mayor to reward his supporters and other rich people.

This isn't funny. This student violated his teacher's religious freedom.

The first supreme court justice John Jay said to vote your conscience. The people themselves are final check against stupid laws.

Yes @ script is a superset of Typescript and it will be used in Angular 2. Not really a hot news story.

It's interesting to see the exact number, but we obviously can't grok it. We want to know how many digits that number has.

They want everything, but when someone who has everything applies, they don't want to up the ante with high pay.

People keep asking why are they changing Windows when people like what they have? The answer is that new versions of Microsoft Windows will sell whether you like the new features or not. So they are using Windows for other goals. Specifically, they are using Windows for PC to accustom you to their Mobile offerings. That is their most logical way of making money and staying relevant. Just making you really like Windows 10 a lot doesn't really help them.