Notepad in Windows 95 had a maximum file size of 64K.

Rust, Go, and D have completely different use cases than C#. It's like saying that C became irrelevant when C++ came out. Besides, Scala has more to offer than C#, and googling "EPFL lawsuit" gives you "Did you mean USFL lawsuit?"

"Native look and feel" is pretty much a bullshit argument. If it were important, web applications would never have taken off. The important thing is that a UI is attractive and functional, not that it looks exactly like the UI in other applications. Even Microsoft and Apple products often don't have "native look and feel" because they're pushing some new thing like the Ribbon.

You can also write games as VBA macros in Excel, that doesn't make it a gaming platform. HTML and CSS are fundamentally document-oriented. Just because you can shoehorn applications into it doesn't mean it's not a huge pain compared to creating traditional desktop applications.

I wonder how much of that is just perception - I have found that when comparing the latest Chrome and Firefox that Firefox has better performance, at least in terms of CPU usage and memory consumption. I was surprised by this because I generally use it with Firebug which drastically impairs the performance, I just didn't realize how bad it was.

Either you trust the person or you don't. If you do, tell them to use the last two weeks to resolve any unfinished business and make sure the people left behind have the appropriate information to take over. The person doing the work that needs to be transferred know better than anyone what needs to be done. If you don't trust them, just have security escort them out immediately.

It looks like a browser. Screenshots don't really tell you anything about a web browser's performance and compatibility, which is the most important thing. OTOH, there is an unbelievable amount of wasted screen space on those screenshots, Displaying the time horizontally and off center like that is both ugly and stupid.

It's pretty hard to fuck up a class that's just a collection of getters and setters. It was probably autogenerated anyway.

I know you said not to say it, but I'll say it anyway - it's because they're not interested. It's not like they're getting thrown out of the registrar's office when they try to sign up for CS classes.

Thanks, I'll have to stop having Amazon donate money to FSF every time I buy something there... BTW, how old is that? It looks like it was when Amazon mostly sold books.

FWIW, I used to work at a webhosting company, there are a few reasons it costs more money. Aside from the obvious (licensing costs) it requires more hardware per hosted site, and is much more costly time consuming to administer (I could fix most problems on a Linux server faster than I could RDP into a Windows server).

99% of the deployments I would consider MySQL for are low-volume PHP sites that will be deployed on shared Linux hosting, so no.

I work on a large data-driven application. At the insistence of a couple of large customers, we have to support MSSQL on the backend in addition to Postgres. MSSQL is the bane of my existence.

Possible? That is how it will always happen when there is no/limited choice.

If I don't have voice mail, who is going to answer the phone? I don't want to sit there listening to it ring all day.