Goobuntu runs on Macs just fine.

People talk about so and so site being safe when Google marks them unsafe, but time and time again it's shown that those sites WERE in fact infected - usually from a third-party ad network.

You are perfectly capable of NOT buying it.

No, but they'd be bad drivers causing accidents even if they didn't have phones. Accident rates didn't go up when phones became popular and didn't go down when states banned them. The drivers are the issue, not the devices.

I suppose as long as the programmers are ACTUALLY equally skilled it would be fine, but from what I've actually experienced in the real programming world, the C++ programmers are generally all fairly experienced skilled programmers who write effective efficient code. With Java programmers, I have seen quite the opposite, sure there are those experienced skilled programmers who could compete, but a LOT of Java programmers even ones with equal 10-12 years of experience, suck monkey balls at actually writing efficient code. Instead they write code that's JUUUST good enough. That said I know a number of people in the HFT market and the programming languages are ALL over the place, sure some of them are in Java and some are in C++, but there's not any one dominating language: there's plenty of Python, Scala, Perl, Groovy, and probably every language you can image. I believe Perl is actually still the biggest language because a lot of the financial analysts can actually write it directly and so do stuff that the front end systems don't normally allow.

There's no point in comparing the two. There's almost 0 crossover between what they are developing for except for a few Node.JS and C++ developers and even those are pretty rare.

This is 100% true. I don't think I've ever seen a Judge say something like this one did. Seem 100% guarantee of a new trial upon apeal.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ http://tnx.nl/php.jpg http://www.quora.com/PHP/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers It's a bad horrible language, and why should I or anyone else be forced to use it.

Oh wow! Just what I needed, yet another CMS built in PHP that requires MySQL as the database backend. If I really wanted to be pained by that, I'd use concrete5. In reality, I'd choose Radiant, typo or refinery LONG before I'd choose anything PHP developed.

It really all depends on the particulars of the application, but in many cases they are totally correct that putting the logic in the application can be much more scalable. Often these are not all or nothing type arguments. It may be that you need a mix of traditional SQL for some stuff with business rules and all that jazz, another SQL setup for hosting certain types of dynamic data and then a NoSQL setup for the unstructured data. There is no one solution for all troubles, that's just the way it is.

AC is 100% correct provided we're dealing with a local Access database and not Access fronting a SQL Server - in the latter case, all of the queries and what not take place on the SQL Server and not on the client. The latter case is not uncommon with Internal Applications that started off as an Access application and were later converted to run on SQL Server.

Actually a number of the older embedded platforms I've programmed for DID in fact use gcc+patches, usually with proprietary stuff added all around. I believe for most of the microcontrollers supported by Keil, the compiler is based on GCC (often the older 2.x series.)

While the GPLv3 was the reason Apple suddenly invested in clang (which just happens to ride on llvm), it has little effect on any companies that do what they should do.

The US - still the best place to live and the whole "debt" issue is really not a huge deal.

It has been my experience that they don't believe that people have real names like Hunter, Yearly, color name, Happy, and lots of other common English words. - if there's a question, they should ask for proof and give you x amount of time before they just disable the account.