Have you considered she might enjoy doing it? Seems like a good enough reason to me.

I downloaded it and gave it a try, but I'm going to stick with DuckDuckGo. In my experience the results have been as good as or better than Google and if I don't find what I'm looking for, it also gives links to do the search in Google or Bing.

As a developer I could care less about Java itself. It's the new Cobol.

It's in an awkward spot. For anything high level I'd rather just use Python. And for the few cases where Python's not fast enough, it's easiest to jump down to C++ and write a module I can call from Python.

The best thing about this new release are JVM improvements for dynamic languages, which should help out projects like Jython, JRuby and Scala.

I don't think that makes sense.

The youth of tomorrow will never buy physical books like the youth of today have never bought cassette tapes. That doesn't mean they won't read or buy ebooks.

So trivial that 2to3.py, which comes with Python 3, will do it automatically.

What skills? Setting up an LLC requires filling out a questionnaire and paying a $50-$100 (depending on state) processing fee. Most states let you do it over the internet. It takes like 10 minutes.

FWIW, there are situations where an LLC (or corporation) doesn't shield the owners from liability. I don't remember all the details, but it wouldn't surprise me if tax fraud was one of them.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a new language, but IMO Qt is what the C++ standard library should have been.

The C++ standard library and STL are terrible compared to the standard libraries of any other modern languages. Qt actually makes C++ programming fairly painless.

So instead he's just going to sit back and demand that somebody else put in all that effort so he can take advantage of it?

Any takers? Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new startup. Maybe this is a niche that can challenge Paypal. Take it. Run away with the idea. I don't care who implements it, as long as it gets implemented.

If you think it's such a good idea, implement it yourself.

Is that a joke? There are a bunch of ad blockers for Chrome. My favorite is AdThwart. But the regular AdBlock works well also. They're at least as good, if not better, than the ad blockers available for Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror.