Whoops - he didn't say that it was 16-bit colour. Try reading again. He is talking about the CPU - which around that time were 16-bit 286's (or Amiga/ST 16-bit motorola's).

What if the main VM already has optimised sorting algorithms like most do? Then you would have to come up with another strawman argument.

If you aren't happy with the performance of the existing sorting library functions, then that is when you should investigate alternatives or writing your own.

No - there are interviews out there with members of the actual Twitter development team that specifically state they ditched Ruby because it couldn't scale.

It was nothing to do with the database. Revisionist history much?

Let me guess, you use Ruby and don't like the fact that it might not be the be-all and end-all?

Why do shops like Twitter, Ebay, Google use Java so heavily then? They run the highest volume websites in the world. Kind of blows your argument about using ASM or C out of the water. If Java was slow then they wouldn't have used it. Java is slow, if you don't have a clue what you're doing. I assume thats why you think its slow.

I've been using Windows Vista for 6 years as a dev environemnt (also do dev on native Mac, Ubuntu and Win 7) - and have NEVER had a driver problem. Just like the other 99.99999999% of Windows Vista users out there.

in Melbourne, and out of 130 applicants, only 3 were female. There was a wide mix of different nationalities represented - by far the heaviest concentration of applicants were from Asian countries.

and oneday when you find out that memory management and allocation in Java out performs that in a C++ program, specifically because of the GC algorithms, you will still be scratching your head wondering why. Try googling 'heap fragmentation' sometime.

Implementing off the shelf solutions is not really software development, even when customization is required.

I don't know what sort of projects you've worked on, but an enterprise level project requires a massive understanding of the business, its processes and its clients. You cannot pick that up in a month - 18 months would be about right, to get the minimum understanding of those. On the other hand, if you are just there to build web pages, or desktop GUIs, then sure, you could become productive in a month - but you're not going to be adding value to the company.

I didn't read your whole comment, but you are misunderstanding what college/university education is for - its not to teach a trade, its to teach a mind how to critically think and solve problems in the programming domain, and how to document them.

No matter what you do at college, you are always going to take a minimum of 2 years to become a productive asset in the industry - there is no way to shortcut that process.

You are correct in some regards, but you also fail to mention the dozens of absolutely useless degrees that people sign up for that clearly have no job prospects whatsoever at the end, yet they still pursue them. Where I come from (a small country, not the US), there are 20 times the number of graduates each year in Psychology as there are in Computer Science, despite there being barely any jobs in the former, and tens of thousands of unfilled jobs in the latter. There are also thousands of graduates a year with brilliant degrees like Women and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Classical Studies, Art History, Social Studies, Asian Studies, Pacific Studies etc that go into their degree knowing there aren't any jobs in that field at all in our country, and then when they finish up all they can get is basic retail work and they sit around complaining that they don't get paid enough.

Dude, the first two catacomb games were not 3D. At least check wikipedia or something before trying to act like the boss.

In real life, 100% of the time, the guys who boast about how many girls they've had or how great they are in bed, without fail, are those who don't get much at all, and have massive self esteem problems. You're a textbook example.

I don't believe that - unless you have a screen the size of a small movie theatre your eye cannot distinguish between 4k and 1080p resolution pixels.

Problem is, you are having to do consulting work on top of selling apps - which in itself proves that you are not making enough to live from app sales. You've pretty much confirmed what the parent poster said - that its pretty hard for indie app developers to make a living.