True. But even if you type looking at the keyboard, you can quickly look up and see what your searches are so far and if you spelled anything wrong. Than you can easily backspace and correct. This is also helpful when you are searching for something but you do not know what the keywords are. I think users will see after using instant search for a while, it is a bit faster.

One thing that doesn't work is the site: feature. If you start to specify site:, instant search is turned and wants you to submit your search...even after a valid domain is typed.

AGREED!

I missed out on C by a couple of years and Java is my first language. Because of various blogs, curiosity and /. I always try and think in terms of memory and the stack.

Oh, and becoming proficient in C is on my todo list

Yes, I agree with that, but only in terms of evolutionary biology.
But if I had to choose between great genetics or great culture I would choose culture.

Well put. It doesn't have to do with what country someone is from or the color of their skin. Everything is about culture and our environment. We are all humans and we are shaped by our environment. Genetics might play a small role in the beginning and throughout someones life, but environment is the big picture.

WRONG! Read the comments above again.

jridley stated, "Science progresses when previous theories are shown to be incorrect or incomplete, and are revised or replaced."

If a claim has been falsified (you need to cite one), then it has been revised, changed, modified, etc. That is the idea here. If science is wrong, it will admit it and continue to explore what is correct.

I always thought that a healthy "free market" is where the consumers drive the competition with their vote to buy or not to buy a product. Take the cell phone industry for example.

Libertarian of course.

And even pick out 100 random programmers and how many would answer yes?

And it isn't so much bashing, but more like making fun of.

I live in Chicago and had two friends go to DePaul. One was in an accelerated program that was a joke to say the most. It is all about MONEY.

Point well taken.

But I will play the numbers and bet that my house or my neighbors house will never start on fire.

I'm a poor Java guy that will write an Ant script to run a build that inside of it has a compile task (subset). We (past two companies I worked at) do not use compile and build interchangeably.

Anyway, from your original comment, my reply was a sad attempt at humor, not a personal attack on you personally. I think most /. comments are on the comments, not the person.

Actually, with police around, people here in Chicago are still getting killed. I'd much rather have an automatic to defend myself.
Fire....ummm, they will never get there in time to save my home or family. I have smoke detectors and fire insurance.
Court system. Coruption. I served as a juror for a drunk and driving case. The jury just wanted to go home, and not lose another day of pay. He clearly deserved a DUI, but we found him not guilty because the state attorney did a terrible job of finding him 'guilty without reasonable doubt'.
I'd much rather keep my tax dollars and fend for myself.
Read Patri Freedman

Oops, they really got you strung tight over there.
Are't you using an IDE like Eclipse? It compiles in real-time so to speak. Unless you meant to say build.

This is also where my tax dollars are going? I have yet to find something good out of paying taxes.