fromage!

mods, if you downmod lighthearted humorous comments like parent, you are wishing for a gray world to live in.

"It seems like MS has accepted that they've lost the battle (if not the war) as far as Linux as a cloud-based app server is concerned."

either that or they are "embracing" it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

I'm not a Hillary fanboy by any stretch of the imagination.

but few individuals in the world have been vetted and scrutinized as much as her, for decades and decades, by domestic and foreign friends and foes, friendly and hostile services, friendly and hostile papers, etc. etc

it's hard to believe that she could possibly hide any major skeletons left in the closet. still possible, but very unlikely: too many powerful people dislike her enough to not leave any stones unturned.

I mean, goodbye hello.

it's a case of misleading headlines (yeah, shocking)

as others have pointed out, the authors don't make any claim that their list represents the 'most popular languages', just that those languages enjoy particularly high visibility on two specific platforms - github and stack overflow.

you have a virtually infinite number of ways to count "popularity", some more useful than others, but each of them inevitably somewhat arbitrary.
last time I checked, oracle claimed java to be the world's most popular language, and by the way they measure it, they must be right.
heck, you could instead count each web pageview with one line of js as instance of 'program execution', count the big number and have a different winner. don't take it too seriously.

I think you guys both have a point and just talk past each other.
At this point, Win and Linux are largely interchangeable for the vast majority of user needs.

Most people these days need just a browser, and at most maybe a mail client, something to play music, to browse their pictures of puppies etc.

If you stick to that, and just click the big default icons on your desktop, you probably won't even notice what OS you are on. Remember that this is perhaps 90% of people outside /.

If you are in certain areas of academia, though, or some specialized technical fields, you will pretty much need Linux.

Conversely, in some administrative fields, or in video editing, and other areas as well, Windows still has the best array of choices and network effects.

Note that in either case you can largely work your way around your OS limitations, even for specialized applications - if you have enough time, knowledge, patience. Arm yourself with Wine, Mono, compilers, virtual machines, open drivers and whatnot: there is no real limit on what you can do on either system, or macos for that matter.

But the people willing to take this effort, are an even smaller subset of the ones who are in need to.

You will always find a guy who does 3d image processing on his microwave - that's cool but not practical.

Yup, but I doubt it's a "technical issue" anyways...
Plenty of 3rd parties are using the Google Calendar API to update back and forth - so it cannot be rocket science.

More likely that it's a battle of corporate overlords ("do we have more to gain or more to lose, if we allow this?")

you know, without hacks, 3rd party synchronizers, gapps subscription, etc etc.
just painless straightforward two way synchronization like almost any other calendar client does.

genuinely interested to know if it works. last time I checked it was a nightmare.

It is reminiscent of an aging relative who makes poo comments at funerals.
Perhaps my Uncle Poo is joking - who can really tell for sure?

Uncle Poo's has a jovial nature and a certain "in your face" attitude that at times makes him popular in his circle.

Despite this, we know better than leaving him alone with strangers, or letting him handle sharp knives.
Most definitely, we really know better than letting him close to any National Security responsibility.

We love Uncle Poo. And sometimes it's fun to see him breaking rules.
He's not someone I would want in Office, for the love of my life.

"Waiting for a tesla to drive through a large pane of glass...."

As opposed to human drivers, who are known to masterfully avoid all those frequent large panes of glass that suddenly appear on your way while you are driving on the highway.

Yeah, right?
It's not like he has a history of, say, putting actual rockets in space, or building an EV from scratch, or anything like that.
It's absurd that people are paying any attention at all, right?

http://www.nature.com/scitable...
I'll stick with the medical abomination for now.

exactly! shockingly, some people wrote some books and some were wrong. we should reject all human knowledge or expertise and revert to the rule of the biggest club. that will show them.