David Gerard writes

really, i was gonna say "cry me a river" and move on but, after a closer look ... this is not a hoax, right? what a continued display of retardeness!!! such idiotic people actually do exist and they write on the internets. is that news?

the availability of fancy code constructs (like closures and lambdas) is the last concern when it comes to choosing a software development platform. they may be a "nice to have" but what you want to priotitize is reliability, efficience, maintainability, stability, availability of tools, that sort of things.

and of course platform indpendence. so what has c# to do with this at all? it isn't even an option if you value platform independence. parent cited groovy and scala. well, there you have some fancyness that you can get for free *on top* of java, while all the pros and advantages of the java platform still apply. it's a different issue where it really just comes down to perceived language fancyness. opinionism, if you ask me, but everything else is the same.

too young to die but too old to java? late for what?

which are java emmiters ... so what's your point? you seem to sugest that while it's ok for you to "cut edge" thanks to some platform, it's not ok for that same platform to "cut edge" too? why? if you are worried about competition, don't: it's oracle! let them do their thing. they'll be around for a while anyway.

i'd argue that the sample is too specific. you don't really need extra commited support at the database implementation level unless you have very strong mission critical requirements, and that's the exception, not the norm.

oss enterprise solutions are that much mature already, most business routinely run oss databases, appservers, reporting and developement tools and even operating systems without incurring in extra support cost. if you really need id, it's there, and of course it will be expensive, because it implies commitment. (just with oss you don't have an agent calling you every other month to tell you how desperately you need it).

this does happen in medium-big software companies too. not because of lack of resources, but because of poor management or just because "existing workers might have trouble getting stuff done *right* because of 'other priorities' ".

well, in terms of price/performance ratio mysql/mariaDB simply cannot be beaten :D

bytheway, as someone who grew up in engineering using db2, I can tell you oracle and sqlserver are two steaming piles of expensive crap. if you use them, you are doing it wrong, you should look for more value for your money.

so this guy is a designer, 3d modeller, programmer, system tester, hardware geek, seasoned basher and whatnot. and a writer.
no wonder TFA didn't make any sense whatsoever.

have modpoints, but can't find the "Wishful thinking" tag.

cool, because that's everything i would ever want do in the cloud.

i'm lost. what features? and what's wrong with client side implementation of them?

well, seems science is converging with intuition. that's good news, we need both.

a prisoner makes for a bad victim because he's already a stigmatized subject, a social reject. a femenine victim has much more emotional impact, even though the act is totally equivalent. also, you should note that these kind of jokes are mostly a male phenomenon, and that's basically just defensive projection of fear (of social rejection, mostly, maybe even self disorientation). sorry for taking away credit of "north american culture" for this, but this is basically a "macho" issue, which sadly is a pervasive trait in cultures all around the planet.

and I am also convinced that humor and jokes are the best path to criticism, discovery and knowledge, and that there should be no taboos. but sorry that's not the case with the average prison-rape or soap joke. there's no intelligent process nor reflection there to witness. it's just plain fear and social cliche.

sorry, what?

if there's code to run in something, the quality of that code directly determines the quality of that, whatever it is. sure there's much more than just code to quality, but with shitty code you guarantee yourself have a shitty product for any reasonable(?) interpretation of quality.

what actually is often pretty unrelated to quality is commercial success.

and i meant "salvaged" :)

just as a sidenote, it was the royal navy, actually, who savaged enigma machines and codebooks from subs. prior to that the folks at BP were completely lost, they couldn't crack shit (obviously, because the crypto was actually quite imrpessing for the time) and were considered just a bunch of useless weird nerds by high command. from there on, with something to get started with, taken seriously and with proper funding, they started rolling things out.

there is some pararllelism in looting subs and seizing laptops. both are variations of the $5 wrench attack.

the difference, though, is that the raided subs were commanded by a terrorist and totalitarian state in open war, whereas the stolen laptop was the property of civillians trying to expose terrorist and totalitarian states. see now what has happened to our world?

why must you ridicule some irrelevant minion of big insect media to get your point across?