Source, in case anyone was wondering.

Uh, that repo's been dead for over 4 years. Says so right in the blurb: "Currently the canonical version of the PPAPI code has moved to the Chromium subversion repo". It's heavily integrated into Chrome now, and Google control all changes, so it's hardly ideal for a cross-browser plug-in API.

This may shock you, but OS X ships with this app called Terminal. It's just like a shell on Linux. I'm guessing you haven't actually used OS X though.

I know Slashdotters have to reflexively shit on Apple, but I don't see how an OS that gives you bash, root access, and vim/emacs is "getting in your way" in terms of developing software. Every IDE that supports Linux supports OS X. You can even install BSD packages with MacPorts. What more do you want?

Then download the ads directly into /dev/null. You make it sound like a difficult problem.

This is exactly why there's no problem with Lua being 1-indexed instead of 0-indexed. It's not C, so you aren't doing pointer arithmetic on some address. If you want the first element in a table it's index is 1 and the second is 2. The first letter in a string is 1, second is 2.

If anything, other high(er) level languages being 0-indexed is the oddity. I would imagine it's to make C programmers feel comfortable.

He clearly doesn't understand dynamic languages? Have you ever used a sane one like Python?

Guess what happens when you compare different types (like a string and an integer) in Python? It's fucking false because they aren't the same! Amazing! Things that aren't even the same type aren't equal! No voodoo type-magic, no charts, just the language working like you would expect.

Hm, looks like Ruby works the same way too. Oh and Lua too! What were you saying about "not understanding dynamic languages"? Have you used anything besides PHP and Javascript?

People look at posts like yours and get it through their head that if they use Python, their website will crawl. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

If your website is anything like the majority of websites, the server-side code will spend far, far more time waiting for IO than doing any sort of processing. The language choice is almost irrelevant. It's essentially just glue to join HTTP queries and database queries.

OTOH, if you do need to do some actual processing, you might be better off just doing that in a compiled language (C, Rust, etc.) and using the web framework glue to hook it up to the web.

TL;DR: Using C++ for web server-side because "it's fast" is premature optimization. Don't prematurely optimize.

It's HDMI 1.4 (only runs at 30 fps). Pretty sure every card has that.

For desktops, sure. For laptops, which is the majority of Apple sales, your most common points of failure are the motherboard and the DC jack, so if anything the average Apple laptop will last longer because of the Magsafe port.

You must have a PPC or 32-bit Intel Mac. It sucks, but unless Intel loses their minds and goes 128-bit, I think anyone who buys their hardware now is safe. I have a MBP that's going on 5 years old and it's running Mountain Lion just fine.

The freedom to starve when you're out of a job isn't one I would defend, personally. But I'm not a libertarian.

That seems to be what's going on here, yeah. So they would be the correct party.

Wut? I ran Snow Leopard until recently and it hasn't automatically updated my computer to Mavericks. Apple doesn't force you to upgrade anything. They release new versions of APIs for new versions of the OS but that's standard practice.

I believe those are called "bonuses".

It's only a crime when sex is involved. Haven't you been paying attention to society at all?

FTFW. WinXP may not be open source but if you think the people who use it are going to give up on it you can think again.