ZeSmith

What's that even doing here?

For ASP.NET, indeed, WebForms can be a bit violent since it's essentially an abstraction that tries, with mixed sucess, to make you forget you're writing for the Web.

ASP.NET MVC, which came out 2 years ago, is much closer to RoR and other similar frameworks, and is a better abstraction in my opinion.

Ironically, "never or rarely" seems to be the most popular choice.

They're using their patents to crush their competitors. It's not patent trolling, it's anti-competitive behavior.

I wonder if it would be possible to claim that patents used in this way actually violate antitrust laws.

Yeah, "defender's advantage" does not apply in the wacky world of computer security.

I'm surprised that there's no large "Fork me on Github!" link at the top right corner of the screen.

Still, looks very interesting.

Still does not make it okay.

It actually makes sense for them to defend the developers: after all, would you work in an ecosystem where you can get sued at any time without being protected by said ecosystem's owner?

It's in fact entertaining enough to appeal to non-StarCraft 2 players.

Which domain? Reals? That's a lot of numbers. Infinity, in fact.

Considering how violent is the repression there, going on the streets would just make the protesters even easier targets.

Things are not looking good...

I see plenty of people who claim they write "C++" but end up writing some mutant "C with classes" C++ is not just "C with addons", it's a different language that happen to share its syntax and part of its standard library. Lumping them together leads to ugly C++ code.

The thing that strikes me the most is how the author seems to consider C and C++ to be a single language called "C/C++".

Your definition of "fun" does not match mine.

Patent trolling is a highly effective business model, but it has to make no sense in order to work.

A PR boost for them, at least. Can't tell if it would be a good thing in the end, though.

That's what you call a "meta sic".

Considering the business they're in, I'm not sure lying about that would be a good idea.

Qt has been a huge platform for some time now. It's what I call the Boost syndrome: if you want to use a small part of Qt, you have to shove your whole arm in the machine.

Reminds me of this: http://teddziuba.com/2009/09/twisted-vs-tornado-youre-both.h...

I'd say people vote more for the party's leader. But yeah, they don't care about the MP.

Lots of typos in there.

Fun thing is that "object oriented programming", in French, is "programmation orientée par objets", which is usually shortened to "POO" (pronounced Pay-Oh-Oh).