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It's very logical. Back in the day G had very few, very bright employes. Nowadays they have a lot more people, who are, on average, less intelligent and have less will power. Which means the majority of G-ers today are incapable of innovation and letting everyone take the Fridays off is a huge waste.

Well 1st people often don't have an alternative (driver and app support of Windows, Google's search results quality).

And 2nd people do like to be screwed, if that means less effort and lower risk. The vast majority of civilizations in human history were slave based, with the majority of people being slaves.

Crazy talk.

>> Knowingly breaking the law

Yeah, mythz's crazy anti-Microsoft law ...

MS argument here is that Google is pushing for open platforms and standards when it's profitable for G and closing their own when not.

I feel sorry you lack basic understanding of linguistics. Any major programming platform today is too complex for a single individual to understand completely. One can spend his time learning several languages (and the platform they run on) or concentrate on a single language. I'd say it's obvious the second choice leads to higher productivity.

You don't see professional musicians trying to play 10 different instruments on world level. Or olympic athletes competing in 10 disciplines. Or lawyer practising 10 domains. But some programmers like to pretend they have 10 languages in their "linguistic toolbox".

It won't run satisfactory.

Reminds me of that time Sun made the Java CPU and the JavaStation. A hardware implementation of the JVM. It ran 20 times slower than the Microsoft JVM on an average Windows PC.

OK, what's your definition of consciousness?

Most animals, even single celled, need to have some way to handle the separation between "me" and "the rest of the world". I look at say my cat - it definitely has this concept somewhere in its brain circuitry. What human has is just more neurons.

No, it's not. It can be used by a single, blind person, be it a human or not.

Fully agree. Of course alcoholics are very good at coming with excuses and explanations about how it's their right to drink and the rest of society has to pay the price.

Any Racketeers over here?

Funny that all the Google product managers I know personally are ex-Microsoft guys.

That's very nice, but realistically 99.9999% of people won't put this amount of effort into their email.

Nowadays Visual Studio + ReSharper.

No, what I did was identify a pathological behavior and give my opinion that it's unnecessary!

Name calling? Mean and stupid.

How does it compare to Emacs, Idea and Eclipse?

I've been planning to learn a modern (compared to Interlisp, which I used in the 80s) Lisp for a long time. What stops me is the need to 1st learn a very complicated IDE.

I'm also having some doubts about Clojure compared to true Lisps - those store all data as lists for a very good reason - it allows fantastic code reuse.

Wow, Mr Hanselman himself.

I'm a big fan - listen to all episodes of your podcast. Just watched a few presentations from this year Build. You should really give other MS employees a course on public speaking - they are sooo slow and boring compared to you ;-)

Very interesting.

I haven't yet tried Go, but I don't see how it could match the performance of C# API with a single function. C#'s async methods offload any IO to the process IO completion port threads, thus freeing the current thread to do more work.

>> Liberalism is a suicidal ideology.

Modern technologies mean a smaller group of people can have vastly superior industry and military.

Human cloning and artificial general intelligence have the potential to far outproduce any traditional society.

>> religion is partially to blame for them being marginalized in society

Completely not true. It's the nature of work and power in human societies since the Neolithic revolution, that put man in control.

Oh, you're just a conspiracy theorist. The commies, the arabs and the jews hate us for our freedom, thank God we have heroes like Dick Cheney, George W Bush and Barack Obama to protect us.

The "new" model is just syntactic sugar over the "old" TPL, so you're wrong anyway ;-)

Have you by any chance seen the async keyword in C# 5.0? It allows one to write event-based code without callbacks obscuring the control flow. From what I've heard Python is in the process of copying this feature. Iced Coffescrip does something similar also.

Lets not talk about that. Ycombinator is about rich people funding startups. Rich people of course like the status quo. Criticizing it, won't get you funding, but a hell ban ;-)

OP name is Omar, so clearly this is a terrorist act.