tgdavies

Accel's business expertise is as important as (perhaps more important than) the money: "Accel has a long track record of helping companies break out" -- http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2010/07/atlassian_adventure....

Or will Javascript just be the machine language of the internet, with software written in more expressive languages such as Java via GWT?

But if you turned all your ArrayLists into LinkedLists, what would happen to the performance of your programs?

"the idea of quizzing candidates on whether they can diagnose and track down compiler or processor bugs is similarly useless"

Maybe Ada compilers have lots of bugs. :-)

The author claims that mining Hydrogen from the surface of the Sun would be difficult, but ignores the solution of doing the mining at night.

If your back end is Java, use GWT -- that gives you statically typed RPC calls between your client and server, which makes life easy.

One of my colleagues was recently welcomed back fromholiday with this addition to his cron file:

0,20,40 * * * * /usr/bin/killall -9 java

Or is that going too far?

Tim Pat Coogan's "Michael Collins" is good -- it's as much a condensed history of Ireland from 1916 to the mid 1920s as about Michael Collins.

You don't say what your interests are, but the googletechtalks channel on YouTube has lots of interesting stuff, not all Computer Science related.

mudnicks

What's the point of copying every article of anything which has its own RSS feed to news.yc?

Anyone who wants to see every xkcd will already have the RSS feed in their reader. Posting it here is just noise.