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And be replaced by who?

Where is the value in Apple? Its ability to trick Americans into buying very expensive, yet very restrictive, products that most of the time they really don't need? That's actually a very harmful thing, from an economic perspective.

Are you sure about that? I've seen co-workers suggest the use of Coq, only to see a room full of managers and peers burst out in laughter. Coq won't catch on in many places where it'd be very useful solely because of its name.

It makes sense why he's saying that. The people responsible for large, important data sets usually have lots of money to spend storing that data. Since they care about their data, they know better than to get involved with NoSQL databases, and actively shun anything that claims to be a NoSQL database. The real money will flow towards those providing real databases.

"Durability" in that sense has nothing to do with how the data is stored, or how long it's available for.

It simply means that after a transaction has been reported as having been committed successfully, it won't ever be rolled back.

The huge rise in Objective-C's popularity isn't natural; it's only a result of Apple basically forcing all software targeting its popular mobile platforms to be written in Objective-C.

Maybe the Perl community just needs to trick Apple into making Perl the default language for iPhone and iPad development. It's marketshare will shoot through the roof overnight.

It can, sometimes and with great skill, be used to write understandable code.

Don't confuse "development" with "maintenance". They are very different things. We see most of those projects merely being maintained, not radically improved.

True development is happening within the Haskell community, for instance, where they're taking concepts from various fields of mathematics and applying them to software development in ways that haven't really been done before.

Most Java-based projects are merely reimplementing something that somebody else has already done, or they're making minor, incremental improvements to a well-aged piece of software.

Most of the projects you just listed are several years old, and some go back more than five years. That's not exactly "new" when it comes to computing.

The best Flash-blocking extension is to just not bother installing Flash in the first place.

Browsers should just display content. Filtering proxies should filter out ads and other unwanted content before it ever gets to the browser.

Please take your anti-Reddit vitriol elsewhere.

His daemon solution actually sounds simpler, and much cheaper...

Don't use shortened URLs here, please. This isn't twitter; post the full URL.

Mainly by Haskell, Clojure and Erlang.

That sounds a lot like the Angelfire site builder that some people used to create sites way back in 1994.

Well, "Cloud Computing" became pretty widely know. After some people tried to actually use it seriously, they found out that it's actually quite shitty, and nothing but marketing blabber. This forced the marketing and hype folks to find something new to drivel on about. Behold, NoSQL.

No thanks, Zed. I'll just continue to use PostgreSQL. It'll scale better, it'll be more reliable, it's a real database, and it's released under a truly free licence. Take this NoSQL crap back to Rubyland.

It's too bad you're using a .ly domain. The mere association with Libya, and the fact that you're dealing with invoicing, makes me very uncomfortable.

It's okay that you're not using OpenID. It's a pain in the ass to use. It's one of the reasons I don't like using StackOverflow, for instance.

That was a terrible article. It was all over the place, spewing nonsense in all directions.