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Why should I forget VMware or any other virtualization product? They also give you 95% of native performance and a full-screen X on top of that.
With 2GB RAM becoming the norm and stand-by mode having replaced power on/off cycles, I have no issues running two systems side-by-side on my laptop at all times.
If I remember correctly, Ruby doesn't have Unicode support either. Shit, some languages don't even have built-in strings.
I am not sure what "spirit of open source", that the blog post refers to means, but what Apple did isn't looking nice from any angle.
Hold on, I thought in Delphi you still have to separate constants, typedefs, variables and code into different blocks, no?
Now they must realize how important it is to force-upgrade everybody to IE8 via Windows Update mechanism.
Pick a language that you love. That will probably happen to be something not very mainstream. All not-very-mainstream languages suffer from the lack of good, quality libraries to one degree or another.
Fix it. Since you mentioned OCaml, I assume you like it. I suggest you look at Python libraries (very mature bunch) and port something you like over to OCaml.
Permanent relief from the password hell. And it should NOT be a "keyring solution".
VA is the most promising startup of all YC companies I've heard of, if you ask me. Under-hyped and over-delivering.
National Instruments (Austin, TX) used to do that alot and it worked great. They start with some code critique and then slowly, starting with "how would you re-write this from scratch?" they get you to write some, following by popular "optimize for speed/memory" and so on.
I just recently had somewhat similar idea: to reverse tables and ask them to interview me. Not the typical "how do you like it here?" kind, but I want to ask people to ask me technical questions and see what they can come up with.