Your comment is so bizarre that I almost think you must have attached it to the wrong post.

I programmed in OCaml for many years.

Yes, there is no automatic type conversion in OCaml. I certainly never said there was. Some people see this as a feature (you know exactly what you're dealing with at all times), some as an issue (you have to write tedious conversions that some languages handle for you).

Yes, there are different arithmetic operators for different numeric types. It's a little bizarre when you're used to other languages, but once you get used to it it's not an issue.

Most of my code was compiled so I didn't experience issues with compiled vs interpreted.

It certainly had a few rough edges here and there, perhaps because the community was not as large as more mainstream languages. They probably would have been ironed out if the language had really taken off.

I haven't looked at it for a while, but it's basically Microsoft's version of OCaml which is an objected oriented ML variant, (and a very slick language with a long development history).

I'm not really seeing it catch on either, but OCaml's sweet spot was writing fast code that dealt with very complex data structures. It enforced static typing, but used type inference to figure out what the types of variables were. It has powerful operators for assembling and splitting up data structures that let you write very concise code that was checked at compile time for correctness.

It is somewhat similar in flavor to Haskell (although it's probably wrong to say they're going in Haskells direction.. more that they have common ancestors).

40% of their workforce? I guess the worst part of this is that there are still ~6,750 more jobs to lose...

Did you really just say they should release a non-touchscreen version of the iPod touch?

You understand that that number is flawed, right? He only figures in the average lives of products that Google has killed. It's kind of like looking at all the people who died of heart attacks, finding out they lived to an average of 48 years old, and then telling the general population that, on average, they're going to die of a heart attack when they're 48 years old.

But please, jump on the anti-google circle jerk. It seems to be the thing to do at the moment.

Actually I don't think headers on either side get compressed.. so I'm probably totally wrong on this.

Fair enough. But then you turn on gzip compression and it drops to 1/7th of that...

If you look at what he's saying, you'll see that the javascript only gets downloaded once for all the domains. For each domain you need an html page that just has a script link to the fixed js file (that your browser already has cached). So, think maybe 100 bytes per 5-10MB.

Linking to "Canada's Best Satirical Newspaper". Really sir, an article stating "Cucumbers Cause Genital Baldness" didn't trigger your skepticism?

It's been 14 years since I did any graphics programming, and I was thinking back, "Yeah, I remember this being an issue back then."

The world is unfair in so many ways. I suppose it's not surprising that people forget that we can strive to make it better.

Honestly, I went the other way on this one.

Samsung has just had their product ruled demonstrably inferior by a court of law. Not exactly a marketing message they want celebrate.

Unless you've invented a device to transmit people's thoughts and intentions, then their words are all we have to go by.

Yeah, I'm over 40, and my father was a software guy before me (still working for Adobe).

I came here to say this. Language matters.