Also, the distinction between the language and the JVM is irrelevant here. Behind both lurks an army of Oracle lawyers waiting to pounce.

A lot of very large users of Java are unhappy with it, not necessarily for technical reasons, but for legal reasons since Oracle set such a negative tone in court.

The only reason Java isn't dead yet is that it would be expensive to abandon existing infrastructure so abruptly. It will be a around for quite a while still, but it won't be too long before it's relegated to the decaying margins of the software industry.

The question posed captures an oversimplification of reality. I would be considered a "rock star" by the CEO whose company I effectively destroyed by leaving. I left because there were no interesting challenges and much bigger players were offering much more money and much greater benefits. I'm dynamite at math, CS, and coding, and I'm only about 50% socially inept. ROCK STAR.

You may not need a "rock star" in most situations, but they can often be found doing the work of N > 3 people of average technical competence in companies operating on a tight budget.

Hear hear! Blackthorne was when I fell in love with Blizzard. That and Rock n Roll Racing on the SNES.

Also, Schmidt is not a visionary.

He's wrong. The technocratic imperialism part is accurate, in a sense.

The notion that it is centered around a specific culture confined to a specific nation-state is not. He seems to be blinded by his disdain for America, when in fact his alleged adversaries are politically ambivalent outside of their concern for policy that impacts their own state-independent agenda.

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It would be interesting to see the results of an experiment which brings the same subjects back in 5 or 10 years and asks them to think the same passthoughts. I highly doubt as much accuracy would be observed.

This is however an easy problem to solve: just change your passthought every few months.

While not uncommon, I will contest that it is in fact both strange and ridiculous.

Did it look like this? ---

Here's what I imagine happens.

1. Look at $date.
2. Anything noteworthy happen? If no, skip to #5.
3. Do we think it's interesting? If no, skip to #5.
4. Make Google Doodle of it. Yay, interesting knowledge for people to stumble upon.
5. Increment $date by 1 day and go back to #1.

There's nothing special about multiples of 10. In fact, prime numbers are certainly much more special by many standards. 61 is a prime number.

If Google hired so many pedants they would probably have never gotten off the ground. They'd still be arguing over the fact that "luck" doesn't really have anything to do with the operation of the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

I do suppose his estimate of 10% share could be attainable: Surely more than 10% of all web developers are incompetent.

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Another fine Anonymous Coward completely misses the point and leaps at the opportunity to spout vitriol. IMBNH.

As far as I can tell, you completely missed my point. I understand precisely what Computer Science is and I understand precisely what programming is. You may have self-esteem issues.

My shit's pretty straight.