Possibly because C has too few features for your average programmers liking, and C++ is a nightmarish hellscape of sprawling features which you have to learn and then intentionally ignore if you want others to understand your code.

But I like Java, so feel free to ignore me.

I've written a lot of Java, so no problem there.

C is sparse. I like that. Less "clever ways to screw up that others have to debug later".

I can't disagree about C++. I only use a chunk of it myself.

1. doesn't matter. The point is the relative danger that each group poses to an individual.

Or speeding up, depending on how you look at it

$46m -> $116m (+$70m) -> $200m (+$84m)

Out of curiousity, why did it have to run in the browser?

Why not? - "we did not want to write a desktop app just for these features"

Fair enough.

I don't see JS getting those features though, especially FS/peripheral access. By completely leaving them out it makes sandboxing JS so much simpler.

I want to throw [1]Crunchbang into the mix. I use it for all my dev VMs.

[1]http://crunchbang.org/

I can't find the discussion but he answered some questions on reddit once.

He said it was reckless and wouldn't recommend it to anyone, the only reason he did it was because he was desperate.

Gen Y Hobart Australia here. I also think he mostly nailed it, but I trust Australian police officers. The few occasions I've dealt with them they've been level-headed and very friendly.

This last election has been demoralizing as fuck though. I stayed up to date on all the news and policies. I tried to talk around people I knew who were voting Liberal. I had 0 effect. Next time around I may just not bother.

And the mainstream news is a pile of shit but that's a much longer rant.

Gen Y here and yes the OP nails it, but I wonder what's left for us second and third worlders. Things are much worse here, you truly can't trust the authorities at all.

The situation is, short version, 10x worse than any point made by OP. The only exception would be the sprawl: there is some here, but not the madness I have seen over there in the USA. Still public transportation even in the best case is a complete disaster so there's that.

Owning a car is a luxury, and owning real estate basically impossible for any Y Gen without wealthy parents or some previous financial advantage. Credit is a joke and don't even dream you will be able to save enough for even a studio apartment. Square meter prices dwarf any but the highest paychecks.

>Vote! Convince others to vote. Every election is a potential revolution, which is why we have them.

How'd that work when you brought in Obama?

Until America adopts a preferential voting system it'll be stuck with a two party system, and neither party will be "revolutionary". They'll be ever-so-slightly off center in whichever direction they hope to pick up votes.

>But how many people actually take advantage of it?

Who gives a shit. The fact that the option exists means the "android locks you into google" argument is nonsense.

It means nothing of the sort. Regular consumers are absolutely locked into google by this, and as a consequence, so are developers.

The fact that a few hobbyists can back their phones does nothing to change this.

Try "Speaker for the Dead", one of the sequels. I found it much more interesting than Ender's Game.