On a similar note, Minecraft is written in...

get this

...

Java

Which seems to be the dorkiest and most uncool language on the planet if you were to ask HN.

> An attorney representing [the police] said the ruling, “will make it more difficult for the police to do their jobs.”

If your job as a cop is hindered by being videotaped while in public areas, then your job is by definition not in the public's interest, and you should not be allowed (and especially paid) to conduct it.

in response to a question about websockets and friends:

Our approach when deciding what technologies to support starts with data. There are three things we consider: What are developers actually doing on the web today? What do developers want to do in the future? <snip> We started by building a tool to look at the top 7000 sites and what web APIs they used.

Isn't this arse about? Isn't it kind of hard to use new tech if it isn't supported. I'd love to be able to use some of the new HTML5 things, but IE is holding us back

XP is a platform that doesn't allow for the performance characteristics of a modern web experience.

WTF sort of a response is that? There's some good answers in there, but this sort of spin-driven markety rhubarb works so hard to hide it. Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP.

The most refreshing part of this story is that it's not about the Apple / Google / etc App stores.

Shows that exceptional indie products can get huge traction on a traditional platform, sort of like Braid on XBOX / PC / etc.

That said, also excites me for the future when MSFT's & Apple's standard OS come with a servicable app store baked in.

Valve: "We heard you were making $350k/day, how would you like a job making $50k/year?"

It's not the language, it's what you do with it.

Everything else is just hot air.