It feels like the author just hijacked the topic to rant about Objective-C. No big insights into why web apps are slow other than: javascript is not the bottleneck, rendering the dom (which is a complicated process) is.
the ATI card wasn't up to me and it is really the proxy support that is the most disappointing. There are bug reports dating several years back that still haven't been addressed
As much as Ubuntu has matured over the years, I am pretty disappointed how many things are broken out of the box still. Being behind a proxy is a major pain as ever, as well as getting ATI graphics drivers to work properly.
How is Latin the 'source code' of English? Sure, a large number of Latin derived words made it into English (mostly via Norman French), but that's only half the picture