Feeding a squirrel while wearing a tank top is a good move. Draws attention away from the fact that you're trying to draw attention to your buff physique while at the same time emphasizing your sensitive caring side. Not that there's anything wrong with showing off your buff physique. Unless you're Tim Ferris, in which case highlighting how big a poser you are is probably the last thing you need. The squirrel is genius though.
A boycott would only work if there were a concerted effort behind to spread the word as far as possible.
The recent Whole Foods boycott was a good example of how to do it - organizers used the forums section of the Whole Foods website to get the word out and Whole Foods didn't prevent it.
A couple of people changing hosts on HN is not going to amount to a hill of beans and would most likely just inconvenience those people since Godaddy is the cheapest option available (if you use their frequent coupon codes).
In some studies, self-regulation skills have been shown to predict academic achievement more reliably than I.Q. tests.
Observing an individual's ability to self-regulate works as a good predictor of character in all kinds of situations, interviews being one of the more useful applications. Although justifying your subject judgments to your colleagues could be tricky -> "He answered the concurrency questions better than average but kept slouching down into his chair - I don't think he's going to be able to meet deadlines".
Interesting psychological side effect I just noticed: I wasn't previously aware of my tendency to scan a long thread for comments that stand out because of their high comment scores but I just did it when I opened this thread and felt like I didn't have my usual bearings. In one sense it levels the playing field. In another sense, though, it removes some key information that helps us to prioritize where we direct our attention.
Is it in fact the longest post you've ever written or just similar to the longest post you've ever written which also happens to be on this same topic?
I haven't even learned one tenth of the features in CS3 yet. And yet, surprise, surprise, I seem to do just fine. More feature bloat as far as I'm concerned.
So I take it you don't believe any of these languages are going to achieve much traction in the business world. That's generally my take too. But there's still a lingering doubt: what if one of these is the "next big thing"? Just like you would have kicked yourself if you had had the opportunity to buy Google shares when they had not yet passed $10.