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Go seems like another attempt â" undertaken every few years by a fresh crop of bright-but-not-wise kids â" to start a new programming language.

Rob Pike, one of Go's designers, turned me off from the language a few years ago when he posted with incredulity positing why most C++ developers weren't moving over to Go. He ends his post concluding that displays a remarkable attitude of "I'm right because everyone who disagrees with me is wrong", deciding that C++ users just don't know what's good for them.

What he doesn't understand is... the existing languages work. And they work pretty well, despite what the rabid fans of the new hot languages will tell you. Their language might do some specific thing better, but it's really only a little bit better, certainly not enough to switch to it. Most coders have at least a few different go-to languages to cover a wide breadth of problems, and adding an extra language just doesn't add any value.

"My favorite programming language is solder".
A propane torch is not the best tool to hack a PC board, anyhow.

Ugo Bardi at his Resource Crisis blog has a commentary on peak oil and the exploitation of unconventional sources. Bardi has done a number of posts lately on what he calls the Seneca Cliff. The name comes from a quote from the Roman Seneca:

"It would be some consolation for the feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid." Lucius Anneaus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, n. 91

It's all pretty interesting and indicates our civilization is in for a hard fall in the not too distant future. It makes me glad I'm over 60 years old and probably won't have to face the worst of it.

I do not see how this was anti-semetic in any way. The IOC did not endorse the terrorist attack. In all reports I found online, it seems they tried to remain as neutral as possible, treating the games as 'neutral territory'.

The terrorists sure didn't treat the games as neutral territory. The IOC is so neutral that they are now allowing the terrorist organization that conducted the attack to participate as a country. You don't see how this can upset the victims?

If you need a clue, the flag of Palestine looks like this.

Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?

I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...

Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that" :P

Yup. This is correct. The stats are by page views.
Google fetches everything under the sun when you start typing, and only shows it to you when you actually want it. It's a terribly wasteful practice when you're just thinking of the increased burden on ISPs and servers, but it's even more absurd when you consider the bandwidth caps most people live under.

All of the web traffic monitoring sites only monitor a the top X most popular sites that have analytics or some other shit tracking engine layered on top.

Chrome users, who are tracked out the ass and who prefetch the entire internet, will be over represented.
Firefox users who install things to actively block tracking and ads and mountains of content they don't want will be under represented.

Then you have to consider that most web traffic is generated by a small percent of the population. Grandma on IE9 isn't going to register on these reports, but every insufferable blogger will.

Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?

Even if the page is being prerendered, it still means Chrome is being used.

Not much of a web guy huh? Not much of a statistician either eh?

Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?

I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...

Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that" :P

Even if the page is being prerendered, it still means Chrome is being used.

Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?

I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...

Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that" :P