DISQUS

All this hubbub about Python is unbelievable. Google simply used what they know, and knowing Python isn't a bad thing at all. Python is easy to learn. The language is compact and well considered, and compared to any of php, ruby or perl, it's remarkably readable. Is it always the right choice? Of course not.

As for Aaron's comment that "for the growing number of non-technical entrepreneurs, python is neither easy to use and the demonstration does not demonstrate easy to scale", I don't think Google are aiming at non-technical entrepreneurs (actually, I'd love to see a non-technical entrepreneur create an EC2 AMI.), but rather a subset of applications (and developers) that interest Google. AWS redux this ain't.

As far as I can tell, you are the first commenter to use the word "woman" in the entire thread.

Not so much in Australia. It's often a term of endearment e.g. "You stupid old cunt". That said, I wouldn't tend to use it around people I didn't know, but it gets thrown around our (very mixed) workplace quite a bit.

Really? I reckon most developers regard their business managers with utter contempt.

Perhaps closer to the bone is that developers are control oriented for the same delusional reason that lends itself to "not invented here" development: no one on the entire planet could possibly have solved this as well as I will.

Massachusetts is in the west?

No. He's a pragmatist.

IIRC Guiliani orchestrated Bloombergs membership to ensure a worthy successor.

Whoops! That will learn me not to scroll down ;) Sorry Nate!

I've never seen that formula before, but I prefer Paul Graham's take on "the equity equation": http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html