The social dynamics of teams physically co-located can create powerful momentum. Serendipity is about 20 times harder to do over a telephone.

Your scaling AWS and you're a newb? You must be terrified!

Can you use Python for Android programming? Java is truly unbearable :(

Scripting Layer for Android supported by Google themselves ( http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting) that lets you program in Python among other scripting languages (Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell)

What does that have to do with anything? It's proprietary, and not even Linux.

Reminds me of the J programming language

Hold up, I think I just stumbled on to a fellow alum.

(Surely no other university teaches that language besides mine, right?)

Which university are you talking about?

(I'm learning J and other APL derivatives right now by myself by experimenting with the J docs and pinging the amazing people at the J software forums).

Trinity University in San Antonio. One of our profs has been working on J for decades.

You haven't, I just think that it's a wonderful language. I really wish it was Open Source...it makes me sad.

J is open source and free software as of March 2011 under GPLv3.

See you at the J software forums.

I was thinking about brainfuck.