During high school, my programming teacher only taught us C++, and she always told us that this language is the "foundation" or programming, and that if you know it, you will eventually know any other languages too. But in my opinion they're still a bit different, and also require a lot of practice.

What do you think? Which is the best programming language to learn first?

Well hello there. I'll start with the basics. My name is Alex, I live in Romania, and I love being creative and sharing my projects with people.

During college I experienced many forms of art and electronic art: from coding to hyper-realistic drawing, music, writing and much more. I only mentioned these four because they are my favorite ways of expressing my creativity.

I hope we will all get along very well in this nice community. Cheers.

I currently have my PC dual booted with Fedora, but I haven't really used Fedora all that much. The gnome 3 interface is a bit eh to me. I was looking into Xubuntu, which is a distribution of Ubuntu that uses xfce instead of their unity interface, and it looks pretty interesting.

Anyone here have any experience with xubuntu? Is it something you'd be willing to recommend?

Okay admit it... who here sits down and binges omegle for whole nights at a time.. next next next! I have met some awesome people on omegle.
And if you dont know what it is, its a random chat site where you get linked up with anyone from accross the world and you can even see them through your webcam and chat with a MIC. Its one of my favorite websites.
I mean.. Its probably better than your average night out on the town if you know how to do it right.
In order to avoid sexually explicit crazy people I set my interests to:
Philosophy, literature, chat, chatting, talk, conversation, happy, awesome

And whatever else sort of neutral / interest specific things you can come with

Burning your literature... Many many times I have spent time writing things and then burnt it, usually if I'm ashamed of it, but also because I see a kind of beauty in embracing the inevitable decomposition of everything. By doing this you are also accepting that the reason you write is purely self-indulgent.
I read a story recently about Buddhists who spend hours making murals out of sand only for the wind to eventually blow them away. Its kind of like sandcastles and ice sculptures too...
Altho, people usually have an Iphone to take a sneaky snaptshot!
Cheaters

Mine is sci fi, l used to like writing horror books but l found that a bit difficult for me and l decided to go with sci fi as l love reading those types of books and you can go in all kinds of crazy directions.

If you look at the state of the world right now and you look at who is behind it you will see men and behind those men is women doing all the menial stuff. l think that most of us women are more compassionate with the exception of a few (rice and clinton) and l truly think we would be more peaceful, some might argue that the power might drive some crazy like it does with the men but l don't think it would. A sisterhood of female leaders looking out for each other would be really cool l think, no war, no starvation and business flowing in all directions but l know that will never happen as the men would not allow it.

From as far as history goes back there has always been war and it's never been a equal fight, man has always wanted to take over the weaker man and it still goes on today. Can we be ever free from war or is this it forever? so many innocent lives get taken and suffer with the loss of homes and services and it is always seen as part and parcel. What could make all this war stop any ideas?

The only way I have of connecting my laptop to the Internet is with a broadband connection provided by a phone service, in the form of a USB stick.

The biggest benefit, apart from not needing to have a telephone landline at home, is that I can access the Internet anywhere at any time. Unlike WiFi, I do not need to search for a hotspot or register with a provider.

The second big advantage is the cost, which is very low. I pay only £10 a month ($15) for my Internet usage.

The only downside is I am restricted to how much bandwidth I can use each month. When I go over the limit I am unable to download anything or view video content for the remainder of the month.

Connectivity is usually good and I enjoy constant Internet broadband use for as long as I want every day.

What do you think about Microsoft's newest desktop operating system? It tries to blend together a mobile interface and a desktop one, and they don't seem to be working together very well. People are criticizing it because of this. I have it installed on my new PC, and although it is a bit faster than Windows 7, it crashes rather often, and it feels uncomfortable to keep switching from the tiles interface to the desktop...