jacques_chirac

>People answering questions does not imply that their favorite thing to talk about is themselves.

Nor does what I said imply your assertion.

I have a hard time agreeing with this. In my experience people's single most interesting thing to talk about is themselves. Once you notice that, you see it everywhere. It's such a lure, it's almost irresistible. I've made it a habit to ask them a couple of open questions and then just let them have at it. In a few situations folks lost business with me simply because they were too preoccupied with talking about themselves to simply ask "so... how about you? what do you do?"

It follows that whenever someone has an obsession, it comes up naturally while they talk about themselves.

With no evidence.

"...if your reading this than..." ouch

Most high-performance shops (Google, FB, Netflix, Amazon, ...) tweak their OS, compiler, etc.

Favorably. Pick D.

There's plenty you can do with D but not C++, see regex, bitfields, swap member-by-member with checks for mutual pointers, the pegged library for grammars, etc etc.

It is the least encumbering, very permissive and very well regarded in both oss and corporate circles. Really a good choice to stick with it.