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Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS(theverge.com)
1 points by bokchoi 14y ago|0 comments
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by bokchoi 14y ago
The linked blog post from Posner is excellent: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/06/capitalismposner.h...
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Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”(gigaom.com)
601 points by bokchoi 14y ago|121 comments
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June is National Game Development Month(nagademo.com)
1 points by bokchoi 14y ago|0 comments
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by bokchoi 14y ago
They didn't step back that far. SAP just announced earlier this month they would help port OpenJDK to PowerPC: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2012-May/0026...
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by bokchoi 14y ago
I tend to agree that Java's checked exceptions are annoying (hello SQLException). However, when I used C# I was annoyed that the VS intellisense and the C# generated documentation didn't tell me what exceptions might actually be thrown! I
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by bokchoi 14y ago
This space is getting crowded. How many Dropbox clones are there now? I just saw that ownCloud released a new version recently.
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by bokchoi 14y ago
That's funny because Apple has a very pleasing OS upgrade experience. Even better, the machine upgrade experience was amazing to me when I bought a new macbook and was able to migrate installed applications and settings from the old machin
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by bokchoi 14y ago
Or JavaScript E4X
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REST: Protocols vs Styles(subbu.org)
5 points by bokchoi 14y ago|0 comments
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by bokchoi 15y ago
Oops. HNSearch didn't find that when I checked.
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by bokchoi 15y ago
Also, there is an lively discussion on lwn: http://lwn.net/Articles/489689/ I tend to agree that linux desktop needs a stable ABI that ISVs can target.
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Economist on Linux Desktop: Free is too expensive(economist.com)
34 points by bokchoi 15y ago|30 comments
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JavaScript protocol based polymorphism inspired by Clojure protocols(jeditoolkit.com)
24 points by bokchoi 15y ago|2 comments
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by bokchoi 15y ago
Sadly, since the talk was recorded in 1998 only generics have been added to Java. In addition, generics based on erasure may have been added as a wart that can't easily be removed. Happily, John Rose recently posted a proposal on how value
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John Rose: value types in the vm(blogs.oracle.com)
6 points by bokchoi 15y ago|1 comments
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by bokchoi 15y ago
I'd love to have grass in the hallways at work.
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What's New in Visual Studio 2012 Dependency Graph Features(lovettsoftware.com)
2 points by bokchoi 15y ago|0 comments
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by bokchoi 15y ago
DbVisualizer is a nice RDBMS client that is cross platform, supports many databases, graphs table relations, and comes in a free or $$ flavor: http://www.dbvis.com/
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by bokchoi 15y ago
Ignore that, I misread your comment.
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by bokchoi 15y ago
I've wondered this as well. Volta compiled MSIL to JS which made it language independent. The project seems to have stopped however.
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Java Daemonization with posix_spawn(2)(skife.org)
2 points by bokchoi 15y ago|0 comments
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Unsigned Integer Arithmetic API in JDK 8(blogs.oracle.com)
35 points by bokchoi 15y ago|9 comments
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by bokchoi 15y ago
Ugh. Here it is all on one page: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/113345-ubuntu-unity-5-0... but don't bother reading it, the article doesn't say very much.
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by bokchoi 15y ago
Not sure how that happened.
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Dion Almaer: The rise and fall of webOS is an epic tale; webOS != Web OS(almaer.com)
4 points by bokchoi 15y ago|2 comments
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by bokchoi 15y ago
One of the links from that page led me to this mini-documentary which was quite interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Nmnv0Ospg
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by bokchoi 15y ago
What will help interop between languages is something like Atilla Szegedi's MOP: http://www.wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/MOP_and_Invokedynamic It's a pretty clever usage of invokedynamic.
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by bokchoi 15y ago
GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA: http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...
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by bokchoi 15y ago
> it's mostly strange that nobody else has it It looks like it is the same as clojure's doto macro: http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/doto And it is strange more languages don't have it.

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