filomeno

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by filomeno 5y ago
Why is a local domain useful? I mean, what's wrong with your local machines having only a hostname with no domain at all?
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by filomeno 5y ago
> Sad that a generation of talented people is basically harvested by the gov for hacking and theft What's wrong with that? Would it be better if they were harvested by corporations to just make far more questionable things?
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by filomeno 6y ago
It doesn't really make a difference, does it?
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by filomeno 7y ago
You know, candidate/preview releases have been available for some time, if you can't wait to test these new features: https://jdk.java.net/14/
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by filomeno 7y ago
> The infrastructure of catalunya (high speed trains, ports, highways, etc...) have been paid by all spaniards during many, many years. Like ways, may people from all over Spain live and work in catalunya and viceversa. It's not lik
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by filomeno 7y ago
Ok. We know you know a lot about the "Castillian Spanish" language. And maybe about a ton of other things. But it seems kind of pointless, given the note was already translated by the Spanish Guardia Civil, don't you think?
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by filomeno 7y ago
I used to enjoy reading Larry McVoy's comments here, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luckydude Unfortunately, he hasn't written any comment here for more than a year.
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by filomeno 8y ago
It's the same effort it takes to run Linux in virtualization to test your software on it yet nobody does.
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by filomeno 8y ago
Well, it's not my fault that I can't use Edge on my operating system of choice. It's not "YOU don't test your work in Egde" but "YOU don't test your work in Edge but you wouldn't be able to"
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by filomeno 8y ago
Of course, they're a for profit company. And I understand they will do everything they can to undermine competition. That's why I also don't buy this "new cool Microsoft" mantra.
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by filomeno 8y ago
Why should they fork an open, actively maintained project like OpenJDK? It would only create incompatibilities between them.
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by filomeno 8y ago
Death penalty? At least that's what they call it in the USA.
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by filomeno 8y ago
Lol, I wish I could keep getting my _Oracle_ JDK updated from the package manager. Unfortunately that stopped being a thing after Java6 with some licensing changes that made it impossible for distributions to package Java (if I recall corre
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by filomeno 8y ago
Well, OpenJDK is also free in both ways, GPL licensed, so I don't think there's any difference.
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by filomeno 8y ago
But why all the effort needed when you can simply use the open-source Java version called OpenJDK? It's virtually identical to Oracle's JDK, only without commercial support, and it's licensed the same way those other alternat
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by filomeno 8y ago
I think you're out of luck. I once accidentally scratched a CD and ten years later it only got worse.
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by filomeno 8y ago
For me, it's even crazier to rely on a third party provider to be able to do my work. I wouldn't be comfortable at all knowing that my development infrastructure is beyond my control.
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by filomeno 8y ago
We all ditched the Unix model of a central server with dumb terminals around because Microsoft told us the future was everybody having a full OS in their workstation. Now they tell us the future is going back 30 years, and having all of our
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by filomeno 8y ago
Well, at least this new IE is open-source, cross-platform, and way better than that browser which reached a 90% usage peak some time ago. Joking aside, I've never really known the difference between Google Talk, Hangouts, etc, but I re
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by filomeno 8y ago
They are so different, that even thought they keep the same practices and goals from always, some people say they're a different company now!
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by filomeno 8y ago
I'm glad you have been so excited during this process, however mine dropped to zero just yesterday. Fortunately, in contrary to most markets dominated by your current owner, this is not a monopoly and we've got plenty of alternati
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by filomeno 8y ago
Well, for me this new Microsoft is even worse than Ballmer's Microsoft. Because their strategy and goals are the same, but they changed their PR to make people think otherwise.
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by filomeno 9y ago
Sure, with "better" I was talking only about the features. I still prefer the AVRs for the ease of use, but they were as easy to use as today when the price was half it is now :)
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by filomeno 9y ago
> I agree, but I would say that for personal projects, I find the difference in price quite irrelevant Yes, of course, but it just doesn't look good when the price almost doubled in twelve months, specially when you have better and
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by filomeno 9y ago
I used to do -and still do- a lot of work with AVRs for hobby projects. I find them an awesome piece of technology, allowing you to start working on something with only a breadboard and a couple of wires, in contrast with ARM based ucs wher
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by filomeno 9y ago
You can (try) to restrict your browsing to HTTPS sites only. But it's very difficult to ensure that all the communications your device is making (background services, vendor apps...) go through that channel.
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by filomeno 9y ago
Not a "language" enhancement per se, but I find Collection Factory Methods a nice improvement. https://www.sitepoint.com/ultimate-guide-to-java-9/#collecti...
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by filomeno 9y ago
Well, actually Java EE is only a "spec", with no code. There's a reference implementation, though. Sometimes this RI is popular, sometimes it isn't. Following your example: JPA (the spec) is implemented, among others, by
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by filomeno 9y ago
> Sorry for the rant, and it's off topic No, I always find it interesting to hear stories about people who worked for companies like Sun in the past. Regards
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by filomeno 9y ago
No, you're wrong. You can compare Mono to GNU Classpath (1998) and the like. But OpenJDK was backed by Sun. They started releasing the source code in 2007. So it's 10 years ago. You can read it all here: https://en.wiki

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