josefx

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by josefx 10y ago
> So were Java Applets with AWT. Users hated that, so Sun tried PLAF Uh, Java AWT was the native toolkit. Swing was the non native UI with the ugly METAL default Look and Feel. There are some nice custom Look and Feel implementations tha
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by josefx 10y ago
I never understood the need to "emulate" all of them. Linux has always been a mess of tools written against different UI styles ( GNOME, KDE, MOTIF, ... ), Microsoft also reinvents its UI with every release leading to outdated app
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by josefx 10y ago
I remember two issues with Java Applets: * Java itself was slow for a long time * The Browser would hang while loading an Applet The first is no longer an issue. They can just use a modern just in time compiler and it wont run slower than J
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by josefx 10y ago
> and go towards an intellectual discussion of a subject. The article does not mention intellectual discussion even once. What it mentions are things like trending on twitter and instant (over) reactions to any form of perceived good&#x2
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by josefx 10y ago
> -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=5 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=15 TIL. Why are those XX flags?
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by josefx 10y ago
It is not going to get you full Java 5 support either. The project was dead before the OpenJDK even existed and it never got better.
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by josefx 10y ago
Saw Hungarian notation used by two distinct developers in 2016. One of them freshly graduated and otherwise a halfway decent programmer. As far as I could tell both used it just as wrong as most developers did almost two decades ago. Bad st
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by josefx 10y ago
There is their problem, they had Al Bundy train the AI. How else do you get from shoe to whale in only three pictures, with one involving food.
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by josefx 10y ago
> 3 / 42 > Only a few scan engines detected this file as a threat. If you think it might be a false positive, find out how to contact the engine vendor on our blog. That is one hell of a "definitely". The only specific
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by josefx 10y ago
> serves malware It opens a page with an advertisement link for "Speedup My PC", not even the article claims that it serves malware, just that it "promotes" it. Going by the description of the detected malware signatu
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by josefx 10y ago
The worst case was once used to attack Java based servers, using colliding post parameters I think. Since then the Java HashMap sorts colliding entries if the entries implement Comparable.
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by josefx 10y ago
Do you mean on tax forms or the declaration that you are not a member of Scientology? Afaik you can enter whatever you want on the tax form, it is just used to collect membership fees/church tax on behalf of a church. Mostly part of an
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by josefx 10y ago
> compare (^.^) with :-) I have no mouth and I must smile
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by josefx 10y ago
> Libraries like that would probably benefit most from using a language with strict static analysis, like Rust. Wont help when developers then go out of their way to write a large amount of unsafe code. OpenSSL went out of its way to rei
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by josefx 10y ago
> If farmers can get rich growing crops, there will never be a famine. Tell that the Irish, they were exporting food while suffering from the Great Famine. The farmers and landowners had no reason to help during the famine as it was mor
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by josefx 11y ago
> Former? Well, he resigned today, but this blog seems quite old. In context he may consider the vote to keep Michael Niedermayer as team lead a farce. Several of the voters mentioned that they only voted for him to enjoy the resulting d
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by josefx 11y ago
That has nothing to do with high level, C++ for example also had no built-in guarantees for a long time. Making no promises about timing simply means that threading is either a non concept in the language (see C++ before 11) or the language