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by kjetil 15y ago
That's a reasonable (if knee-jerk) first reaction. But reality is a bit more complicated. log4j was the first de facto standard (excluding System.out). Making it part of the standard API would have been a no-brainer. Unfortunately, java.uti
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by kjetil 15y ago
> He's also inconsistent. He capitalizes 'I' and Emacs and Lisp (among other things). No, you're missing the point. Naggum didn't eschew all capital letters, only where they led to loss of information (ie. failure to separate common and
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by kjetil 15y ago
Spotify for the US certainly has been "in the works" for, well, forever. But coming from a would-be competitor, this piece only comes across as cranky trash-talk. Curious to see if Spotify will do as well as in Scandinavia.
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by kjetil 15y ago
That's a lot of quotes, mostly by people I've never heard of (PG, Kay, Greenspun and Yegge excepted). I'm not saying there's no truth to them, but they're mostly fluff and little content. Some notes: I don't know why PG can't, but I can cer
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by kjetil 15y ago
I recently deleted all my RSS subscriptions and went Twitter only for "feeds".
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by kjetil 15y ago
For what its worth, Tim Sweeney appears to endorse GC for game programming in his POPL talk: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277
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by kjetil 15y ago
Smalltalk is not statically typed, which I guess makes hotswapping a lot easier. It's also a miniscule part of the market.
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by kjetil 15y ago
Java finally (pun intended) gets a similar feature in Java 7 later this year: try-with-resources: http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/technotes/guides/language...
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by kjetil 15y ago
I know cross-platform solutions carry a lot of stigma, but MonoTouch is the most compelling solution I've seen to reuse code across iOS, Android and WP7.
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by kjetil 15y ago
Nice to see a company so transparent about situations which could easily have been hushed down.
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Apple signs cloud deal with Warner music(news.cnet.com)
2 points by kjetil 15y ago|0 comments
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by kjetil 15y ago
This argument doesn't make sense to me. Better wellfare lowers the risk of working at a startup, which would make more people try it. I guess work regulations and employee rights are make things harder in Europe than in the US, though. Acco
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Copy/paste, Motherfucker(copypaste-motherfucker.com)
2 points by kjetil 16y ago|2 comments
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by kjetil 16y ago
In Soviet Russia, cell phone call you!
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by kjetil 16y ago
There are plenty of "distributed hash table" solutions for Java, some are at least as old as memcached. It's true that large heaps (multiple GBs) can cause long GC pause times (which is one of the problems Azul tried to solve). This can be
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by kjetil 16y ago
A more general way to do this is with M-. (Esc-.). This fetches the last argument from the previously entered command. Very handy when you need to apply multiple commands to a file or directory. Repeat this key combo to fetch the last argu
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by kjetil 16y ago
Norwegian news site digi.no picked up this story and have a statement from Tandberg. Tandberg claims that their invention is different from what's in x264 and that they invented it before x264 the referred code. Google translated link: htt
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by kjetil 16y ago
Curious wording: "Can I sign up for the Suite if I don't already own a 37signals product? Currently the 37signals Suite is only available for people who already own Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, or Campfire accounts." If you pay to use a we
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by kjetil 16y ago
It will quite possibly be bad news for Android vendors. But by Google's own admission, Android is not Java. [Insert obligatory smiley: :-) ] Seriously, Google is one of the big backers of Java and OpenJDK. By suing Google, Oracle risk losin
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How to build: OpenJDK and Project Lambda on MacOS X 10.6(kjetilod.blogspot.com)
1 points by kjetil 16y ago|0 comments
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by kjetil 16y ago
In Norway, which has a similar arrangement, you can choose between 1) 46 weeks with 100% pay or 2) 56 weeks with 80% pay This is capped at ~ $70 K, but in practice many employers pay people on leave their normal salary (or 80% if you choose
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by kjetil 16y ago
I always add the following keybindings in System preferences: Cmd-<, Cmd->: switch windows Cmd-': zoom (the green 'maximize' button on windows) I just use Spotlight for launching (Cmd-space). Oh, and set caps lock as ctrl. MacOS sup
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by kjetil 16y ago
No, OpenJDK license is GPL + classpath exception: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception Ie. apps that only use the Java system libraries don't have to be GPL'ed, only modifications of the VM itself. Google didn't want to plac
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by kjetil 16y ago
While its's tempting to pick minor nits in this post, the only appropriate answer is this: So what? For server-side web applications, VMs (and the JVM in particular) already won. Sorry. They've made industrial strength GC, JIT and multi-thr
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The Compound Case of the Outlook Hangs (Mark Russinovich)(blogs.technet.com)
6 points by kjetil 16y ago|0 comments
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by kjetil 16y ago
Come on, have a sense of humour. What's great about JavaZone is they can actually be different from your run-of-the-mill vendor conference. Oh, and there actually are some women in there too.
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by kjetil 16y ago
Java 5? Heh. Try all the apps still on 1.3 and 1.4.
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by kjetil 16y ago
Yeah, it's the first time I've seen Charles rival Yegge's verbosiveness. Good points!
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by kjetil 16y ago
It's great to see this finally happen. Kudos to Azul! Now let's hope the OpenJDK patches will be accepted and merged back upstream.