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by stephen 17y ago
Awesome that he's working on a shorter version. I poked around his site after finishing the book to suggest just such a thing. Thanks for the heads up.
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by stephen 17y ago
Good Calorie, Bad Calorie was great, except that 90% of it was a history lesson where he explains, in a very detailed manner, how other nutrition theories of the last 100+ years were wrong. Anybody know of another source that describes the
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by stephen 17y ago
I'd like a real-time-updating version of instacalc. Great tool for communicating about calculations, but it sucks having to send the URL back and forth all the time.
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by stephen 17y ago
Endowment isn't bad. But then who decides where/who the money gets paid to? Does the money go to the copyright holder (e.g. the Apache organization for anything org.apache, JBoss/Redhat for anything org.jboss) or the individual developers?
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by stephen 17y ago
Per emmett's comment, I doubt Hibernate would have become ubiquitous had it been dual-licensed GPL/commercial from day 1. There have been other commercial Java ORM/JPA/JDO/etc. implementations that were quite good (okay, not all of them, bu
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by stephen 17y ago
As a professional programmer, I'm torn between the upside of open source software (primarily that I can use it without getting budget approval and a nightmare enterprise sales cycle involved) and the downside of it making it harder for prog
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by stephen 17y ago
Cool--didn't know about it in Ocaml. Scala has it on the JVM, but I heard that under the covers it has to use reflection. Supposedly the new invokedynamic will help avoid the reflection hack (overheard from Daniel Spiewak on twitter).
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by stephen 17y ago
I'd be more interested in knowing what Google's ad server (doubleclick) knows about me.
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by stephen 17y ago
I should stop being stubborn and try this--I've been holding out that Sun would just add this to the JVM itself, but that seems fairly unlikely: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4910812 Ironically, the IBM JVM has the best support f
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by stephen 18y ago
My daughter loves it.