teacurran

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by teacurran 10y ago
I imagine a lot of the stats are based on tooling defaults. For Java we have a corporate standard to use tabs but most developers aren't even aware of their indents. Eclipse defaults to spaces so thats what ends up in a lot of code.
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by teacurran 11y ago
Kiosk licensing has always been required for shipping machines pre-installed with java. Sun required this 10+ years ago as well. I'm not a lawyer but I believe this what you can do that you can't do with windows is ship the kiosk
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by teacurran 11y ago
How is this any difference than installing Windows 10 on your Kiosk? You are paying for updates and support. You are free to use Linux and OpenJDK if you don't want to pay. Most shops I know of are using OpenJDK for all production dep
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by teacurran 11y ago
Why is there very little talk about the First Amendment in this whole discussion? They are asking to write custom software. The supreme court has ruled in separate cases that: 1. that software is speech 2. that a person (corporations are pe
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by teacurran 11y ago
I may be reading this wrong, but the only annoyance I would find with their toolchain is that it seems like their true source is the FontLab files which is not open source. The readme says that you should be able to edit the UFO files and g
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by teacurran 12y ago
So many people commenting here don't seem to have read the article. His comment is that Java can't connect to an SSL encrypted URL out of the box. He is saying that because it can't do this it can't be used for a basic
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by teacurran 14y ago
Java doesn't get a lot of press or cool points, but the enterprise world is massive and anyone in it knows there's still a lot of spending going on for java projects. It's also worth noting that several other languages on the list only run