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   by va_coder 16y ago

   From this consumer's point of view he's wrong in saying everyone loses. I use Opentable a lot and I like not waiting for a table.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   "they’re not giving us any good reason to use them." I've been avoiding traffic tickets by using trapster on my iphone.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   I think reversing a linked-list using recursion is a walk in the park compared to trying to understand patent/trademark law for software.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   >"What it doesn't protect you from is trademark issues if you claim whatever thing you have is Java." There's more to it than that. If I call it Dalvik, like Google did, why would I get a lawsuit? Edit: I have to say I don't think I ev
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   and you stand there afraid, not knowing whether he is offering your project life or death
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   I'm not an apple fanboy but that's freakin cool. At work I unfortunately work with some Oracle products. No way in hell would Ellison ever call me up ;)
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   This reminds me of how Stallman's open source ideas have really shook up the software industry. I wonder what he thinks about all the recent turf battles with Java, Android, OpenOffice etc.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   I don't disagree with anything you said. I'm just saying the sky isn't falling for the average developer that is using the JVM. We'll all be using XYZ technology, which hasn't been invented yet, in 3-5 years anyway. Google is the one with
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   Yea I can guess, that Java the language sucks. I'm just saying all these articles about the death or lameness of the JVM are not covering the big picture.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    To you it is very relevant. I'm just saying let's clarify who has a dog in this fight. Believe it or not, I'm using Solr, Groovy and Clojure and in my eyes the (approved || sanctioned || blessed) JVM has never a better platform.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    "These multiple implementations of the languages are creating innovation on their respective platforms." He also criticized the JVM. "not resulting in as healthy an ecosystem" No ecosystem? Clojure, Lucene/Solr, Cassandra, Groovy, Hadoop t
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I would also add the question: If I'm running Java on the server to deliver Web services, who cares? It's still open source, I have no plans to distribute MyPersonalVM that can run Java. Google is the one that wants to keep it's advertisem
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    This actual could lead to some interesting technical solutions. There are Twitter feeds that help customers find the food trucks, but there's still room for improvement in getting that information to the right people at the right time, easi
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I agree. I also think managers with discipline and ok intelligence are better than managers that are really intelligent with little discipline. The disciplined managers focus on what needs to get done and do it. (The don't spend part of th
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I sympathize with all the great Sun engineers that got a bad deal, but didn't Sun do poorly from an investor perspective? And isn't that important? As much as I really hate Oracle (I'm a programmer and don't like their products), they do r
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Some great lessons learned.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    vapor
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I thought a while back that Google's Appengine could eventually compete with Oracle Database and Oracle Peoplesoft. As more people use Google Apps, Gmail and build custom apps on Appengine, they may start to compete with Oracle offerings.
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    Ask HN: Has anyone ever been sued for distributing Python or Ruby VM?

    8 points by va_coder 16y ago|1 comments
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Does anyone know better ways to evaluate and execute Clojure expressions in Emacs? I find key combinations like these clunky: C-x C-e C-M-x
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Why did you choose to publish your slides in PDF when PDF documents are a main tool for security attacks? Update: If PDFs are a major source of security attacks, and author cares about security, and author publishes document in PDF form, th
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    You would think the biggest, most successful data infrastructure company on the planet could figure out a way to keep warm JVM's running at a reasonable price.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    The CRM tool looks really nice.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    JVM apps on appengine start up slow. I encourage anyone looking into using a JVM app on appengine to put together a simple app, wait 10 minutes after deployment, and then hit the url and see how long it takes to load. It bothers me that pe
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    It may also be that the new Android phones kick butt. A friend of mine just got the HTC Incredible, which runs on Verizon, and it's smoking fast.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I can't navigate with arrow keys
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    checkout the clean html source code.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Your email may be less secure in the hands of a local sysadmin than with a company like Google, which has a valuable reputation to defend and sophisticated systems in place to guard your data. A legitimate reason to not use Google is their
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Really? wow
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Steve Jobs has always been great motivator; first for the engineers at Apple, and now for the Flash engineers at Adobe.