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by zmimon 17y ago
It's sad, but this isn't really an interesting argument any more these days. Even as a staunch java supporter, I wouldn't try to argue Java is in and of itself as good as C#. I'm more interested in how the 2nd generation JVM languages (
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by zmimon 17y ago
The article seems very loose with its terminology which makes it really confusing. For example: > Albert Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it can't
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by zmimon 17y ago
Yes. I would have liked to see in that 91% figure how many of those Macs ended up with Windows on them in some form. I would bet it is large if only for gaming.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Since this uses a new bytecode on the JVM I wonder how backwards compatibility is going to be handled? I hope we don't see a painful period where people stuck with old JDKs (Mac users, that means you) are going to be unable to use the newes
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by zmimon 17y ago
Anyone who uses Yahoo mail gets Yahoo news, sport, weather etc. shoved in their face every time they check their mail. From there people are linked into a network of stuff including search. And Yahoo mail by the way is massive - I can't re
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by zmimon 17y ago
So are you depressed by Facebook doing a deal with MS? MS is enormous. This deal is just collaborating on search - I don't understand why people are taking it like it's the end of Yahoo as an independent entity.
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by zmimon 17y ago
I'm tired of seeing "free" icon sites where the icons are only "free" if you do something obscene like post ads for the icon site on your page. If anyone knows of any actual free as in BSD / ASF licensed or similarly licensed icons then
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by zmimon 17y ago
If Charles really believes this then he needs to assign a bit more priority to some of bugs / feature requests that revolve around java integration. I wouldn't mind using JRuby to replace various java oriented tasks but the lack of variou
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Question is how can those particles be made in such massive amounts and at low enough price. I'm more worried about how we stop them once they are successfully programmed to self-replicate. I actually think that 'Gray Goo' is a far m
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by zmimon 17y ago
By Dvorak's logic Apple would have been crazy to ever make an iPod, let alone a phone. In fact by his logic MS might never have made Office or Windows. I agree they bungled windows for about 5-6 years but I think the one thing MS has don
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by zmimon 17y ago
How would you contrast this with OCCI? http://www.occi-wg.org/ It seems to me that a python-only library however useful it may be would be less productive than a binding to the OCCI specs.
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by zmimon 17y ago
> The right thing, if there is one, consists of a willingness to learn how stuff works even if it’s unfamiliar or seems complicated The key point is: how hard is this magic to learn, and how much is there learn? For some types of "mag
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by zmimon 17y ago
Apple is it's own worse enemy here - while there is beautiful software on the Mac and the standard is in general above what I think you find on windows, the software that Apple itself makes for windows is generally awful and this drives
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by zmimon 17y ago
I agree with you about the "not exciting" part, but I disagree about their reputation in geek circles - at least "real" geek circles and not just tech digerati that are obsessed only with what is changing and new and what drives traffic to
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by zmimon 17y ago
I'm sorry, if you released the software under a liberal open source license then you weren't "burned". I don't get what it is that makes people release software under licenses that say "do whatever you want with my code" and then suddenly
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by zmimon 17y ago
A major part of the content Zed's post is his own appraisal of himself and how wonderful he is and how he never gets any attention for what he does. When he makes it the topic himself it's a perfectly valid to discuss whether it's true or
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by zmimon 17y ago
This way of thinking about language constraints misses a key point: language constraints are not only there just to bug the programmer into behaving better. They also provide a way of reasoning about the program to a person trying to und
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by zmimon 17y ago
Bad submission title (I know it's same as the title of the page, but they're both bad). Outputting log statements is not debugging. Well, perhaps for PHP programmers it is due to the pathetic state of debuggers for PHP, but for anyone us
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by zmimon 17y ago
I know I risk getting downmodded to oblivion, but the developer tools in IE8 have actually brought me back to using IE for development some of the time. There are some specific features that are very handy - the debugger is awesome - bette
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by zmimon 17y ago
Because having to type up about 13 characters including brackets, commas etc. when you can get by with 4 chars for most needs is a pain in the ass.
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by zmimon 17y ago
> the primary engineer discovered that the isolated servers supporting the Status Site were running in the same data center as the primary App Engine serving cluster. Hilarious - they were running the status site for App Engine on the
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by zmimon 17y ago
I would have agreed with you once, but I changed my mind since Google started advertising Chrome like crazy. You can hardly use a Google service these days without having Chrome suggested to you somewhere prominently. It seems like Googl
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by zmimon 17y ago
I'm not sure about fundamentally broken, but back when I was deeply entrenched in C++ it was clear that it is diabolically hard to write C++ code that behaves correctly in the face of all the places and times exceptions may be thrown. The
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by zmimon 17y ago
Why do people always equate universal healthcare with some kind of extreme socialist conspiracy to remove healthcare from the wealthy and place it in the hands of the poor? I can't think of a single jurisdiction where universal care is prov
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by zmimon 17y ago
I think it depends a lot on context. There are some kinds of code where unit testing is just about the only way to test it at all and makes a huge amount of sense. There are other situations where unit testing verges on being a complete
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by zmimon 17y ago
Same here. As far as I can tell most of the hype about Twitter is driven by the fact that the people most in control of the popular tech media (slowly expanding to media generally) are also the ones who benefit most from Twitter's success.
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by zmimon 17y ago
I must say, my brief experience in managing a team of Indian developers had all the same sorts of issues. There were certainly bright and talented individuals, but the inability to rely on any given level of competence was maddening. I t
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by zmimon 17y ago
I liked it up until the part about cost-cutting: > Which brings me to my problem with the president’s plan: despite being an admirer, I just don’t see how the president can pull off the reform he has in mind without cost cutting. This s
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by zmimon 17y ago
You're a little harsh. It sounds like you're looking back at the old places you left from java and guest what ... they're old ... everyone left, just like you did. In the meantime though the Java language has moved on and become the JVM p
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by zmimon 17y ago
> The iPhone is sold as is, why should we expect to use it any differently? Wow. It's almost sickening to see the inversion of the principles of software freedom that Apple is able to get away with and not get criticized in the fanboi

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