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Eclipse is painful to use, just switching to using IntelliJ Idea IDE I have felt a lot more productive. I still have to use both since my company's "official" IDE is Eclipse and if I'm working on a problem where another developer might be looking at something with me I have to use it or they'll get really uncomfortable. The auto-completion in IntelliJ and better responsiveness of the UI make it a much better expiernece IMO. I really think one of the main problems with Java IS Eclipse, if more Java dev's used a better IDE I can't help but wonder if things like this wouldn't be thought of as being as necessary
BTW: It would be awesome if someone could start a site with projects for BEGINNING Freelancers or for people with less experience than usual.

It could make sense for smaller projects and could even feature something like more experienced "buddys" who watch over the process? Just some ideas :)
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I'll give you the jab at IE6 but I take strong exception to your Active Directory comment. It is one of the cooler pieces of tech out of redmond and far and away better than the vanilla LDAP servers from Novel or just about anything else in the open source world. And don't get me started on OD in Apple Server... The multi-master replication features, plus distributed file system stuff, plus profiles, plus multisite policy deployments and on and on all made possible becuase of the core AD system. So sure, bag on IE6 but know there are people out there that can do amazing things with Microsoft software and AD is at the core of much of that.
Interesting... I wonder if the theaters bid on contracts to show the movie, where the contract includes provisions for the cut the studio gets of ticket gross.

I say this because I found, by googling, that the studios get 100% of gross sales for opening week of a big release. Then this percentage goes down over time.
> Microsoft builds stuff that's meant to last for an ungodly long time, and mostly they do it pretty decently. IE6 is still a standard because they built it to be a standard, and it has endured as a standard.

IE6 is still standard because of customer lock-in, it was so littered with quirks and outright bad ideas that it still is very hard to replace and no-one, not even microsoft, is willing to replicate its behaviours.

A prime example of why one should still hate Bill Gates.
Fair enough, s-expressions are foreign to most developers, but dynamic typing? JavaScript/ECMAScript is one of the most widely used languages in the world. Dynamic typing and even first class functions are something most developers should be very comfortable with.
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How about when Microsoft made it so Windows wouldn't run on DR-DOS?

Though it may not have made too much difference in the long run, given the need to get away from the DOS based architecture.
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Kotlin will be the successor to Java.
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Journalistic hyperbole or accurate portrayal? Although we're conditioned from an early age to believe that what is reported is gospel truth, the incentive of the author is to maximise the intrigue and incredibility of the subject.

I guess reporting on a film set full of method actors under an eccentric director wouldn't grab as many reader eyeballs.
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Steal the money - doesn't it bother anyone that if we equate earning money in business (in what ever way) with stealing, we have to equate what most of the oil companies, most of the investment banks, most of the media companies, most of pharma companies do as nothing but stealing.. The only difference is that there is no apparent 'master mind' to attack.

Is anyone naive enough to believe that if bill gates didn't end up crushing the competition as he did during Microsoft's rise, some one else would not have done so ? Sure, we may/may not have Microsoft as powerful, but there would have been some other draconian-soft to fill the void.

And though we should probably not pull Jobs in to this, if we are to imagine Jobs at the head of Microsoft when it is in a position to crush competition, I can't imagine Jobs (and many other business leaders) deciding otherwise (going by the current set of apple law suits). It's just like the lord of the rings - doesn't matter who wears the ring. The heady power of the monopoly is just like the ring (the governmental laws for fair competition should be such a way that they never form). If monopolies do form, there is no point blaming individuals for that.
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Your problem is that you think that Scala can overcome its perception problem. No, it can't. Scala is history and will never be anything. Look to Kotlin.
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The "competitive market" clause seems like a faulty assumption to me. In most areas, the number of theaters are showtimes are quite limited. And I'm not sure what sorts of entertainment are legitimate alternatives to seeing a movie on the big screen (at $12 for 2.5 hours, it's one of the cheapest forms of entertainment).
Scala had its chance, and it didn't work...no matter what Martin and his boys, and his minions want.

Kotlin will take over Java. That is fact. Mark my words on 11/05/2011.
Setting the precedent that web browsers should be free (even for commercial use)?

Adding XHR to javascript?

Making plug & play work (yes, it's a standard now)?

MS prevailed because at almost every critical junction over the last 30 years they've managed to put together the best collection of compromises that maximized utility for the average computer user.

Look at the evolution of the Macintosh throughout the 1990s and 2000s as a comparison. Through almost every iteration it has continued to try to hew to some "higher" standard than the average PC. When PCs were using IDE Macs were using SCSI. Until Macs started using IDE too. When PCs were using tcp/ip over ethernet Macs were using appletalk, until Macs started using tcp/ip too. Firewire/usb. PowerPC/x86. Etc.

There's a reason why the de facto filesystem for flash drives is FAT32 and it's not just because windows is so popular (if so it would just be ntfs), it's because it represents a well balanced compromise and is dead simple to implement.

Windows has been a fairly decent embodiment of "worse is better" for a long time.
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You misunderstand what a local syntax transformation is. A syntax transformation is just a function that takes syntax as input and returns syntax as output. The function can be arbitrarily complex, even "inferring" things from the input syntax.

The key point is whether the transform is local or global. An example of a global transform is turning a program into continuation-passing style because it must change every function definition and function call in the program.

The transforms that Xtend is doing appear to be local. Converting closures to anonymous inner classes is a local transformation. Their "type inference" isn't real whole-program type inference, it just saves keystrokes within certain expressions. The fact that they can show you the underlying Java code that each new feature turns into indicates that the transforms are local.

Also, these types of transformations really are trivial in languages with full-featured macro systems (like most LISP dialects).
Of course. Nobody wants Windows Phone 7, so Microsoft cannot exactly dictate terms of use like Apple can. The market has decided: springy lists or root.
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It is another way to segment the customers. Theaters would love to charge the total price (ticket+concession) on everyone, but not everyone is willing to pay such a high price to watch a movie, so theaters segment the customers into two piles - one willing to pay the basic price (ticket) and one willing to pay the premium price (ticket+concession).
That's true. However, they can only get away with selling it at that price because all the theater chains are in substantially the same position vis-à-vis the studios.
It might be a fad on the day of the IPO, but if you break Groupon's business model down to its essential elements, it requires a huge number of leaps of faith to rationalize its competitive advantage and revenue potential. Goldman Sachs says they predict 40% growth year over year for the next two years. That sounds extremely fishy to me, given the already-dubious value of the service, the low technical and financial barriers to entry, the lack of loyalty from merchants and consumers alike, the allegations of crooked books, the early cash out for founders and investors, etc., etc. Too rich for my blood, I guess.
I welcome Winamp on OSX , I first used Winamp in 1997-98 and it was liberating in many senses, mp3 could be ripped or downloaded and can build playlists, and later they brought plugins for visualization and DSP.

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I guess people aren't able to do enough arithmetic to figure out that the monthly bill over the lifetime of a two-year contract swamps the $200 you have to pay upfront for a far more capable device. Caveat emptor.

As an iOS dev I'm a little sad that I'm going to have to keep that low a common denominator in mind for the next few years though.
It's not free at all if you have to sign a contract. When obtaining a phone under contract I always consider the total cost of ownership (which is conveniently written into the contract where I live at least). So if you're paying $50[1] a month over 24 months then the total cost is really $1,200. Then I consider if it's really worth skimping on $300 (25% in this case) upfront then not having a better phone. Or I might compare it to the cost of buying a phone outright and how much I'm likely to spend over the next 24 months on a non-contract plan.

[1] Prices are not actual, but are close to what I recall when I last signed up on a contract.
>> Java developers are very, very comfortable with static typing and the most advanced IDEs in software development.<<

Java's IDEs just cut down the boilerplate and scutwork involved in dealing with Java. They can even make Java usable. That is, in fact, an advanced and challenging task.

I have discovered that my corner store sells a commercial IDE for Lisp that accomplishes the same thing -- eliminating all the garbage involved in Java programming. It's called a notepad and pen. Combined with a Lisp, it surpasses all the features of Eclipse that eliminate busy work, duplication, and waste.

And it executes code about as fast as a JVM straining under Eclipse, too.
Yes and no. Often (almost always?) the price per month would be $50 whether you take a free phone or use your old one. Cash grab by the networks of course, but still. The different is contract length- if you want a phone it's two years or more. But if you intend on having cell service for the next two years (and who doesn't?) it doesn't seem like such a big factor.
I'm a self taught developer as well.

I started with the front end because I had a decent design sense and attention to detail. If you can care about pixel perfection, I think it's a good route. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS aren't the most difficult technologies to start with, and you get a little more leeway to make mistakes or write sloppy code in the beginning, learning as you go.

It's a good time to be doing this. There is need for developers enough that if you can prove that you're smart, a mid-sized or smaller startup may take a risk with you.

Try putting up a personal website. Set up your own server if you can, write your own code, and get something up showing what you can do.

At this point, do whatever you can to show that you've taught yourself a decent amount. You want to prove that you can learn, not so much that you're already a pro.
Not sure what you're trying to say there. Men go to jail on all the time purely on the strength of the victim's testimony. Seems like every week I'm reading a story in the newspaper about a guy who got released from jail after being cleared by a DNA test.
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If those numbers are true, why does Apple bother making stuff? Their $80 billion in the bank should, according to your figures, make them $8 billion a quarter? Actual reported profit is $6.6 billion, so they must be losing over a billion on production and sales of stuff each quarter.
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Easy. One sees the destruction he left in his wake.
A lower cost of manufacturing for robots and repair, maybe?

But, for the record, US manufacturing output is very high, even as the number of people in the sector plummets. Robotization.
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But Bill Gates forces people to use IE6, which wastes a lot of time that equates to thousands of lives.
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Couldn't some homebrew software enable carrier unlocking?

I don't know about rooted Androids, but jailbroken iPhones can be unlocked.
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Well, whether the market competitors were innocent victims of Gates' savvy schemes or whether he was just better at executing the same tricks and basics in that business is up for debate.
For me, he's just another, rather due to his economical than technical knowledge, financially successful person in our brutally unfair world.
What he does with his money is comparatively pretty noble but on an absolute scale neither very effective nor intelligent.
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Don't brides go back for 3 more fittings after they pick the dress, including one just a few days before the wedding? I wonder how this fits in.

(Maybe a local tailor solves this problem though).
The referenced paper is way over my head, so I'll just say where I'm having difficulty and perhaps you can help me out.

Java doesn't have closures. Xtend does. Closures seem to me to satisfy the paper's definition of providing greater expressibility. Certainly, I've done a lot of C# and Java, and having closures in C# has greatly influenced how I write code.

And yet closures appear to be what you claim is a local syntax transform, and therefor can not add any expressibility to the language.

I am confused.

Update: I didnt downvote you btw.
I am one of the few people that I have run into using Unity.. I don't hate it.. its just that I haven't heard much of anything else about Unity except "god I hate Unity".
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You DID notice the "Microsoft-approved" part there, yeah? Microsoft has backed this project since day one, as I recall, going as far as sending free WP7 phones to people active in the project for them to hack away at. They have dictated the terms of use, and those terms are "unlock at will."
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"If there was a way to combine the rigors of academic courses (to improve analytic thinking/problem solving ability) with the hands-on experience of vocational learning, I would be all for that."

This is the goal of lab/recitation. Taking the basic concepts in class and applying them to something you physical build/simulate to get the 'feel' of that design. Rather than making these as 'cookbooks' they should be exercises similar the homework to have a love triangle between hands on learning, lecture, and problem sets.
Completely agree. People hate Gates and Microsoft for some really silly reasons.
Windows 95? It was a brave and revolutionary OS. Would world switch to Linux, Mac or BeOS if there was no Win95? No way it would, it would wait for Windows 4.
Internet Explorer 6? Great, great browser by the time it was released. Really, whoever calls that 'crap, uninnovative software' wasn't there in 2001.
Office? By far the best office software suite out there.
Windows XP? People use it to this day and are so happy about it they don't want to change if for newer and better systems.

Of course there were things that MS did wrong (especially on the business side of things) but the whole hatred thing is, in my opinion, more like a kind of pop-culture than something based on facts. Just look at Xbox360 - it only took to not advertise it as a Microsoft creation and kids who ridicule Windows on a day-to-day basis are now "Halo fanboys".

As for the Jobs quotes - if these were taken as some kind of a gospel or a road sign we all should hate Android by now. Actually, it amazes me that Jobs is so glorified here, while Gates always gets the flack - after all the word "hacker" suits the latter a lot more.
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Dunno the finer points of terminology, but this essentially developer-unlocks your phone, i.e. it uses the same mechanism that's used to let you sideload your own apps for testing if you're officially registered as a developer. The difference being that it's cheaper (and possibly less of a hassle to get?) and doesn't actually let you put apps on the app store. I think that's different from the iPhone jailbreaks which don't play as nicely with the security mechanisms, but again I'm not really up on the details there.