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There's no big mystery. I was there and saw it all happen. Java, the language, hadn't made any progress for several years. Programmers like me would complain at Java user group meetings here in Silicon Valley that we wanted certain features in Java (enums, lightweight structs, etc.) and the Java guys from Sun would always do an Apple on us: you don't know what you want. You're not experts; we are. We know what you really need better than you do, because we're smarter than you and have better taste, so trust us, you don't really need <whatever features we were asking for>.

There was always a Microsoft rep at those Java user group meetings. After the meeting, he would come up to us and ask us again what we wanted and why. Unlike anyone from
Sun, he'd ask good questions, listen carefully, and take notes.

Microsoft genuinely liked the language as a much-better C++, but wanted it to have native extensions on Windows for two reasons: 1) it would encourage the writing of code that would be less portable, thereby reducing the threat to MS's advantage of being the platform with the most apps, and 2) apps written in "pure" Java just weren't as good as native apps, and for Java to become the "better C++" that many programmers inside MS were hoping for (for their own use), it was becoming clear they would need native extensions.

MS tried to produce a Java with native extensions: Visual J++. Sun filed suit, claiming that MS was in violation of contract. I don't recall the outcome of the suit, because MS decided that Java's slowing acceptance as a general-purpose language for client-side apps (and part of that slowness was CAUSED by MS) meant that there was less need to claim support for Java. It wasn't going to take over the world after all. (Steve Jobs later made the same decision). Not supporting it wouldn't mean you would be left behind. They abandoned Visual J++.

Instead, MS wanted their own Java-like language with no strings attached. Java was a trademarked name, so they created a language with a different name but all the Java features (LANGUAGE features) that programmers liked so much, plus most of the features that Java programmers were begging for that Sun was sniffing at, plus the native extensions needed to write Windows apps that would only run on Windows AND would run so well they would, in general, be indistinguishable from native apps written in Visual C(++), and they built a great app builder (VC#) to go with it.

They did a beautiful job with Visual C# and rattled Sun so much that suddenly a lot of those "impossible" features we "didn't need anyway" became available in Java, but C# has always maintained a healthy lead over Java in nice features for client-side programming, IMO.

(And Java has maintained a superior overall adoption rate, especially on servers.)
I think irregardless of the country of origin for the company making the complaint it should be held within the actual country the person resides in and has supposedly committed a crime, otherwise it ruins the system.
Winamp was great back in the day, suffered with iTunes for a while and now have deleted all my mp3s and living solely with a Spotify premium account. But I loved those skins on winamp!
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I'm still using winamp - love it's easily searchable music library and android integration!
Decent 7" tablets based on the Allwinner A10 arm cpu can easily be found around 100/150€. http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/cortex-a8-allwinner-a10/

The performance is not at Tegra3 level, but they provide smooth scrolling and browsing. A cheap google tablet in this segment is a very tempting buy.
Google was a cheap shot, but to be honest, fair use is always debatable. I was more interested in the concept of secondary/proxy linking. What if the accused had linked via a bit.ly proxy for example? What if a search engine links to a bittorrent site, that then in turn linked to copyrighted content? E.g.

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fthepirateba...

Just to play devil's advocate here (and out of general interest), but why should he follow DMCA? Isn't that a United States copyright law? Where's the jurisdiction here?
Weirdly, I used Winamp from '97 all the way through 2008. I don't remember whether it was v2 or v3 but I was happy with it and never tried anything else. I used VLC only for videos, and switched to MPC(-HomeCinema) later. I heard inklings about the iTunes revolution in the US but I had no iPod nor any need to use iTunes. It was only when I switched to a new desktop PC that I decided to try another music player for fun, which was foobar2000. I like fb2k, but still don't find it as subjectively nice as Winamp was - perhaps because of the default look. (I only use fb2k now, though.)

"The llama's ass" will always remain with me, as a vivid and irreverent memento of the first surging waves of the mass Internet crashing upon the shore of my community. Downloading and swapping MP3s in the early days, from websites and via IRC, before AudioGalaxy and Napster...those were exciting times. Thank you for the memories, Winamp.
I think Esperanto is a pretty good candidate for the language of science. As an attempt to not show linguistic or cultural bias, the International Academy of Sciences San Marino already uses it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademio_Internacia_de_la_Scie...
Students write their thesis in both Esperanto and another language of their choice.

More interesting reading:

http://www.uea.org/dokumentoj/IKU/en/science.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Science
If this tablet is a commercial failure with such great specs at such a reasonable price, this does not bode well for Android as a Tablet OS.

I have been developing for Android full time 2 years. I am waiting for some indication that Android is doing well on tablets and there is a return on investment (ROI) optimizing for this platform / form factor combination. So far that ROI has not been there for me.
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Well there you. I was trying ti be as inconspicuous as possible, personally, I find typing on a table with the iPad smart cover, much easier than typing on a phone. Knowing the people who were there, I doubt it was conspicuous consumption.

I'll look into Workflowy, however.
> I realized that it wasn't actually making me more productive in the kind of code I actually write from day-to-day

I've got a quip for that in my quotefile:

> "Haskell mainly helps with my C++ template coding when I'm doing money oriented programming" -- fnord123
Sure, but a Tegra 3 tablet in that range is surely news, no?
Brilliant stuff!

You mention not making a Mac version - perfectly understandable - but will it be usable on Mac in any way? Would be nice to sync files across computers!
The edited title gets it wrong (when the original was correct).

last of a particular sub-species dies - there are still lots of others.
That is when you are questioned, not when you are arrested. You can keep quiet as long as you want. Technically the simpler your questioning and therefore statement is, the more ambiguity is available in court which goes in your favor whether guilty or innocent. During cross examination, any error you make ruins your credibility. No information = less errors. Choosing not to answer a question does not imply guilt - it's in the CPS prosecution guidelines.

With respect to solicitors, get a private one as well (preferably one who knowingly hates the police) rather than a duty solicitor as they are in the pockets of the police in the UK. They are one and the same - they eat, drink, socialise and funny handshake in the same locations.
As you said that you are targeting enterprise users, I would suggest to negotiate with the owner of .com domain. Have you contacted them?
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"iTunes has far too much bloat" - this is exactly why I stil have WinAmp installed. I use iTunes for organizing my music, downloading podcasts, syncing with my iPod, etc. But I also record my own MP3s - songs, voice memos, etc - and opening them in iTunes is annoying. It's slow, and it immediately adds them to my library, which I don't want.

If I double-click an MP3, it opens immediately in WinAmp. For most anything else, I use iTunes.
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Oh, didn't notice that. The specification actually does not explicitly prohibit pseudo content on replaced elements.

This specification does not fully define the interaction of :before and :after with replaced elements (such as IMG in HTML). This will be defined in more detail in a future specification.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-CSS2-20110607/generate.html#be...

In my opinion it would be cool if all browsers supported it.
100M ethernet is about as fast as disks were over 12 years ago. Currently slowest mechanical laptop drives do about 500-600 Mbps, fastest SSDs about 5 Gbps.

802.11g is about 24 Mbps half-duplex in ideal conditions, so for example if you're sending 12 Mbps, you can receive at most 12 Mbps. 802.11n ups this to 30-100 Mbps range half-duplex, in rare cases a bit more.

100M ethernet is generally full-duplex, so you can send and receive very near to 100 Mbps speeds. And so is 1000M ethernet. And unlike wireless, they actually operate very close to rated speeds.

I'd say 802.11n can replace 100M ethernet in some use cases, like casual internet usage. Wifi has still a long way to go before it can truly replace cables.
Did generics break working code?

I didn't think that was possible.
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I think a flat-as-possible structure is a good plan, but no boss doesn't exist. There is always a bunch of bosses. Guided by ego or investments.
the benchmark is pretty much irrelevant, because if it was we would all be coding in C or Fortran, or why not machine code or assembly ?
On the other hand I find that the mono project (young, open source implementation ), is doing quite great against java 7 (commercial implementation, unless I misread). It would be interesting to see how the openJDK is performing ? (the real question would be : is openJDK crippled compared to the Oracle - JDK ?)
Yes it is.

The only Tegra 3 phone around atm is the HTC One X[1]. That seems to go for around $600 outright here in Australia. Even if this tablet is WiFi only it's a pretty amazing price point for an unsubsidized device.

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superphones.html
I still use Winamp 2.97. Anything beyond that I wouldn't really classify as good software. I think Justin Frankel was learning C++ at the time and tried to bite off a bit more than he could chew. This was just what I read off their own tech forums and in IRC.
And all that is (or should be) completely irrelevant since we are talking about a British guy hosting a website that not primarily targeted US audience.

I am not a lawyer but I am fairly sure O'Dwyer does not have to abide the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Google, as an American Website, however has to.
> as history likes to remind us, the only way to resolve these issues is legitimate bloody and violent rebellion.

I don't like this statement. It removes the thinking behind what a better, non-bloody, non-violent alternative could be.
A very good news indeed. I was already waiting for the release of the original MEMO 370T!
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Am very happy with my VPS from prgmr.com which I've had for just over a year now.

I also have VPSs with Linode, Slicehost and Amazon ... but honestly prgmr is just excellent value.
Would be useful to have control over output encoding (ie. generate an octet stream output in UTF8, UTF16BE/LE). Generation of surrogate pairs would also be needed for encodings that support them, since many applications get this wrong (even in Java, the number of java.lang.Characters in a java.lang.String is not necessarily the same as the length of the String...)

You could even add options for "badly behaved" UTF8 (eg. overlong encodings, deliberate sync errors etc.) to stress test the other end.
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That's a terrible article. It wasn't a law they passed it was written into a proposal for a directive. It may be law in a couple of years. Even then HN is a US based operation and not obliged to comply with the "right to be forgotten" even if it does pass.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16722229
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The Bible makes sense if Jesus made the blind see and deaf hear. Falic symbols are one thing you learn to see. The other is seeing faces ... in people, animals... like they had done a photoshop morph.

Hearing?

"Born again" reminds me of my birds and how they view reality. Stop for a moment and imagine what my birds think of my computer screen. That's how reality is for me with angels, CIA, FBI, psychiatric nurse actors, psy-op torturers, aliens, Jews, secret service, Brits, Catholics... I'm hopelessly confused.

God says...

3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make
peace.

4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 4:2 Ye lust, and
have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and
war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume
it upon your lusts.

4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.

4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 4:6 But he giveth more grace.
Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble.
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This is particularly stupid because apparently the site only had links to copyright infringement.

This is just hollywood abusing their position to fight the advancement of tech and society simply because it disagrees with their business.

I do not believe there is anything inherently unethical about copyright infringement in pirating movies or tv shows. It's only technically illegal (and unethical in the sense that it's against the law) because copyright protections were put in artificially as a regulation to control for a certain outcome, like tariffs, taxes, or a dam. Hollywood simply won't admit the dam isn't working and trying to antagonize and criminalize those who go against the flow directed by regulation.

Calling pirating movies or tv shows unethical is only justifiable if pirating is akin to stealing in the physical sense, but it's not, and so it's not unethical. If someone were to project a copyrighted movie on to a giant wall, it's like saying all unauthorized onlookers are doing something unethical, when really it doesn't matter how many illegal onlookers there are as it won't affect the creator. If the content creator can't feed himself because everyone is "stealing" his work then he should a) find a new line of work or b) find a way to properly monetize it. Anything of value can be converted to money.

That being said I do think the content creators provide something valuable, and this should be protected. The issue here is that it's only going to get more expensive to enforce the current business models of content creators. The expense not only comes in the form of cost to gov't and the businesses themselves, but also in the form of DRM and other side effects of enforcement that really degrades the whole product chain. In the worst case scenario we never find a way to adequately support a film and tv industry. It's cultural benefits will be missed but we'll just shift our attention to something else. Life goes on. It's existence was probably arbitrary in the first place. Copyright laws didn't enable the TV & film industry. Enforceability of those laws did that, and the enforceability is eroding way whether they like it or not.

Summary: It's unethical to break the law (assuming the law was instated ethically), which, in theory, is a set of rules everyone agrees to play by. However pirating movies and tv shows is not inherently unethical as it is just an arbitrary law we put in place to control for an outcome. Linking to copyright infringement should be neither of these.
HTTPS claims to secure the connection, so it is necessary to make clear when these claims aren't justified.

HTTP makes no security claims, no there's no "unexpected lack of security" to disclose.
Sorry but you are too much of an idealist and nowhere near a realist.

a) You have to work with the rest of society which doesn't have the same moral standard as you (or me). Consider the London riots.

b) You would be killed without them so much as blinking. Consider Afghanistan civilian drone attacks and the lack of accountability around it and the rapier missiles sitting on top of council blocks just for the olympics and 10k troops stationed at Grenwich barracks.

I'd like it to be that way but it's just not realistic.

Hmm...
Google also hosts the actual content. This guy didn't.
Whatever you choose, aim to get the twitter account too.
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So the way to look more sexy was to start looking weird? That sounds rather arbitrary to me. Why not grow three boobs or develop wings or whatever? Anything can be explained like that.
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> This is something I have a hard time understanding. Why do companies always seem to insist that everything in their operations is within their full framework?

There might be actual reasons of efficiency and using synergies and if you ever have to comply with regulations, you have one central unit to work on. But I think usually these decisions stem from either a positive will of organizing - because if you have two billing units or systems, things might get out of hand or control and having one just seems more neat and organized and people fear that chaos. Or they stem from nothing but cold, cut-neck, selfish political reasons. Evil-business-guy doesn't want another fish handling money in his pond because just imagine if that little fish turns out to be bigger than evil-business-guy's own billing system? On top of that, even smart-business-guy VERY likely gets a bonus on how much his billing system billed and how well it performed... you think he will let that bonus slip just because it MIGHT be the right thing for winamp? And as a unit helping to bring in the cash, billing typically has a lot of natural influence.

And of course we have a lot of 20/20 hindsight in this case.

This is a typical example of how difficult it can be to set really good, beneficial goals in an organization and how many natural conflicting interests there can be - and all that in a humongous giant like aol on top of that.
Google could be subsidizing the device in exchange for Play Store revenue, since Google gets 30% cut from app sales.
Am on Dvorak and the hjkl doesn't make any sense at all to the dvorak layout. So i have remapped them to snhd instead, but still i end up moving my hand to the arrow keys. But i now think i should try the up down left right layout. i.e Use c instead of 't' that would help eliminate the flow breaker of moving my hand to arrow keys.
"Formidable" is entirely in the eyes of the beholder. This means what's formidable to one investor is not to another, for a wide range of reasons - market focus, experience with investments in the area of the venture's focus, and the intelligence and savvy of investors. In other words, it is entirely subjective and not particularly meaningful.

In a prior post on a related subject, I related that most VCs dramatically underperform the market and are not worth the investment [1]. This would imply that most VCs are not particularly good at determining the quality of their investments. I would argue that "formidable" is meaningless in this context when most VCs do such a poor job of distinguishing "winners" from "losers".

[1] http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/institutional-limited-partn...
It seems to me that the people behind this extradition attempt see that the value is not in the actual punishment for this unfortunate guy. It's in the publicity it gets and the ability to change people's actions worldwide in terms of piracy. Either way, its ethically wrong and deserves to fail. I have signed the petition.
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> Firstly, building a website like this in the current legal climate is basically asking for trouble.

His website has been in existence since 2007.
You really should put this in a blog post.
"The Web is dead. Long live the Web."

I may be wrong but it looks like Google's fear of the mobile ecosystem - that apps cannot be crawled, indexed and searched for may be an overreaction. It is precisely because apps cannot be crawled, indexed and searched for, the mobile application ecosystem's expansion will be limited - mobile app discovery will continue to rely on the web. Apps are isolated and cannot link to a particular state of another app. No links, no network effects. The expansion of the app ecosystem is currently limited by the number of apps in the market; With each new app in the market users will require more time to search for a suitable app. More websites, however, actually encourages even more websites, due to linking and references between all the websites; More websites enable users to discover faster the website they derive the most value out of (due to linking). More mobile applications, on the other hand, do not. It's almost like binary tree search O(log(n)) vs iterative search O(n).

These are just my opinions, however, so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm not so sure about lambdas in v1. I remember v2 added anonymous functions ( ex " delegate(int x){...}" ), and real lambdas not coming until v3.
He's talking about the pure view camera. The N8 has an exceptionally good camera for a phone.
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> Nobody in their right mind would trust something as symbolic as art.

So your conjecture is that the author is insane?