Making software accessible often has beneficial side-effects, like being more usable on crappy displays or bright lighting conditions.
I'm going to guess because they are expensive. Do Apple to on-site support like Dell, HP, et cetera?
I don't think modern Java is a 'move fast ~and break things~' environment. It's a comparatively stable platform with an enviable focus on backwards compatibility. The maintainers have talked about "last mover's…
Sametime had to work in Java Applets so portability was key. IIRC our biggest customer was the Australian navy. I was briefly what is now called a developer-in-test on Sametime after Lotus Development bought them. I was…
I worked in a group that reverse engineered the Lotus Notes database format. We worked at Lotus Development, but we weren't from Iris or even in the USA. Notes was the golden goose & the risks from leaks were judged too…
I recall a team working on machine translation starting by translating English into a simpler form before translating that into the target languages. This was a couple of decades ago. Perhaps not a new idea even then.
I have unknowingly bought commercial desktop software that turned out to be Java + SQLite under the hood. Don't know what they were using for UI.
> Sadly Java did not take Smalltalk's FP inspiration (I guess they were strayed by C++'s lead in that regard) You guess correctly. Java was easy for C++ developers to learn which was beneficial for adoption at the time.
I don't really disagree. The software was released on 7 platforms, not counting multiple Windows versions. I don't know the risks or what platforms changes impact today or the test effort involved. I expect "it's still…
I may be misremembering a drunken conversation with a developer but IIRC the root cause was choice of cross-platform APIs available in early 2010s & the JSON file was tiny when introduced.
If GTA6 leaks they will not release this year & layoffs will follow. Different era, but shades of the Half Life 2 leak.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> This brings back some (unpleasant) memories. But otherwise I admire the minimalism.
Anything relying on beans for (de)serialization via reflection (XML; JSON) were the big incentive in the J2EE space if I recall correctly.
Records [0] are a modern form of data transfer object. They are immutable though. [0] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/language/records.h...
England & Wales only. The website is a response to new business rates (taxes) arriving this year. Scotland, Northern Ireland & the rest of the world play by different rules.
A tax based on property value. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjwgzwe2eyo
If I recall correctly Microsoft have always used Notepad as a test bed for new Windows APIs.
I understand your pessimism but believe IPv6 is coming. I worked on network management software, the kind of software that runs on out of band networks that are unlikely to ever need IPv6. In the beginning IPv6 was a…
I think it is fair to say that the USA rediscovered war fever after the attacks on home soil. It resulted in the land invasion of two countries. > There's a phrase people sometimes use about a nation's collective…
Matt Stoller claims that the USA's problems with egg prices are a result of a European duopoly on hen breeding and USA cartels leveraging exclusivity agreements. I have no way of knowing if that is true or not.
If the data centre is coastal then desalination might be an extra step. A salt water heat exchanger might do the job.
> Want a fridge? Good luck in market research. If paralysed by consumer choice I would lean on Which?[0] magazine which is run by the Consumers' Association charity. Perhaps there is something similar in your geography.…
They're using it internally. It's probably for the best that the last place they test it on is their customers.
Change at tier one telecoms providers tends to be glacial. It follows hardware upgrade cycles that take ages to plan and implement. I spent a decade writing element management systems. An element is a network device -…
I witnessed some of those bunkers on a day trip to [0]Butrint. The tour guide told us they were constantly being told the country was on the cusp of foreign invasion during the dictatorship. The locals had painted the…
Making software accessible often has beneficial side-effects, like being more usable on crappy displays or bright lighting conditions.
I'm going to guess because they are expensive. Do Apple to on-site support like Dell, HP, et cetera?
I don't think modern Java is a 'move fast ~and break things~' environment. It's a comparatively stable platform with an enviable focus on backwards compatibility. The maintainers have talked about "last mover's…
Sametime had to work in Java Applets so portability was key. IIRC our biggest customer was the Australian navy. I was briefly what is now called a developer-in-test on Sametime after Lotus Development bought them. I was…
I worked in a group that reverse engineered the Lotus Notes database format. We worked at Lotus Development, but we weren't from Iris or even in the USA. Notes was the golden goose & the risks from leaks were judged too…
I recall a team working on machine translation starting by translating English into a simpler form before translating that into the target languages. This was a couple of decades ago. Perhaps not a new idea even then.
I have unknowingly bought commercial desktop software that turned out to be Java + SQLite under the hood. Don't know what they were using for UI.
> Sadly Java did not take Smalltalk's FP inspiration (I guess they were strayed by C++'s lead in that regard) You guess correctly. Java was easy for C++ developers to learn which was beneficial for adoption at the time.
I don't really disagree. The software was released on 7 platforms, not counting multiple Windows versions. I don't know the risks or what platforms changes impact today or the test effort involved. I expect "it's still…
I may be misremembering a drunken conversation with a developer but IIRC the root cause was choice of cross-platform APIs available in early 2010s & the JSON file was tiny when introduced.
If GTA6 leaks they will not release this year & layoffs will follow. Different era, but shades of the Half Life 2 leak.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> This brings back some (unpleasant) memories. But otherwise I admire the minimalism.
Anything relying on beans for (de)serialization via reflection (XML; JSON) were the big incentive in the J2EE space if I recall correctly.
Records [0] are a modern form of data transfer object. They are immutable though. [0] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/language/records.h...
England & Wales only. The website is a response to new business rates (taxes) arriving this year. Scotland, Northern Ireland & the rest of the world play by different rules.
A tax based on property value. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjwgzwe2eyo
If I recall correctly Microsoft have always used Notepad as a test bed for new Windows APIs.
I understand your pessimism but believe IPv6 is coming. I worked on network management software, the kind of software that runs on out of band networks that are unlikely to ever need IPv6. In the beginning IPv6 was a…
I think it is fair to say that the USA rediscovered war fever after the attacks on home soil. It resulted in the land invasion of two countries. > There's a phrase people sometimes use about a nation's collective…
Matt Stoller claims that the USA's problems with egg prices are a result of a European duopoly on hen breeding and USA cartels leveraging exclusivity agreements. I have no way of knowing if that is true or not.
If the data centre is coastal then desalination might be an extra step. A salt water heat exchanger might do the job.
> Want a fridge? Good luck in market research. If paralysed by consumer choice I would lean on Which?[0] magazine which is run by the Consumers' Association charity. Perhaps there is something similar in your geography.…
They're using it internally. It's probably for the best that the last place they test it on is their customers.
Change at tier one telecoms providers tends to be glacial. It follows hardware upgrade cycles that take ages to plan and implement. I spent a decade writing element management systems. An element is a network device -…
I witnessed some of those bunkers on a day trip to [0]Butrint. The tour guide told us they were constantly being told the country was on the cusp of foreign invasion during the dictatorship. The locals had painted the…