You can trivially simulate Lambdas in Java by wrapping them in a 'Lambda' class with a single method (Object arg, Object return, generics to taste) with the overhead of a small additional amount of typing.
I use such a construct almost every day for such things as threaded functional transforms, closures, etc.
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You obviously didn't have a project which involved rapid-prototyping with customers, copious tickets from various platforms (dev, staging, UAT, etc), numerous draft specifications, code developed from geographically separate sites and timezones, etc, etc.
Trying to keep all that together in various apps (email, ticket systems, word docs) is very time-consuming and error-prone. Wave was, in my (brief) experience of it, a powerful solution to this problem.
The O.P. is right, it was pushed to the wrong people. I only knew about it secondhand through a workmate who knew a Google employee. It was too 'cliquey' and only available to geeks who didn't give a screw about it. Real shame.
Android is the 'PC' of mobile phones. Apple is, well, the 'Apple'...
Eventual share will be 90% Android, 10% Apple.
Apple haven't really helped themselves with such design atrocities as the iPhone 4 bumper. Feeling that awful plasticky thing in my hand after being impressed by the svelte unadorned original almost made me cry. I can't imagine what Jonathon Ive thinks of it.
I'm a fan of Leica cameras; I've got three Ms (all different numbers - 3,4 and 6). The idea of putting a crass rubber bumper on one to fix a design flaw is anathema - they are a thing of ergonomic beauty and a joy to hold. Is this what Steve had in mind when he introduced the 4 and compared it to a Leica?
I did Occam in the 80s and server-side Java now. Java is way more powerful for parallel processing and the simplification in Occam (essentially a built-in parallel functional transform aka the 'threaded for loop') can be replicated with a fairly simple Java library that almost any experienced programmer has written for themselves. I literally use one every day.
Only newbies are wrestling with Thread.start() and mutex locking. Everybody else has abstracted this long ago.
That's why you should fear HTML5. If Flash dies, those adverts will become trickier to block. Sure Noscript may do it if the script host is different, but they'll work around that.
Not quite. SG Warburg was bought by SBC (Swiss Bank Corporation) and became SBC Warburg. SBC merged with UBS later in the decade. Cool place SBC Warburg. It had wall-to-wall NeXT machines, the taste for which SBC had inherited from O'Connor.
The fragmentation is only at the level of the top level GUI - almost like the difference between Windows Classic and the more recent styles. The apps will still run unchanged on all Android phones (assuming Android version compatibility) and that's the important thing.
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Is there any reason that you couldn't pick up a cheap computer and learn C yourself?
It was definitely a prototype tool useful for sharing only within a small completely trusted group of individuals.
Which made it absolutely ideal for a development project involving customers, project managers, developers and testers.
You can trivially simulate Lambdas in Java by wrapping them in a 'Lambda' class with a single method (Object arg, Object return, generics to taste) with the overhead of a small additional amount of typing.
I use such a construct almost every day for such things as threaded functional transforms, closures, etc.
You obviously didn't have a project which involved rapid-prototyping with customers, copious tickets from various platforms (dev, staging, UAT, etc), numerous draft specifications, code developed from geographically separate sites and timezones, etc, etc.
Trying to keep all that together in various apps (email, ticket systems, word docs) is very time-consuming and error-prone. Wave was, in my (brief) experience of it, a powerful solution to this problem.
The O.P. is right, it was pushed to the wrong people. I only knew about it secondhand through a workmate who knew a Google employee. It was too 'cliquey' and only available to geeks who didn't give a screw about it. Real shame.
Yes, but does anyone care about the opinions of someone who can't manage to write basic English and confesses to activities such as "Facetwitting"?
Android is the 'PC' of mobile phones. Apple is, well, the 'Apple'...
Eventual share will be 90% Android, 10% Apple.
Apple haven't really helped themselves with such design atrocities as the iPhone 4 bumper. Feeling that awful plasticky thing in my hand after being impressed by the svelte unadorned original almost made me cry. I can't imagine what Jonathon Ive thinks of it.
Not a religion - what you describe is closer to a cult.
That's as maybe. But then, what about Eve?
Indeed it does - in the same way that vomit has a more intense smell than lilac.
I'm a fan of Leica cameras; I've got three Ms (all different numbers - 3,4 and 6). The idea of putting a crass rubber bumper on one to fix a design flaw is anathema - they are a thing of ergonomic beauty and a joy to hold. Is this what Steve had in mind when he introduced the 4 and compared it to a Leica?
That sounds like the basis for a religious text.
Why write our own? Because we love doing it!
As for that old chestnut, CSP: I'll quote the Bard:
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I did Occam in the 80s and server-side Java now. Java is way more powerful for parallel processing and the simplification in Occam (essentially a built-in parallel functional transform aka the 'threaded for loop') can be replicated with a fairly simple Java library that almost any experienced programmer has written for themselves. I literally use one every day. Only newbies are wrestling with Thread.start() and mutex locking. Everybody else has abstracted this long ago.
That's why you should fear HTML5. If Flash dies, those adverts will become trickier to block. Sure Noscript may do it if the script host is different, but they'll work around that.
Not quite. SG Warburg was bought by SBC (Swiss Bank Corporation) and became SBC Warburg. SBC merged with UBS later in the decade. Cool place SBC Warburg. It had wall-to-wall NeXT machines, the taste for which SBC had inherited from O'Connor.
The fragmentation is only at the level of the top level GUI - almost like the difference between Windows Classic and the more recent styles. The apps will still run unchanged on all Android phones (assuming Android version compatibility) and that's the important thing.