It's amazing that a journalist can talk to an expert like Edelman and still put out such a terrible article. Nowhere in the article does it mention that in the USA Google is protected by the DMCA Safe Harbor. Unlike the Pirate Bay, Google removes links to infringing material from their index as soon as they have actual knowledge of it.
Google isn't calling their product Java. Google's product is called AppEngine. Google is free to say that AppEngine has "Java(TM) Language Support" without getting permission from Sun or anyone else.
Wow, you're willing to execute someone based on "a preponderance of evidence?" In the USA, you can't even convict someone of stealing a pack of gum on such a low standard. Criminal convictions require proof "beyond reasonable doubt."
Perhaps this creates enough "reasonable doubt" to evade a criminal conviction in the absence of other evidence. However, for a civil infringement suit the standard of proof is the much lower "preponderance of evidence."
According to the rebuttals in the comments of the blog post in one of my sibling posts here, part of Twitter's scalability problem was poor implementation of the Ruby interpreter. Lots of small objects cause the heap to get fragmented and eventually it runs out of memory. Java interpreters have better GC and you can swap out different GC algorithms in some of them.
Why does everyone assume the people at Twitter are a bunch of newbies who don't know about deep engineering? Is it just because their analysis didn't lead them to your preferred buzzword?
Maybe they use Scala because writing Java code is painful by comparison. Tons of boilerplate, every exception has to be caught in every scope, no pattern matching, no named arguments, and on and on. For people like me, without Scala the JVM wouldn't even be under consideration, though I admit that Java has been more usable since it got generics.
Groovy is very slow. Maybe that will get better in Java 7. There are probably other meaningful differences that I would be able to point out if I were better versed in Groovy.
If I want to use any Java software then I'll use Scala. I see people bashing Scala, saying the languages they know are good enough or they can just use jython/jruby/groovy, but they clearly know little about Scala.
One thing that's nice about Scala that Java, Jython, JRuby, and Groovy all lack is it's powerful type system and pattern matching. Once you get used to good pattern matching like in Scala, SML, OCaml, or Haskell you won't want to go back. Plus you get all the benefits of running on the JVM at high speed (unlike all the aforementioned JVM languages, except Java itself.)
Honestly, you should check out Scala before you bash it. It's a very good choice wherever you might choose Java, which is a good choice for the back end. Twitter's developers are smart and experienced. They didn't choose Scala just to be cool. It is a powerful tool that can get the job done in an elegant way.
Something is very fishy about all these Craigslist success stories. Everyone knows you can't have a successful web site without lots of blinking flash ads staring you right in the face. I mean, look at Craigslist, it hasn't even had a bit of Search Engine Optimization added. Just think about how much more money they could be making if they replaced every <a> tag with a Javascript function.
Sun only came into the consciousness of the unwashed masses with the company not being able to get E10K's out the door fast enough in the first bubble.
uhhhh, no. Sun entered the consciousness of the unwashed masses in 1995-1996 when, in an entirely unprecedented maneuver, it spent millions of dollars advertising a programming language. My mom actually called me to ask me about this "Java" thing and what she should do about it. No, my mom does not know how to program.
If you're selling necessary refactoring as an independent project then you're doing it wrong. Take a hint from Congress, bundle refactoring in with the new features that depend on it. An experienced legislator knows you bury the pork in a bill that the opposition would not dare obstruct.
Incoming freshmen also prefer burgers & fries to foie gras & truffles, The Daily Show to McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, Linkin' Park to Lincoln Center, etc...
Game publishers are becoming just like the movie studios.... except aren't the movie studios supposed to be dinosaurs from a bygone age, their empires being slowly chipped away as they fail to adapt to the new reality of cheap distribution, mainly because they dare not slight the theaters or WalMart? Does this mean the age of epic scale games with budgets in the tens of millions is coming to a close as indie developers buck the system by distributing their own games while pirates sap the publishers remaining profits?
This used to be true but it's not nearly so much any more. Every language in use these days has standard RPC ready to go such as XMLRPC, JSONRPC, SOAP, etc... There is also now stuff like Thrift, which is available for a dozen languages that are in common use. Thrift, being much more than just a protocol, has client and server implementations for all target platforms with a consistent API.
On the back end, multi language is here to stay and the way to go unless you like rewriting stuff just so you can have it in your pet language (this brain damage seems most common in the Java world.)
It's been 13 years...
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It's been 13 years but somehow we're still in September.
I'm only an amateur astronomer but... With adaptive optics we can get better visible light images with ground based telescopes like Keck than with any orbiting telecope that could be launched any time soon. However, infrared is blocked by the atmosphere so an observatory without an atmosphere is required.
Scientific publications already have a web of trust in the list of cites at the bottom. Publications don't get cited unless they are notable in some way.
Works of authorship become protected by Copyright as soon as they are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. A Copyright notice is not necessary anymore. However, it is a good idea since it establishes authorship and date of authorship, and reduces the possibility that someone might innocently believe the work is not protected.
If the copy was lawfully made (i.e. with permission of the Copyright holder) then it belongs to the person who owns the piece of paper. The Copyright holder can't demand that they return it, destroy it, not sell it, etc... It's called the "Doctrine of First Sale." You don't need a license to "use" your own legit copy of anything, with some exceptions for creation of derivate works, public performance to people not in the presence of the physical copy, rental of software, and a few others.
The teacher can only achieve the desired outcome by entering into an agreement (i.e. a Contract) with the students beforehand that all copies of the notes will be turned at the end of the semester. In other words, there's nothing in Copyright law that gives the Teacher the right demand the students return their notes, even if they copied them from the teacher with his permission.
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Lossless is important for archival purposes. What do you do when a new lossy codec with significantly better performance comes out?
I stopped reading after this.
It's amazing that a journalist can talk to an expert like Edelman and still put out such a terrible article. Nowhere in the article does it mention that in the USA Google is protected by the DMCA Safe Harbor. Unlike the Pirate Bay, Google removes links to infringing material from their index as soon as they have actual knowledge of it.
Google isn't calling their product Java. Google's product is called AppEngine. Google is free to say that AppEngine has "Java(TM) Language Support" without getting permission from Sun or anyone else.
Trademark isn't an absolute monopoly on the mark.
I believe the technical term is "cam whore."
Wow, you're willing to execute someone based on "a preponderance of evidence?" In the USA, you can't even convict someone of stealing a pack of gum on such a low standard. Criminal convictions require proof "beyond reasonable doubt."
Perhaps this creates enough "reasonable doubt" to evade a criminal conviction in the absence of other evidence. However, for a civil infringement suit the standard of proof is the much lower "preponderance of evidence."
In the USA at least...
I'm not talking about regexps, I'm talking about object pattern matching in switch/case statements.
According to the rebuttals in the comments of the blog post in one of my sibling posts here, part of Twitter's scalability problem was poor implementation of the Ruby interpreter. Lots of small objects cause the heap to get fragmented and eventually it runs out of memory. Java interpreters have better GC and you can swap out different GC algorithms in some of them.
Why does everyone assume the people at Twitter are a bunch of newbies who don't know about deep engineering? Is it just because their analysis didn't lead them to your preferred buzzword?
Maybe they use Scala because writing Java code is painful by comparison. Tons of boilerplate, every exception has to be caught in every scope, no pattern matching, no named arguments, and on and on. For people like me, without Scala the JVM wouldn't even be under consideration, though I admit that Java has been more usable since it got generics.
Groovy is very slow. Maybe that will get better in Java 7. There are probably other meaningful differences that I would be able to point out if I were better versed in Groovy.
If I want to use any Java software then I'll use Scala. I see people bashing Scala, saying the languages they know are good enough or they can just use jython/jruby/groovy, but they clearly know little about Scala.
One thing that's nice about Scala that Java, Jython, JRuby, and Groovy all lack is it's powerful type system and pattern matching. Once you get used to good pattern matching like in Scala, SML, OCaml, or Haskell you won't want to go back. Plus you get all the benefits of running on the JVM at high speed (unlike all the aforementioned JVM languages, except Java itself.)
Honestly, you should check out Scala before you bash it. It's a very good choice wherever you might choose Java, which is a good choice for the back end. Twitter's developers are smart and experienced. They didn't choose Scala just to be cool. It is a powerful tool that can get the job done in an elegant way.
Something is very fishy about all these Craigslist success stories. Everyone knows you can't have a successful web site without lots of blinking flash ads staring you right in the face. I mean, look at Craigslist, it hasn't even had a bit of Search Engine Optimization added. Just think about how much more money they could be making if they replaced every <a> tag with a Javascript function.
uhhhh, no. Sun entered the consciousness of the unwashed masses in 1995-1996 when, in an entirely unprecedented maneuver, it spent millions of dollars advertising a programming language. My mom actually called me to ask me about this "Java" thing and what she should do about it. No, my mom does not know how to program.
If you're selling necessary refactoring as an independent project then you're doing it wrong. Take a hint from Congress, bundle refactoring in with the new features that depend on it. An experienced legislator knows you bury the pork in a bill that the opposition would not dare obstruct.
apparently it's still around but it's now "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"
you got me, I don't watch TV any more!!
Incoming freshmen also prefer burgers & fries to foie gras & truffles, The Daily Show to McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, Linkin' Park to Lincoln Center, etc...
Game publishers are becoming just like the movie studios.... except aren't the movie studios supposed to be dinosaurs from a bygone age, their empires being slowly chipped away as they fail to adapt to the new reality of cheap distribution, mainly because they dare not slight the theaters or WalMart? Does this mean the age of epic scale games with budgets in the tens of millions is coming to a close as indie developers buck the system by distributing their own games while pirates sap the publishers remaining profits?
Film at 11?
This used to be true but it's not nearly so much any more. Every language in use these days has standard RPC ready to go such as XMLRPC, JSONRPC, SOAP, etc... There is also now stuff like Thrift, which is available for a dozen languages that are in common use. Thrift, being much more than just a protocol, has client and server implementations for all target platforms with a consistent API.
On the back end, multi language is here to stay and the way to go unless you like rewriting stuff just so you can have it in your pet language (this brain damage seems most common in the Java world.)
It's been 13 years but somehow we're still in September.
I'm only an amateur astronomer but... With adaptive optics we can get better visible light images with ground based telescopes like Keck than with any orbiting telecope that could be launched any time soon. However, infrared is blocked by the atmosphere so an observatory without an atmosphere is required.
Scientific publications already have a web of trust in the list of cites at the bottom. Publications don't get cited unless they are notable in some way.
Works of authorship become protected by Copyright as soon as they are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. A Copyright notice is not necessary anymore. However, it is a good idea since it establishes authorship and date of authorship, and reduces the possibility that someone might innocently believe the work is not protected.
If the copy was lawfully made (i.e. with permission of the Copyright holder) then it belongs to the person who owns the piece of paper. The Copyright holder can't demand that they return it, destroy it, not sell it, etc... It's called the "Doctrine of First Sale." You don't need a license to "use" your own legit copy of anything, with some exceptions for creation of derivate works, public performance to people not in the presence of the physical copy, rental of software, and a few others.
The teacher can only achieve the desired outcome by entering into an agreement (i.e. a Contract) with the students beforehand that all copies of the notes will be turned at the end of the semester. In other words, there's nothing in Copyright law that gives the Teacher the right demand the students return their notes, even if they copied them from the teacher with his permission.