Eclipse doesn't freeze for years for me and its performance is pretty ok for JavaEE development. I guess people are stuck with this "eclipse is slow" opinion just like some people still think java is slow.
Before all this, people didn't even think about creating a real competitor for Google or Amazon. Now we can expect some real options for these services soon. This is good news for everyone, thank you USA!
A little bit off-topic, but worth mentioning, Chris Hadfield has been recording interesting short videos from the ISS about how's life over there: http://www.youtube.com/user/canadianspaceagency
All of you who jumped on the bandwagon and created Palm Pilot apps, how's that skill set working out now?
It was fun and useful for me when I wrote some apps for my own use. Now it's useful to compare palm apps with android and iOS apps and see how things changed or didn't.
gog.com is still much better because you don't have to be connected to steam to validate your ownership of a game. You don't have to deal with buggy software and games that don't work correctly with it as bonus. Just double-click the executable and be happy.
It can be done without functional programming, see D's immutable keyword and thread-local instead of global variables by default. It seems the results of this research would fit very well in D rules.
In self-documenting code you generally only need to explain why you did something some way if you do something unusual, a large part of the code is/should be very straightforwad.
You can't block websites, they'll just pop up under different names and addresses easily discovered with a google search. You should define which websites are allowed like North Korea does with their own internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea).
What if you have to download only the first level to start playing? The next level is downloaded in background. Maybe people wouldn't even download the whole game because some developers have said that most people don't even get half-way through their games.
You really shouldn't be using C or C++ for user facing applications, unless you're doing Battlefield or something like that. You better be worrying about features than memory management and such.
Android and JavaME are the biggest mobile platforms today so java actually is the biggest winner in tablets, phones, tv cable/over the air boxes, bluray, etc.
In the corporate world, the majority of programmers must use hardware provided by the company that follows strict guidelines about what can be used and that includes Windows-only for the most part. The majority of production deployments are on Linux machines, so there you have a heterogeneous environment where write-once, run-anywhere is necessary.
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OSGi is a mess, I'm glad we're not going to use a runtime solution for something best solved at build time such as modularity for Java.
Eclipse doesn't freeze for years for me and its performance is pretty ok for JavaEE development. I guess people are stuck with this "eclipse is slow" opinion just like some people still think java is slow.
Before all this, people didn't even think about creating a real competitor for Google or Amazon. Now we can expect some real options for these services soon. This is good news for everyone, thank you USA!
Amazon already has an availability zone in São Paulo, Brazil.
Does anyone know about any plans AMD might have to implement that unified memory model in next-gen consoles in desktop PCs?
A little bit off-topic, but worth mentioning, Chris Hadfield has been recording interesting short videos from the ISS about how's life over there: http://www.youtube.com/user/canadianspaceagency
All of you who jumped on the bandwagon and created Palm Pilot apps, how's that skill set working out now?
It was fun and useful for me when I wrote some apps for my own use. Now it's useful to compare palm apps with android and iOS apps and see how things changed or didn't.
gog.com is still much better because you don't have to be connected to steam to validate your ownership of a game. You don't have to deal with buggy software and games that don't work correctly with it as bonus. Just double-click the executable and be happy.
Restriction on redistribution of parts of the SDK was already there, the critical section seems to be loading it onto mobile handsets.
I don't think so, they are targeting phonegap which is html, javascript and css only.
It can be done without functional programming, see D's immutable keyword and thread-local instead of global variables by default. It seems the results of this research would fit very well in D rules.
You may want to give Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/) a try.
I can tell you that Brazilians tend to not give much thought to the government having that information.
The general public in the world doesn't give much thought to anyone having that information.
But changing your name can make you lose some good reputation/respect you've built under the old name.
These things are not problems for the average user who needs to stream only an MP3 file.
In self-documenting code you generally only need to explain why you did something some way if you do something unusual, a large part of the code is/should be very straightforwad.
You can't block websites, they'll just pop up under different names and addresses easily discovered with a google search. You should define which websites are allowed like North Korea does with their own internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea).
What if you have to download only the first level to start playing? The next level is downloaded in background. Maybe people wouldn't even download the whole game because some developers have said that most people don't even get half-way through their games.
Java is not the problem, Dalvik is. Hotspot is faster but it wasn't implemented at Google so...
You really shouldn't be using C or C++ for user facing applications, unless you're doing Battlefield or something like that. You better be worrying about features than memory management and such.
Android and JavaME are the biggest mobile platforms today so java actually is the biggest winner in tablets, phones, tv cable/over the air boxes, bluray, etc.
Java + SWT is great for the desktop. The best portable runtime environment with native look and feel. What more do you want on top of that?
Isn't there a nanofoot, imperial units users?
No, that means that virtual machines could and did dominate mobile platforms since the start of mobile computing in cellphones and things like that.
In the corporate world, the majority of programmers must use hardware provided by the company that follows strict guidelines about what can be used and that includes Windows-only for the most part. The majority of production deployments are on Linux machines, so there you have a heterogeneous environment where write-once, run-anywhere is necessary.