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FTA: "both are designed with runtime compilation in mind" vs "and interpreted , for maximum portability and dynamic capabilities." from Design Goals for the Java Programming Langua…

Basically how I got a First from Imperial. Have fun 9 months of the year. Last three months before exams, get all the problems, tests and exams available and answer them all.

Georges response should have been "i quit. now, what will you pay for an experienced lead developer who also happens to know your current system inside and out. Because i've recent…

You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks. How fast is too fast? I made a post on thread, then read another and three minutes later attempted to post on that thread and …

Here's what I know, having done a year of biochem at imperial college before switching to physics: Fluoride is incredibly reactive. Its more reactive than chlorine. It will happily…

Also new from BAE Systems, a new range of sunglasses, specifically for shielding against green light of a certain frequency. Available now through our African subsidiaries!

Are you saying we should put plutonium in the drinking water then? Or are you saying that, like "body radiation", fluoride should be prescribed by doctors after extensive testing t…

You don't have to have ID either. But if you get into a bar, and the bar didn't card you, then the bar owner can go to jail. This is the law. 1. Create national ID: its optional. Y…

I'm just staggered that this article doesn't even mention the most destructive personality at a company: the status-quo politician. This person absolutely has an agenda other than …

/world runs out to buy kinect just to be able to participate in class action suit.

You need more CPUs then :-) Also, there really is a difference between SSDs available right now. My Kingston SSDs have blocksizes of 120k (!). My OCZ Vertex2 has blocksize of 4k. I…

Solid State Discs in everything. Ok, perhaps not what you were asking, but they made a big difference for me. I have two, raid0 in my desktop, and a sandforce in my MBP. What a dif…

Absolutely: http://blog.binaryfinery.com/monotouch-qa This is written for potential clients, rather than hackers, but I do go a bit deeper into why ObjectiveC sucks near the bottom…

Oh, yeah, of course. You ARE going to need it. You're different. Mod me down for my lack of understanding how awesome you are.

"Mac iOS dev tools are beautiful and extremely slick" And yet have features found in SlickEdit circa 1992. Twenty fucking years later I'd expect my IDE to a bit smarter. It might l…

The problem Feathers describes has a simple cause: the classes in java, C# etc are a premature optimization. The rewrite described, in my experience, is caused because having to re…

YAGNI.

Whats the start-up time? i.e. when google spins up a new instance to handle traffic, how quickly can it come up?

That's why I use google appengine. It would have handled what you describe without even going over the daily free limit. Of course, you wouldn't be cool as rails.

As you read these wonderful theories, remember that economist who was chosen as the best economist to run the US Federal Reserve said in 2005 that "now is the best time to get an A…

Nice, neat, simple equations and math, at the Macro level. To put this in hacker terms, these simple rules are about as simple as the http protocol. Now imagine the software that i…

Yes, quite right. We'll benefit in the same way that countries like Equador or Nigeria benefit from the USA's innovation, wealth and power. Which is to say, if that if we have some…

"A (protectionist) wall may keep the outsiders out; but it also keeps the insiders in...." As opposed to our policy, which is to give hundreds of billions of dollars to China every…

Could we do something about this? Yes. Will "we", and by "we" I mean the government run by rich folks? Never. But as the rich destroy the social fabric of the USA, they will get th…

My grandfather use to complain about "coolies" coming on board his ship (he was chief engineer) posing as customs and just making drawings. "They are just copying us" he would comp…