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cassandravoiton

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About cassandravoiton

Thirty something geekette

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    There is already a lot of mainframe offload. It seems that the middle range of mips is the sweet spot. Taking advantage of the services systems like JBOSS gives is, quite possibly,…

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    Ha! I use it all the time. Just the other day someone asked what this mixed windowing system was - I just explained and they say Doh!

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    Darn - commented in the wrong place - now I say Doh.

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    Ha! I use it all the time. Just the other day someone asked what this mixed windowing system was - I just explained and they say Doh!

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    Whilst I agree with the point that Linux UIs are not great - that has nothing what so ever to do with Linux. Linux knows nothing about the UI layer which is all X11. There is no ne…

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    More to the point - who cares. All these languages are hopelessly slow. If performance matters do it in a performant language like C++, C or FORTRAN. If it does not matter - then i…