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You are right in that desktop Java aldready was a mess when Oracle took over. And I agree that distribution was a hassle. At the time it was hard to create standalone .exe or .msi …

Sourcesafe is a 90-era product. PDP-11 was discontinued long before Sourcesafe was even released. There were version control software around in the 70’s but I do not think that the…

Flatrate models usually means that a large majority of users actually covers the costs for a the minority high consumers. It is true that the marginal cost for more transmitted dat…

Why on earth would you buy a sedan if you need to haul stuff/dogs around?

It used to be that Swing/AWT really sucked. The default theme on every platform (Metal) was really ugly. Everything was purple. The "native" look and feel was emulated (poorly). It…

I've worked professionally on a fairly large SWT-based project. This project was started when Swing was slow and ugly so SWT probably seemed fresh. Also, having a native L&F was im…

The Wikipedia article seems to suggest that it's very popular in parts of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_process... Here in Sweden no one really buys …

First of all, if a company fires someone because they are on parental leave, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Now how a company handles employees depends. In some cases you hire…

The fact that this can now be run in a browser on a laptop rather than a high end gaming rig is indeed amazing.

What you say is about deer hunting in Sweden is true. But only for Roe deer. They are quite small deers that you are allowed to hunt with shotguns and Class 2 rifles, meaning 800j …

Try using a text file and grep?

You are right, but for a while this was not true. When Apple switched to x86 the MacBook was competitively priced. I remember buying one because it was cheaper than comparable PCs.…

The article does not answer the "why" at all. Just some theories that might or (maybe more likely) might not be the explanation