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I have unknowingly bought commercial desktop software that turned out to be Java + SQLite under the hood. Don't know what they were using for UI.

> Sadly Java did not take Smalltalk's FP inspiration (I guess they were strayed by C++'s lead in that regard) You guess correctly. Java was easy for C++ developers to learn which w…

I don't really disagree. The software was released on 7 platforms, not counting multiple Windows versions. I don't know the risks or what platforms changes impact today or the test…

I may be misremembering a drunken conversation with a developer but IIRC the root cause was choice of cross-platform APIs available in early 2010s & the JSON file was tiny when int…

If GTA6 leaks they will not release this year & layoffs will follow. Different era, but shades of the Half Life 2 leak.

This brings back some (unpleasant) memories. But otherwise I admire the minimalism.

Anything relying on beans for (de)serialization via reflection (XML; JSON) were the big incentive in the J2EE space if I recall correctly.

Records [0] are a modern form of data transfer object. They are immutable though. [0] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/language/records.h...

England & Wales only. The website is a response to new business rates (taxes) arriving this year. Scotland, Northern Ireland & the rest of the world play by different rules.

A tax based on property value. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjwgzwe2eyo

If I recall correctly Microsoft have always used Notepad as a test bed for new Windows APIs.

I understand your pessimism but believe IPv6 is coming. I worked on network management software, the kind of software that runs on out of band networks that are unlikely to ever ne…

I think it is fair to say that the USA rediscovered war fever after the attacks on home soil. It resulted in the land invasion of two countries. > There's a phrase people sometimes…

Matt Stoller claims that the USA's problems with egg prices are a result of a European duopoly on hen breeding and USA cartels leveraging exclusivity agreements. I have no way of k…

If the data centre is coastal then desalination might be an extra step. A salt water heat exchanger might do the job.

> Want a fridge? Good luck in market research. If paralysed by consumer choice I would lean on Which?[0] magazine which is run by the Consumers' Association charity. Perhaps there …

They're using it internally. It's probably for the best that the last place they test it on is their customers.

Change at tier one telecoms providers tends to be glacial. It follows hardware upgrade cycles that take ages to plan and implement. I spent a decade writing element management syst…

I witnessed some of those bunkers on a day trip to [0]Butrint. The tour guide told us they were constantly being told the country was on the cusp of foreign invasion during the dic…

In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a number of banks issue bank notes. These banks print their own money because it is cheaper than paying the Bank of Engl…

The release of Java coincided with the rise of the internet. It wasn't just write once, run everywhere, it meant global interoperability. Mistakes were made of course.

String.format is much newer - it wasn't introduced until JDK 1.5. The choice expression is intended to account for different I18N language conventions. Imagine a language where plu…

Appreciate the answer.

Saying Java is terrible has been a thing since Java first came out. "It's strings aren't even mutable." - some C++ programmers.

What plug-ins do you use?