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I think that several of the fallacies of distributed computing are being ignored here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

I believe that when you license Weblogic from Oracle, the Weblogic license includes a license for the Oracle JVM it runs on. So there is no reason to run Weblogic on another JDK/JV…

It is not shown, but I expect that Oracle EE is probably the most significant contributor to software licensing costs. If Oracle licensing was computed for 288 cores, that is total…

An alternative implementation of BigQuery? If the integration libraries are that bad, perhaps the market would go for a BigQuery alternative with better integration support. I expe…

> You don't pay investments back. They are a purchase of shares. The exchange is made and you're done. This is a common misunderstanding that equity funding is free. For the owner …

Why is this guy being called an inventor? The helicopter was invented over 100 year ago (1907). He was a tinkerer or hobbyist.

If Google is going to allow US employees to work from anywhere in the US, they should not be adjusting wages based on an employee's residence. Where an employee chooses to live bec…

The US is absolutely shooting for herd immunity now. Its just a question of how individual members of the herd want to achieve their immunity. They can take the easy way (vaccinati…

There has been alot of innovation in digital payments in India over the last 10 years. There are a number of local alternatives to traditional card brands. This might be a combinat…

How about adjusting the tax rate that is paid on income based on wealth? This would absolutely complicate the tax code for wealthy individuals, but it would certainly increase the …

I think that Sayre's law applies here. "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

Starting with Java 8, Java has been adopting functional programming ideas, and appears to be heavily influenced by Scala.

From the article: > But if you need some complex algorithms — particularly algorithms that do a lot of heavy mathematical lifting — then Lisp is the ideal choice. Is this right? I …

I agree, and packages and package private access is such a powerful tool in Java, that so many developers completely ignore.

Wow, that is pretty basic economic fallacy. Whether you hold coins today or not should not impact an investment decision. If the BTC you bought 10 years ago for $100 is worth $100,…

That first sequence diagram in the article reminds me of similar diagrams that I have seen for microservice based systems recently. Progress? Not so sure.

I think that you have the option with Quarkus to use the traditional JVM with byte code for development, and only generate exe's for stage or production deployment. Best of both wo…

Yes, the OP has this backwards. The Java sandbox would allow an application to limit the access granted to a library to protect from a malicious library. It does not protect a libr…

I think that there are alot of advantages to a using a declarative/functional programming style for these types of tools.

Looks like Power Fx could benefit from a dose of Haskell point free notation. Might help eliminate some of those parenthesis.

That seems completely irrelevant.

So it looks like Taler is designed as a consumer to merchant payment system, and not person to person. I suppose that person to person could work with banks serving as intermediari…

I think that it is called an immediate annuity. It is a standard insurance product that offers protection against outliving your assets. You pay a lump sum in return for a guarante…

I think that it is a mistake to call this a UI issue. Its not like a mistake was made because text was difficult to read, or because to check boxes were too close together and the …

Looking at the screen tells you nothing about the quality of this system. The screens look a bit dated because the system is 20 years old. It is also a back office system used by a…