Comment Re:No Surprise Here (Score 5, Insightful) 162
Change you can believe in right? I'm not a republican, or even American. But it's business as usual in Washington DC.
Comment Re:Java is cool (Score 1) 292
There are some pretty cool developments going on in Java lately, e.g. LINQ, functions and reified generics. Why wait for the JCP when there are enough mad people out there who will implement all the tools that Java is perceived to lack? See for example: https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light
Comment Re:Correction (Score 1) 3
I should also mention that I'm the author of this.
Comment Correction (Score 1) 3
Actually the link to the library should be https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light
Submission + - Java LINQ (github.com) 3
nicholas22 writes: "A Java library providing LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) has been developed, using a Scala-style programming library called lombok-pg, that supports features not found in standard JDK libraries, such as extension methods, yield coroutines and functions.
Examples (valid Java):
String[] names = new String[] { "james", "john", "john", "eddie" }.where(startsWith("j")).distinct();
char[] alphabet = new Character('A').to(new Character('Z')).unbox();
This Java code would take approximately 4x the number of lines of code."
Examples (valid Java):
String[] names = new String[] { "james", "john", "john", "eddie" }.where(startsWith("j")).distinct();
char[] alphabet = new Character('A').to(new Character('Z')).unbox();
This Java code would take approximately 4x the number of lines of code."
Submission + - Oracle to bring Dtrace on Linux
mvar writes: Dtrace co-author Adam Leventhal writes on his blog about Dtrace for Linux:
Yesterday (October 4, 2011) Oracle made the surprising announcement that they would be porting some key Solaris features, DTrace and Zones, to Oracle Enterprise Linux. As one of the original authors, the news about DTrace was particularly interesting to me, so I started digging.
Even among Oracle employees, there’s uncertainty about what was announced. Ed Screven gave us just a couple of bullet points in his keynote; Sergio Leunissen, the product manager for OEL, didn’t have further details in his OpenWorld talk beyond it being a beta of limited functionality; and the entire Solaris team seemed completely taken by surprise.
Leunissen stated that only the kernel components of DTrace are part of the port. It’s unclear whether that means just fbt or includes sdt and the related providers. It sounds certain, though, that it won’t pass the DTrace test suite which is the deciding criterion between a DTrace port and some sort of work in progress.
Yesterday (October 4, 2011) Oracle made the surprising announcement that they would be porting some key Solaris features, DTrace and Zones, to Oracle Enterprise Linux. As one of the original authors, the news about DTrace was particularly interesting to me, so I started digging.
Even among Oracle employees, there’s uncertainty about what was announced. Ed Screven gave us just a couple of bullet points in his keynote; Sergio Leunissen, the product manager for OEL, didn’t have further details in his OpenWorld talk beyond it being a beta of limited functionality; and the entire Solaris team seemed completely taken by surprise.
Leunissen stated that only the kernel components of DTrace are part of the port. It’s unclear whether that means just fbt or includes sdt and the related providers. It sounds certain, though, that it won’t pass the DTrace test suite which is the deciding criterion between a DTrace port and some sort of work in progress.
Comment Re:Lameness (Score 0) 1613
Rest in piece, you run yourself to the ground, for the rest of us?
Comment Not really (Score 4, Insightful) 121
It's much easier to look for spikes or what your data looks like *after* an important event has taken place, than to actually predict them. I'm sure that even if I look at my computer logs on a significant date, there's most likely something there that I would class as interesting or out of the ordinary, in hindsight, too...
Comment Who needs native code? (Score 5, Funny) 134
CPUs
Comment Re:Apple cares only about profit (Score 0) 346
Sorry but no, not all corporations are like that. In fact, there are many corporations that put environmental and social responsibilities first. And also no to your second argument, voting with your wallet actually does work. I don't know if you're an Apple consumer or just naive, but these are facts.
Comment Sun (Score 3, Interesting) 204
And THAT is the answer to the question "why did Google not buy Sun". It is cheaper to just some nickels and dimes now. And I guess they didn't need Solaris.
Comment First post! (Score 1) 127
Wasn't this posted a few days ago?
Comment Re:They're spending a lot of money on this? (Score 1) 377
Sorry but I think parent talks a load of bull. How can it be modded interesting? The guy is talking about modeling and analysis but not about any facts/evidence of success about its predictive nature. In other words, he merely said that you can do more with more computing power. Sorry but... isn't that obvious?
Comment Re:Say waht you will about MS (Score 1) 474
Putting all of it in one tank is not practical. Surely we could have multiple tanks. And you are assuming that the entire energy grid is powered by wind power. Plus efficiencies could be made by the time it all got to that point.
Comment Re:Danger, Will Robinson! (Score 1) 102
Because I wasn't referring to backups, just noticed that he has a bunch of Apple kit. Cranky much?
