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Comment They are still being made, by Unicomp (Score 1) 304

I am using a brand new Model M to type this message. Unicomp bought the rights and machinery to manufacture many IBM and Lexmark keyboards. You can buy them from the manufacturer here: http://www.pckeyboard.com/ . It is embarrassing that /. would advertise some shill refurb site without mentioning this great resource.

Comment Re: This shit is why managers think the cloud work (Score 1) 62

Sharepoint runs on PDP-11s? VAX? Alpha?

Microsoft Sharepoint first came out in 2001. I think if it ran on NT at the time it could run on an Alpha, but why would any company want to have an run MS Sharepoint on unsupported architecture today? It is not that difficult to transfer the MS Sharepoint infrastructure to current X86 architecture. Of course maintaining a Sharepoint structure or even a Wiki is a totally different thing.

Whoooosh....

Comment Re:Obj-C (Score 1) 316

You just quoted 106 characters to accomplish the following simple task:

print "Hello, World\n";

That's 23 characters to accomplish the same task, but the core issue isn't even really the character count alone. It's the verbosity combined with the requirement that an object be explicitly constructed to perform something that is a fundamentally procedural task.

So all of Java is garbage, because it is not enough like a scripting language?

You liking Python better is not a good enough reason for Java to be dismissed as trash, and it hardly justifies claiming it is worse than C++, of all the verbose garbage languages.

Try Groovy.

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