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Comment The Circle of Life is complete! (Score 1) 358

I was a new software engineer at Sun when Java was developed; in the industry, lots of "old guard" people immediately started ragging on it. Now it's the scripting language kiddos who mostly rant about it as "old and outdated." Achievement unlocked!

It's a tool, nothing more nor less. It happens to be one that's good enough for a lot of tasks, with a huge installed base and many years of well-tested open-source libraries available. The only newish language that I see with a chance to topple it is Go, but it still has many years of development to match Java's reach and scope. (I went to the most recent Gophercon, and was impressed by the energy; I predict that Google will at some point ditch Java/Dalvik for a Go-based stack on Android.)

At this point, it's the plain vanilla ice cream of programming languages: maybe not your favorite, but it won't kill you, and will always do in a pinch!

Comment A bit of clarification (Score 5, Informative) 60

The rocket was in fact carrying satellites -- a large primary payload (HawaiiSat-1), and a number of small CubeSats.

http://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/wor...

The SuperStrypi is an evolved variant of a spin-stabilized 1960s sounding rocket, so the axial spin is expected, though the anomaly that ultimately doomed the mission was not!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Disclaimer: I helped port some code to run on the system board of one the CubeSats. Let's just say it was a disappointing afternoon....

Comment 1986, X10, in the WEB at Berkeley (not www) (Score 1) 204

The Workstations in Evans Basement (WEB), on a bunch of diskless Sun 4/50s running X10 with uwm.

Once I got settled in, I started running X11(R1? R2?) with a custom root window bitmap and fielded lots of questions from other undergrads about how I'd done it. I later worked at Sun on XNeWS and DeskSet, among other things.

Even to this day, I use X's network transparency, though mostly just for xterms at this point.

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