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Submission + - Everything About Java 8 (techempower.com)

Submitted by reygahnci on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @02:35PM

reygahnci writes: I found a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8 including: improvements to interfaces, functional interfaces, lambdas, functions, streams, parallels, date/time improvements, and more. The article includes example code with realistic examples of use as well as explaining the reasoning behind some of the choices made by the developers who are working on Java 8.

Comment Re:Insanity. (Score 1) 673

by reygahnci on Thursday January 28, 2010 @11:36AM (#30933814) Attached to: Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn

I wonder if the guy could argue using simple maths: Lisa/Bart/Maggy/et al were at least 1 year old on the first show. He could suggest that the images were created in 2009, 21 years after the first airing. Therefore, though the characters may LOOK like they are young, they are technically of legal age.

Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov? 207

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @09:24AM from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

theodp writes "Over at Intelligent Enterprise, Seth Grimes declares the Federal Government's USAspending.gov website a travesty, calling it 'almost a parody of a government-transparency site.' Among the faults cited by Grimes is a botched 'Federal Spending FY 2009 YTD' pie chart that graced USAspending.gov's home page. Not only were the sizes of pie segments not in proportion to the percentage labels (due to a Google Chart API error), the colors in the pie chart didn't even match the colors and values in the table immediately below the chart. Lucky for the Feds, Grimes didn't get a chance to look behind the curtain at the Federal IT Dashboard, where they forgot to remove a (commented) reference to a Google spreadsheet that states 'These totals are pretty poor numbers' (Google workbook). Oops!"

Comment Re:I can see the press now (Score 1) 993

by reygahnci on Thursday April 16, 2009 @12:04PM (#27598809) Attached to: "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft

Good point... eventually this is what it came down to: It will cost me $X more dollars on my one-time purchase to get a Mac Pro instead of a high-end personally built PC with Windows, but on the other hand, I will never have to utter the phrase "time to reformat" ever again... worth every penny.

Comment Re:Meh. (Score 1) 993

by reygahnci on Thursday April 16, 2009 @11:58AM (#27598727) Attached to: "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft

Do what I do, I have a Mac I use for development and 90% of my usual stuff. I play WoW on my Mac, and if I ever feel the NEED to play a windows-only game (Counter-Strike, L4D, etc), I switch over to my windows installation ON my Mac and play for a couple hours, then switch back. Boot Camp really does make the difference. One day I'll be able to play all my games on my Mac without restarting, but this is a VERY happy medium until then.

Comment Re:It seems they value that more than education. (Score 1) 331

by reygahnci on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @11:41AM (#25802007) Attached to: New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations

More likely, potential students will see the costs of going to school in state versus going to school out of state and make the right financial decision, thereby leaving the institutions at risk which will cause them to "police" the matter differently (read: not at all unless directly forced to) to gain back lost revenue.

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