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Comment Re:2nd goal of a Java developer achieved.... (Score 1) 198

by rombertw on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @03:16PM (#31430312) Attached to: Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface

There is no operator overloading in Java.

In fact, there's much less magic in Java than in more hip languages, and that's a very good thing in my book.

Robert

Comment Walk of Life (Score 1) 5

by pudge on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @10:59AM (#30832824) Attached to: Industrial Disease

The boy can play!

Comment Re:Yup. (Score 1) 5

by pudge on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @10:57AM (#30832790) Attached to: Party Lines

Assuming Mass. (I am *not* spelling that out! :) is about as blue a state as Calif.

It's not, anymore. It was 20 years ago, but CA has dived much farther to the left.

and as jerrymandered to effect effectively permanent Democrat majorities in the state legislature

It's "Gerrymandered" with a "G" ... named after former legislator Elbridge Gerry from ... Massachusetts! :-) So yes, MA is the HOME of gerrymandering, and this is why there's currently only Democratic representation in Congress from the state (though soon to be broken with the addition of Brown).

But you can't gerrymander a Senate (or Governor) race. That's a big part of why you don't see Republicans in the House from MA, but you do see Republican Governors and (now) Senators.

Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You 102

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday September 11, 2009 @04:19PM from the learning-from-other's-mistakes dept.

CWmike writes "Twitter has modified its terms of service to state unequivocally that messages posted belong to their authors and not to the company. 'Twitter is allowed to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" your tweets because that's what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you,' wrote Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog post Thursday announcing the modifications. Twitter is still hammering out a set of guidelines for developers on the proper use of the company's API. What do Twitterers think of the TOS changes? Barbara Krasnoff writes, ' Twitter announces new ToS. Tweeters shrug,' noting that some appreciated the company's transparency in contacting its users and pointing out the changes that were being made."

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CWmike writes: "Twitter has modified its terms of service to state unequivocally that messages posted belong to their authors and not to the company. "Twitter is allowed to 'use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute' your tweets because that's what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you," wrote Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog post Thursday announcing the modifications. Twitter is still hammering out a set of guidelines for developers on the proper use of company's API. What do Twitterers think of the TOS changes? Barbara Krasnoff wirites, Twitter announces new ToS. Tweeters shrug," noting that some appreciated the company's transparency in contacting its users and pointing out the changes that were being made."

Oracle To Increase Investment In SPARC and Solaris 146

Posted by kdawson on Friday September 11, 2009 @08:48AM from the just-so's-you-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Slashdot community has recently questioned what Oracle will do with Sun hardware if and when Oracle's acquisition of Sun closes. And it seems that speculation about the future of SPARC hardware has been common among Slashdot commenters for years. That said, it seems newsworthy that Oracle is going out of their way with some aggressive marketing directed at IBM to state clearly their plans to put more money than Sun does now into SPARC and Solaris." MySQL is not mentioned in this ad, perhaps because (as Matt Asay speculates) the EU is looking closely into that aspect of the proposed acquisition.

Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server 113

Posted by timothy on Friday September 11, 2009 @04:08AM from the what-is-this-facebook-you-speak-of dept.

Dan Jones writes "Ah the irony. The week Facebook is being asked to cough up source code to satisfy an alleged patent infringement, the company releases an open source Web server. The Web server framework that Facebook will offer as open source is called Tornado, was written in the Python language and is designed for quickly processing thousands of simultaneous connections. Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which Facebook maintains. While Tornado is similar to existing Web-frameworks in Python, it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic."

Comment Mach 6 (Score 1) 131

by rombertw on Saturday September 05, 2009 @02:25PM (#29325283) Attached to: Mach 6 Test Aircraft Set For Trials

Is that somewhere around Warp 2?

Comment Re:Choosing a language (Score 1) 299

by rombertw on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @03:21PM (#29110813) Attached to: Scala, a Statically Typed, Functional, O-O Language

. Groovy will never have the kind of edit-time IDE intelligence simply due to it's dynamic nature. But for now, it stands ahead (after all, it has been around longer).

The SpringSource guys seems to hold a different opinion: http://blog.springsource.com/2009/07/30/a-groovier-eclipse-experience/ . They're doing some pretty neat stuff with Groovy in Eclipse.

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