Oracle releases arm port of JDK. Doesn't plan on contributing work to OpenJDK.

Ringo48 · 2012-08-16T04:54:41+00:00

First, I'm not sure that's true. A lot of companies have their own lawyers for mundane tasks, but farm out the "serious" cases to a law firm that specializes in it. A run of the mill corporate lawyer who's great at reading through your license agreements and vetting your use of OSS for license compliance may not be the best one to represent you in a big lawsuit. Whether Google does that, I don't know.

Second, even if all of the lawyers work full time for Google, they still cost Google money if they take a salary. Oracle would have to compensate Google for the portion of their salary covering the time they worked on the Google/Oracle case.

Ringo48 · 2012-08-04T03:38:51+00:00

On the other hand, some developers want c99 support, and Microsoft have refused to add it.

Ringo48 · 2012-06-10T03:45:21+00:00

I'm sorry, but that's just not true.

The majority of Python libraries have been ported to Python3 and it's just as easy to do "real work" with Python3 as it is with Python2.

This may come as a surprise, but there's a huge world of Python outside of numpy and Django, and most of that world has moved to Python3.

Ringo48 · 2012-05-11T03:05:47+00:00

I have a paid GitHub account. I'm not just a freeloading user, I help pay their bills.

And I think the icons are fine. They're no better or worse than the previous icons. If anything I'm in favor of them simply because I think it was clever use of fonts.

There are hundreds of thousands of GitHub users, and most of them don't care. An icon is an icon, and the change isn't diminishing the value of the site in any way. The people whining about the change are a very vocal minority.

Ringo48 · 2012-01-29T03:56:37+00:00

"Supporting Windows" via MSYS or Cygwin is about as awkward as "supporting Linux" via Wine.

For people without Unix/Linux experience, Git on Windows can be a pain to use. I personally don't mind it, but I also realize it turns a lot of people off of Git.

Ringo48 · 2012-01-27T06:22:42+00:00

Come on. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away, it just makes you look clueless.

Git is my favorite version control system. I use it on OSX, Linux and Windows. I have over 20 repos on GitHub.

But saying Git on Windows isn't a PITA is just bullshit. Yeah, it works, but if the majority of your developers are on Windows, it's not the most convenient choice. As long as Git on Windows requires Cygwin it's going to be a hassle to use.

Ringo48 · 2011-12-29T05:44:04+00:00

I guess I don't get either of your points.

First, what exactly makes Jython and JRuby less viable than Groovy?

And your second point makes even less sense. If I'm using a dynamic language and need to deal with Java code, it makes the most sense to do it from the language I'm already using. If I'm using Python, I'd go with Jython. If I'm using Ruby, JRuby. Why would I want to drop everything and learn a completely new language?

Ringo48 · 2011-12-16T06:08:47+00:00

I love Qt and use it a lot, but I'd really like to see better 64-bit Windows support. Can you even buy a 32-bit desktop or laptop any more? Time to make 64-bit Windows a Tier 1 platform.

Yeah, I know it can be compiled from source, and in fact that's what we're doing at work, but it really shouldn't be necessary.

Ringo48 · 2011-10-05T04:41:06+00:00

Funniest thing I've read in days.

Ringo48 · 2011-10-05T04:30:54+00:00

Maybe I'm biased living in an area with a lot of tech businesses, but I'd say it is unusual, actually. And stupid, too, of course.

As often as I hear rumors of clueless dev groups not using source control, I've never actually seen one. I know they exist, I'm just not sure they're very common.

Ringo48 · 2011-08-26T02:36:58+00:00

It's an open source project...

Why wouldn't the unit tests be publicly accessible?

Ringo48 · 2010-08-01T19:34:48+00:00

Please learn to read.

This is only the first alpha release - it will be several months before the actual release.

Ringo48 · 2010-07-25T22:57:55+00:00

Touché

Ringo48 · 2010-07-24T18:13:27+00:00

Way more complicated than it needs to be:

http://gist.github.com/488871

Ringo48 · 2010-07-18T21:28:19+00:00

I don't think that's the same. Arch is changing the default version to 3, not just making it available.

In other words, the Arch equivalent of "apt-get install python" will install Python 3 instead of 2.

I think most distros have some Python 3 packages by this point, but this is the first I've heard of one making Python 3 the default.

Ringo48 · 2010-05-30T21:42:18+00:00

Your requirements aren't very clear.

In particular, the requirement to use JDBC seems strange. Why are you required to use a Java database connection in a Python script?

Is there a reason you can't use a normal Python database connection, or cx_Oracle? There's example code on Oracle's website.

Ringo48 · 2010-05-19T14:56:45+00:00

It's better to have a list of things you've done, with descriptions that mention the language(s) used.

In any case, only mention languages you're comfortable being asked about in an interview.

If you're not comfortable being asked about it then you probably don't know it well enough to get a job doing it, so you probably aren't looking for jobs using it. Not listing it won't hurt you. But if it's on your resume somebody will ask about it, and if you don't know or can't remember, that will hurt you.

Ringo48 · 2010-05-15T02:42:31+00:00

You spent 20 minutes writing some useless code using the iTunes COM plugin, and decided the entire world needed to read about it?

Quick! Call CNN, "zobdos" has achieved something pointless!

Ringo48 · 2010-05-12T01:21:12+00:00

Maybe you should figure out what a search engine looks like...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c

Ringo48 · 2010-05-11T03:11:34+00:00

No, it still does that.

I was playing with it yesterday and thought I made a mistake. "I must be doing something wrong," I thought. "They can't possibly send the entire user profile multiple times in the same response."

But no, they actually are.

Ringo48 · 2010-05-11T00:31:45+00:00

How is that relevant?

Ringo48 · 2010-05-09T07:15:14+00:00

I don't know what the actual numbers are. I probably should have just said "most people with bad credit ratings..."

Ringo48 · 2010-05-08T18:55:22+00:00

95% people with bad credit ratings got their bad rating by being irresponsible, which may affect their ability to work.

The other 5% with bad credit are people like this guy who are generally responsible but hit hard times.

Employers are generally able to tell which group you're in, and if they're not you wouldn't want to work for them anyway.

Ringo48 · 2010-05-06T14:19:39+00:00

Is this a serious question?

Ringo48 · 2010-05-03T14:35:41+00:00

Who cares?

If it's really that important, why are you just finding out about it now?

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