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Why is a local domain useful? I mean, what's wrong with your local machines having only a hostname with no domain at all?

> Sad that a generation of talented people is basically harvested by the gov for hacking and theft

What's wrong with that? Would it be better if they were harvested by corporations to just make far more questionable things?

It doesn't really make a difference, does it?

You know, candidate/preview releases have been available for some time, if you can't wait to test these new features:

https://jdk.java.net/14/

> The infrastructure of catalunya (high speed trains, ports, highways, etc...) have been paid by all spaniards during many, many years. Like ways, may people from all over Spain live and work in catalunya and viceversa.

It's not like it was paid only by people from outside Catalonia. In fact, the catalan people, pay taxes as well, and that money was used to fund developments outside Catalonia too. And this not only happens at a country level, there are for example funds from the European Union like the ERDF. Does that mean that Scotland should never leave the UK (and therefore the EU) because their roads -for example- have been paid by the european people for many, many years?

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

Ok. We know you know a lot about the "Castillian Spanish" language. And maybe about a ton of other things. But it seems kind of pointless, given the note was already translated by the Spanish Guardia Civil, don't you think?

I used to enjoy reading Larry McVoy's comments here,

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luckydude

Unfortunately, he hasn't written any comment here for more than a year.

It's the same effort it takes to run Linux in virtualization to test your software on it yet nobody does.

Well, it's not my fault that I can't use Edge on my operating system of choice. It's not "YOU don't test your work in Egde" but "YOU don't test your work in Edge but you wouldn't be able to". So please, do not blame the users, but Microsoft.

Of course, they're a for profit company. And I understand they will do everything they can to undermine competition. That's why I also don't buy this "new cool Microsoft" mantra.

Why should they fork an open, actively maintained project like OpenJDK? It would only create incompatibilities between them.

Death penalty? At least that's what they call it in the USA.

Lol, I wish I could keep getting my _Oracle_ JDK updated from the package manager. Unfortunately that stopped being a thing after Java6 with some licensing changes that made it impossible for distributions to package Java (if I recall correctly).

Well, OpenJDK is also free in both ways, GPL licensed, so I don't think there's any difference.

But why all the effort needed when you can simply use the open-source Java version called OpenJDK? It's virtually identical to Oracle's JDK, only without commercial support, and it's licensed the same way those other alternatives you're suggesting.

Besides, dotnet core would not be a better replacement: it's got a large corporation behind too, so nothing prevents them to do the same in the future.

I think you're out of luck. I once accidentally scratched a CD and ten years later it only got worse.

For me, it's even crazier to rely on a third party provider to be able to do my work. I wouldn't be comfortable at all knowing that my development infrastructure is beyond my control.

We all ditched the Unix model of a central server with dumb terminals around because Microsoft told us the future was everybody having a full OS in their workstation. Now they tell us the future is going back 30 years, and having all of our data and programs in somebody else's machines (theirs).

Sometimes I can't understand people.

Well, at least this new IE is open-source, cross-platform, and way better than that browser which reached a 90% usage peak some time ago.

Joking aside, I've never really known the difference between Google Talk, Hangouts, etc, but I regularly chat with my contacts from the Gmail website, using Firefox, without any problem so far.

They are so different, that even thought they keep the same practices and goals from always, some people say they're a different company now!

I'm glad you have been so excited during this process, however mine dropped to zero just yesterday. Fortunately, in contrary to most markets dominated by your current owner, this is not a monopoly and we've got plenty of alternatives.

Well, for me this new Microsoft is even worse than Ballmer's Microsoft. Because their strategy and goals are the same, but they changed their PR to make people think otherwise.

Sure, with "better" I was talking only about the features. I still prefer the AVRs for the ease of use, but they were as easy to use as today when the price was half it is now :)

> I agree, but I would say that for personal projects, I find the difference in price quite irrelevant

Yes, of course, but it just doesn't look good when the price almost doubled in twelve months, specially when you have better and more powerful micros like the STM32 for less money.

I used to do -and still do- a lot of work with AVRs for hobby projects. I find them an awesome piece of technology, allowing you to start working on something with only a breadboard and a couple of wires, in contrast with ARM based ucs where the basic setup is not simple at all.

However, in the last years, following the Atmel acquisition by Microchip, the price rise on suppliers like Mouser started to make them look unattractive. But I still prefer the 8 bits ;-)

You can (try) to restrict your browsing to HTTPS sites only.

But it's very difficult to ensure that all the communications your device is making (background services, vendor apps...) go through that channel.

Not a "language" enhancement per se, but I find Collection Factory Methods a nice improvement.

https://www.sitepoint.com/ultimate-guide-to-java-9/#collecti...

Well, actually Java EE is only a "spec", with no code. There's a reference implementation, though. Sometimes this RI is popular, sometimes it isn't.

Following your example: JPA (the spec) is implemented, among others, by Hibernate. And EclipseLink is the reference implementation for JPA.

> Sorry for the rant, and it's off topic

No, I always find it interesting to hear stories about people who worked for companies like Sun in the past.

Regards

No, you're wrong. You can compare Mono to GNU Classpath (1998) and the like. But OpenJDK was backed by Sun. They started releasing the source code in 2007. So it's 10 years ago.

You can read it all here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK