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Smalltalk is not statically typed, which I guess makes hotswapping a lot easier.

It's also a miniscule part of the market.

Java finally (pun intended) gets a similar feature in Java 7 later this year: try-with-resources:

http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/technotes/guides/language...

I know cross-platform solutions carry a lot of stigma, but MonoTouch is the most compelling solution I've seen to reuse code across iOS, Android and WP7.

Nice to see a company so transparent about situations which could easily have been hushed down.

This argument doesn't make sense to me. Better wellfare lowers the risk of working at a startup, which would make more people try it. I guess work regulations and employee rights are make things harder in Europe than in the US, though.

According to Inc., "Norway has more entrepreneurs per capita than the United States":

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say...

(Disclosure: I am indeed Norwegian.)

I think the more interesting question is how to create the next Google or Facebook outside the US.

In Soviet Russia, cell phone call you!

There are plenty of "distributed hash table" solutions for Java, some are at least as old as memcached.

It's true that large heaps (multiple GBs) can cause long GC pause times (which is one of the problems Azul tried to solve). This can be mitigated by simply running more cache servers with smaller heaps.

A more general way to do this is with M-. (Esc-.). This fetches the last argument from the previously entered command. Very handy when you need to apply multiple commands to a file or directory.

Repeat this key combo to fetch the last argument from further back in your command history.

I use this all the time (almost as much as tab completion).

Norwegian news site digi.no picked up this story and have a statement from Tandberg. Tandberg claims that their invention is different from what's in x264 and that they invented it before x264 the referred code.

Google translated link: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

Curious wording: "Can I sign up for the Suite if I don't already own a 37signals product? Currently the 37signals Suite is only available for people who already own Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, or Campfire accounts."

If you pay to use a webapp, do you "own" it? Maybe they're trying to make 37signals' "apps" seem more like App store apps.

It will quite possibly be bad news for Android vendors. But by Google's own admission, Android is not Java.

[Insert obligatory smiley: :-) ]

Seriously, Google is one of the big backers of Java and OpenJDK. By suing Google, Oracle risk losing contributors like Josh Bloch and Martin Buchholz. I mean, they've already skipped out on JavaOne.

In Norway, which has a similar arrangement, you can choose between

1) 46 weeks with 100% pay

or

2) 56 weeks with 80% pay

This is capped at ~ $70 K, but in practice many employers pay people on leave their normal salary (or 80% if you choose the longer leave period).

I always add the following keybindings in System preferences:

Cmd-<, Cmd->: switch windows Cmd-': zoom (the green 'maximize' button on windows)

I just use Spotlight for launching (Cmd-space).

Oh, and set caps lock as ctrl. MacOS supports this out of the box, unlike Windows.

No, OpenJDK license is GPL + classpath exception:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception

Ie. apps that only use the Java system libraries don't have to be GPL'ed, only modifications of the VM itself. Google didn't want to place this restriction on Android vendors.

While its's tempting to pick minor nits in this post, the only appropriate answer is this: So what?

For server-side web applications, VMs (and the JVM in particular) already won. Sorry. They've made industrial strength GC, JIT and multi-threading features for the mass market.

As for phones, I really doubt whether Android's use of a VM will have anything to do with its success. There are many factors which will be much more important, like fragmentation.

Come on, have a sense of humour.

What's great about JavaZone is they can actually be different from your run-of-the-mill vendor conference.

Oh, and there actually are some women in there too.

Java 5? Heh. Try all the apps still on 1.3 and 1.4.

Yeah, it's the first time I've seen Charles rival Yegge's verbosiveness. Good points!

It's great to see this finally happen. Kudos to Azul!

Now let's hope the OpenJDK patches will be accepted and merged back upstream.