smcj

Scala 2.9 was released as well as Akka 1.1 today.

The companies behind have been merged to a new company called Typesafe which offers Training, consulting, support and a tool stack containing Scala, Akka, Eclipse and SBT.

The persons behind it read like a who-is-who of the JVM world: http://typesafe.com/company/team

> Look carefully, there is no lack of VMs in OSS.

There is just a lack of good ones, though.

> Would you refer to someone like that as successful?

If that person does what it always wanted to do, this person is obviously successful.

Note to myself: The American definition of "success" is much more f*cked up than expected. No wonder that they have these problems recently...

The problem is that in the united states access to colleges and universities has shifted from those who are gifted to those who can pay it.

How long can a society afford it to let gifted people clean desks and wash cars instead of giving them the education they deserve to create benefits for the society?

Every educational system which expects people to pay tuitions gives a up long-term benefits for a short-term monetary gain.

Additionally it teaches young people that it is OK to have debts. It is not. Never. Don't buy what you can't pay.

When did apple start caring about security?