BlarfWobble

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   by BlarfWobble 13y ago

   It wasn't a parable about older family members being clueless when it comes to tech. People really can't imagine how a "new computer system" can cost 3 years and $90m to build, and are genuinely outraged, because it is s
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   by BlarfWobble 13y ago

   The short answer is that it's not just a website. The website is just the front of a large, complex project that involves many other things. I have noticed how shocked people are when they hear how much custom software really costs. I
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   by BlarfWobble 13y ago

   I'm shocked that people seem to think 3 years and $634m is a lot for a project of this scale. Are you all offering to design and build it 6 months in PHP for $50k ?
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   by BlarfWobble 13y ago

   I didn't mention the word Oracle. Kaffe is still a JVM! It runs java applications unchanged. Dalvik is not. It can't run java classes compiled with a regular java compiler
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   by BlarfWobble 13y ago

   Android doesn't really count as java, as it doesn't use the JVM. But even if you do choose to count it, it's only a very small part of the java ecosystem. Applets are dead, and java desktop applications unpopular, but without