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by lagerstedt 5y ago
You are right in that desktop Java aldready was a mess when Oracle took over. And I agree that distribution was a hassle. At the time it was hard to create standalone .exe or .msi for distribution. Webstart broke so often it was impossible
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by lagerstedt 5y ago
Sourcesafe is a 90-era product. PDP-11 was discontinued long before Sourcesafe was even released. There were version control software around in the 70’s but I do not think that the adoption rate was very high. I think it’s reasonable to as
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
Flatrate models usually means that a large majority of users actually covers the costs for a the minority high consumers. It is true that the marginal cost for more transmitted data is almost zero, but the overhead costs of running (and exp
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
Why on earth would you buy a sedan if you need to haul stuff/dogs around?
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
It used to be that Swing/AWT really sucked. The default theme on every platform (Metal) was really ugly. Everything was purple. The "native" look and feel was emulated (poorly). It was also very slow. That's the reasons
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
I've worked professionally on a fairly large SWT-based project. This project was started when Swing was slow and ugly so SWT probably seemed fresh. Also, having a native L&F was important in those days. We had tons of problems and
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
The Wikipedia article seems to suggest that it's very popular in parts of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_process... Here in Sweden no one really buys UHT milk. I guess all stores carr
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
First of all, if a company fires someone because they are on parental leave, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Now how a company handles employees depends. In some cases you hire a temp, in others your colleagues covers your responsi
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by lagerstedt 6y ago
The fact that this can now be run in a browser on a laptop rather than a high end gaming rig is indeed amazing.
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by lagerstedt 7y ago
What you say is about deer hunting in Sweden is true. But only for Roe deer. They are quite small deers that you are allowed to hunt with shotguns and Class 2 rifles, meaning 800j at 100m. That's typically a .222 Remington. The legalit
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by lagerstedt 7y ago
Try using a text file and grep?
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by lagerstedt 8y ago
You are right, but for a while this was not true. When Apple switched to x86 the MacBook was competitively priced. I remember buying one because it was cheaper than comparable PCs.
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by lagerstedt 9y ago
The article does not answer the "why" at all. Just some theories that might or (maybe more likely) might not be the explanation
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Material Memory(material-memory.herokuapp.com)
5 points by lagerstedt 11y ago|0 comments
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Busting 100+ year legacy of those cursed spring lock washers with a 2 min. demo(youtube.com)
5 points by lagerstedt 11y ago|0 comments
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Petition: Stop bundling crapware with Java(change.org)
317 points by lagerstedt 14y ago|153 comments