In "Is It Wrong Not to Help? Part I," from Psychology Today, Professor Peter Singer has this interesting chain of logic: First premise: Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad. Second premise: If it…
Day: July 9, 2014
Warning: anecdotal conclusions coming. I think the crucial flaw in every Java v. language is that they always focus on, you know, specific code. "Here's a fibonacci routine using recursion... in Java, it's X, and in C++, it's Y! Wow!" Every…
My wife and I homeschool, mostly because we have inquisitive kids who were told - and I quote - to "stop asking questions" in their public schools. That was the final straw for us, after noting that their behavior was…
Ah, TSS... so much potential, unused. I had big plans for TheServerSide. I'd like to let you in on some of them, because I don't have time to make them happen all by my lonesome, and I hate the idea…
As editor for TSS, I had a specific audience and specific goals in mind. The audience was the tech industry, primarily enterprise Java developers. The goals were to impart knowledge to the audience that otherwise might involve investments of time…
"It's a Miracle" is a creepy, scary, bitter, sad song in more ways than I think I can count. The last verse is a personal rant by Roger Waters on Andrew Lloyd Webber - and God forbid I ever feel…
True story: I paid $90 USD for a cup of water. This is the explanation, and if you were there, please forgive any lapses of memory, okay? The setting: TSSJS 2006. It was my first TSSJS, the first one where…
Okay, so apparently Hamas fired a Stinger at an Israeli Apache helicopter, unaware that their Stinger was prepped with a friendly-fire protection mechanism that refused to target the Apache. There's a perfect comment to the blog post: In this fallen…
I found a reference this morning on OSGi's "buddy classloading" in reference to Spring, OSGi, and GigaSpaces. In addition to being, like, informative (thanks, Steve), it also had a reference to something Steve called "non-docs": To press button B, click…
Terracotta DSO is a package for distributing references in a heap across virtual machines. (Thus: Java. I thought it included C#, but Geert Bevin reminded me that I'm an idiot.) That means that if you have a Map, for example,…