The Desktop Fishbowl
Charles blogs all the random nerd stuff he can find.
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Thursday, 7 February 2002 |
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Well, it's released: Java 1.4 overview from Sun. From the first paragraph of the article:
212, 504, 1781, 2130, and now 2738. These are the number of classes and interfaces in the standard edition of the Java™ platform, from versions 1.0 through 1.4.
That's too many. Stop now. It'd be really cool if 1.5 had 500 classes, and a bunch of optional modules. 3:59:09 PM 
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Don Box writes an emotive plea in favour of WSDL, from the point of view of a programmer in strongly typed languages trying to interface with weakly-typed scripts. [Scripting News]
As nifty as scripting languages are, I'm still of the opinion that strongly typed languages scale better (in terms of development, not runtime) than weakly typed languages. Sure, if your unit test coverage is heavy enough you can compensate, but why write extra tests just to cover something that your compiler can catch if you're using types?
I also liked the line: 1:02:14 PM
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I made a new category today for my meanderings with Radio Userland, to free up the site homepage for more general tech stuff. If you're only interested in my hacking on radio, subscribe to This RSS feed instead. 12:06:20 PM
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http://trustworthycomputing.com. Minimalist nerd humour. I like it. 11:47:52 AM
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In answer to the question "How stupid can people be?" we discover the answer. "Really fucking stupid." - They Want Their ID Chips Now (Wired News).
Now let's see. We have a chip that can hold "six lines of text" I assume that's a standard 80-column line - 6 * 80 = 480, which is close enough to 512 bytes to make it a reasonable guess. The chip has no processing capability, and the data on it can't be changed. That makes it about as useful for identification as having a henna tattoo that says "Hi, I'm Charles", and significantly less useful for medical purposes than the Medic Alert bracelet my friend from school used to wear because of his haemophilia.
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