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Despite the efforts of Mark Reinhold and the Java team to involve the community in the roadmap after the Oracle acquisition (the Plan A / Plan B decision), many Java developers feel that Java 7 was "not much of a release". In this article, I'll try to refute this thesis, by exploring the features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8. Preview of coming attractions
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Ben Evans wrote:
Method Handles are simultaneously the most important new feature of Java 7, and the one which is least likely to feature in the day-to-day life of most Java developers.
A method handle is a typed reference to a method for execution. They can be thought of as "typesafe function pointers" (for developers familiar with C/C++) or as "Core Reflection reimagined for the modern Java developer".
Wait, so Java didn't have Delegates "type-safe function pointers" before v7? And yet people still try to claim that .NET is copying Java? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think things have definitely come full circle: Java really slowed down the "innovation", and .NET burst forth with so many shiny toys (dynamics, delegates, LINQ). Java is really trying to catch up now (and they're in the "dammit, we need a different name for their technology" phase).
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TTFN - Kent
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“Wet agile”, “the agile waterfall” and “the Agile-Waterfall Hybrid” … this controversial, mixed-method baby has as many names as formats. Some have received a lot of dedicated thought, are fit-for-purpose and manage to preserve the main benefits of the more pure methods. Irritates developers AND management! Perfect!
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You might wonder which professions have the greatest proportion of psychopaths. Well, according to one book, engineers are nowhere on the list. Until they become CEOs, that is. "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
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Or that's what they want you to think.....
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Skype's Desktop API will stop working this December and so will lots of add-ons "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
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Isn’t open source code just great? It gave us all of these Linux distros and great Linux apps, Apache, Python, and the list goes on. If you’re a coder, this movement is very easy to contribute to. But what if you don’t code and still want to pitch in and show your support? We’ve previously discussed eight ways to support open-source projects besides coding, and today I’d like to expand on the first: Donating real, hard-earned cash to support the developers you love, using the online service Gittip. "And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar, and say, 'Man, what are you doin' here?'"
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The old adage of "think before you speak" is never truer than when you're on a job interview. One unwitting slip-up could cost you your dream position, so it's crucial to know what kinds of questions and answers will set off a red flag for your interviewer. "So, when do I get your job?"
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interesting,thx
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Rockstar, a consortium that bought Nortel's warchest of patents during its bankruptcy acution, has launched a series a patent lawsuits against several mobile device manufacturers, including Samsung, HTC, and Google, the latter which Rockstar outbid for Nortel's patents. "How will we stop an army of the dead at our castle walls?"
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Bill Gates is once again speaking out against the internet-first approach many tech leaders have taken to philanthropy. "As a priority? It’s a joke," Gates tells the Financial Times, when asked about how Mark Zuckerberg's plan to bring the whole world online compared to malaria research. Knock, knock. Who's there? Internet access before malaria. No, it must be a different joke.
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So for profit corporations have different goals than philanthropic non profit organisations?
Oh Bill you are so wise! 
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Why not both? Why does everyone have to do the same thing?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere – updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non-Windows environments. Team Explorer Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug-in, a cross-platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom tools that access TFS. Check in ALL the things!
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Unlike other NoSQL data stores, Accumulo provides role-based access to data Use the same database they use to store information about you!
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Would you like to build rich, browser-based applications that make direct calls to AWS services without the need for any server-side code? Eliminate the middleman
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Google, Red Hat, Oracle and other technology companies are contributing dozens of computer engineers and programmers to help the Obama administration fix the U.S. health-insurance exchange website. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
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A leaner, meaner version of Android wants to bring Google's integrated search-and-control to the masses. "There's nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It's painless. It's good. Come. Sleep. Matthew."
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I get it. There seems to be something silly about asking everyone — from the homeless to really young kids — to learn to code. There are deeper things that need to be fixed in the “system” too. Preaching to the choir here, but it's nice to see the "cool kids" push coding
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Like a super strain of bacteria, the rootkit plaguing Dragos Ruiu is omnipotent. A scary story for your Halloween IT party
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A scary story for your Halloween IT party
Fiction.
arstechnica wrote: Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed.
Good build-up of tension, now on to the spoiler on how it does this to strike fear in the heart of the reader;
arstechnica wrote: <layer>has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps.
Yeah, and that other PC is continously sampling the sound-data to see if there's a "transmission". And regardless of the OS, the PC flawlessly decodes the isolated noise into executable code.
arstechnica wrote: <layer>"Nothing of what he describes is science fiction taken individually, but we have not seen it in the wild ever."
"Still, we need funding to hunt for that Yeti."
arstechnica wrote: <layer>It would not let us disable some things. Things kept getting fixed automatically as soon as we tried to break them. It was weird."
Sure, it was aware of your actions. 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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So long, Gmail, it was nice knowing you. After nearly a decade, I've finally moved my personal email away from Google's service. If you're considering doing the same, here's a step-by-step guide to help you set things up the right way. "There must be 50 ways to leave your lover"
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A new experiment buried deep underground has proven itself to be the most sensitive dark-matter detector ever built. But the first results from the high-tech instrument have turned up empty in its search for elusive dark matter, scientists announced today (Oct. 30). Maybe turn the light on?
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Much ado about nothing...
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