load01 09/10/2011

• Software’s Receding Hairline - raganwald's posterous

  The news is out that the Java Programming Language is going to have a clean, simple syntax for lambdas Real Soon Now. It seems that after two or three or maybe even five years of wrangling, the various committees have decided on a syntax, mostly.
  Obviously, I'm less than impressed. But let's cut the designers a little slack. There are factors I don't understand that go into a feature like this. It must be carefully considered not just for its functionality, but for the subtle way a revised compiler would interact with billions of lines of existing code. The new feature would interact with thousands of existing features in weird ways. Each and every one of those interactions needs to be carefully considered before adding a new feature. Under the circumstances, it's kind of amazing the feature go added at all.

  tags: programming

• Technolog - Can Windows 8 save the PC?

  Last weekend I accompanied my 20-something sister-in-law to a Best Buy to purchase an iPad 2. She previously considered buying a Windows laptop, but as it turns out Apple’s tablet does everything that she needs. And that’s a pretty scary thing for the PC industry. Cash-strapped consumers aren’t choosing tablets merely as complementary devices. Increasingly, it’s an either/or decision — and Windows is losing.

  tags: technology

• http://www.mishalov.com/911_ong.mp3

  tags: 9_11

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