the corner office : tech blog

Avira antivirus is heavily borked, causing "insufficient resources" errors and crashing the machine: SEVERE Issue with Avira Personal Free SP1. Reported a couple of weeks ago and still no fix.

(Update: fixed? more)

Bah. Predict the range of pctOver:

double pctOver = cnt / rkList.size();

You can't do it until you know what type cnt is, and the answer is very different if cnt is an int.

Now predict the range of pctOver:

double pctOver = (double) cnt / rkList.size();

*sigh*

I recently read an article mentioning that Jython had languished because its creator Jim Hugunin had left the project to work on IronPython at Microsoft. He's now left the IronPython project (via) and off to Google, leaving the soon-to-be-classic quote:

making that happen at Microsoft always felt like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole - which can be done but only at major cost to both the peg and the hole

His bullishness about Java is at odds with general sentiment, but it's worth being reminded that places like Google also have an interest in Java (in some form or another).

Stephen Colebourne: Babylon 5 & the Great War of Java. A catalog of bad news and problems.

Java is not going away any time soon but if it ain't going somewhere the new blood and smart money will be following the languages and platforms that are.

James Gosling: Steve Jobs Comments on Apple's Java Discontinuation.

Rights or wrongs aside, nothing positive is happening in Java land right now.

• Rethinking JDK 7 - ie. farewell closures.

And on top of that, Eclipse still doesn't support JDK7 as far as I can tell.

• Marginal Revolution: A new paper in high frequency trading. Interesting comments.

• Benchmark start-up and system performance for .Net, Mono, Java, C++ and their respective UI

• Unofficial Ubuntu Wallpaper Archive

• Joshua Bloch: Google staying away from JavaOne