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Kent Sharkey wrote: The pricing is based on total employee counts, not the number of employees using Java.
  Are they nuts?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If 'nuts' is code for 'greedy,' yes - yes they are.
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Why can't they tell in a more straightforward way that they really want to ditch Java?
I guess that I know the answer: They want to make a load of money on that ditching. "You drop Java now! If you don't, we'll let you pay blood money for it!"
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I'm not sure they've entirely thought this through. This seems to be a plan to maximize the amount of money they suck out of companies that are migrating away from Java (or at least Whorcle's JVM); but by making the first application a company might want to run using it obscenely expensive they're making it highly unlikely that any additional companies will take their platform.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I thought Java was a country or a coffee. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
We dumped Java two years ago and haven't looked back.
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Users of OpenJDK builds from Oracle and users of free Oracle JDK builds are not impacted by the Java SE Universal Subscription.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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OpenAI LLC has reportedly hired about 1,000 contractors over the past six months to help hone its artificial intelligence models’ coding capabilities. How many programmers does it take to fix the code it generates?
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As long as they don't hire ex-Windows updates programmers...  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It’s time to add another family of emulated older technology to the Internet Archive. 5318008 0.7734
Apologies, the local 13 year-old posted that one.
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I learned the joys of tight coding (and precursor to assembly language) on the HP-25 and HP-41 calculators. Ah, those were the early teenage years! I still have the HP-25 programming book sitting on my shelf within hands reach.
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I had (and still have in storage) the HP-41CX. A little too young for the 25. I still think of the 41 as a thing of beauty.
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The other day I came across my old copy of "Synthetic programming of the 41CX" in my basement. I was tempted to pick it up for studying it, but one small problem is that the 41CX uses a battery size that you won't find in very many stores today; I have to mail order them. I am not sure if I ever owned a net adapter for it; if I did, I certainly cannot tell where it is today. Knowing that the calculator, the ordinary handbook and the synthetic programming booklet is still there provides enough satisfaction at the moment.
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Learned programming on a TI-59. Then I went on and created a full complex number calculator on my HP-41CV (yes it took that much memory).
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We at JetBrains run the Developer Ecosystem Survey yearly to capture the zeitgeist of the development world. You are here: 2022 edition
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Microsoft says this week's five-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was caused by a router IP address change that led to packet forwarding issues between all other routers in its Wide Area Network (WAN). Which explains why it took five hours to change the setting back?
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Yeah - they had to drive to a remote location, or at least that's what the tech claimed. 
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Almost everyone wants AI to automate mundane tasks. Everyone wants a big red button to do their job (until it does their job)
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I suspect the survey mainly went out to people who would be satisfied with this simple AI:
while (goldenParachute < wayToEffinMuch) ++goldenParachute;
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Today: I want more AI
Next year: Stupid AI just got me laid off
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That's one of the pitfalls of asking for Artificial Intelligence when you, yourself, are only artificially intelligent. 
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There are plenty of reasons you might find yourself in a big unfamiliar codebase "There was so much to grok, so little to grok from."
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Valentine Michael Smith might have something to say about this.
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Am I living life wrong way? I cannot think of one situation where I would need my oven to be remotely operated or connected to internet.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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