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Java will be the New COBOL
We can continue to debate this, but Java will be the new COBOL.The “Java is the new COBOL” debate has been going on for about 10 years now. And it’s not just theoretical. There are companies catering to what they sense is a shifting mindset in the enterprise programming world – a mindset that starts with a premise many of us would probably find unfamiliar: its time to switch from COBOL to Java.
If you want to know what I’m talking about, do a Google search for “Java for COBOL programmers”. You’ll find lot’s of resources for the COBOL programmer to learn Java. That highlights two things: 1) there are still quite a few COBOL programmers out there (stunning, right?), and 2) there is interest in moving them to Java, a language many of the cool kids now find passé.
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A cooling IPv4 Transfer Market
RIPE Labs on their view of the IPv4 transfer market:
In the second half of 2015 and the first half of 2016, both the number of transfers and the size of the transfers conducted under RIPE Policy started to show a downward trend. This is more likely a sign of fewer available addresses rather than decreasing demand for IPv4 addresses. Also, we have to stress that statistics for IPv4 transfers within the RIPE NCC service region only concern address space with the status Allocated PA or Assigned PI. Because legacy space is not subject to the RIPE transfer policies, the RIPE NCC cannot track or publish transfers in this area. Inter-RIR transfers are still too small in number to see any trend. In terms of the number of transferred IPv4 addresses, statistics are dominated by a single transaction, eight /14s transferred from ARIN to the RIPE NCC in December 2015.
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Linus Torvalds at TED
If you have not seen the interview of Linus Torvalds at TED from February, I highly recommend it. He’s changed the face of modern computing twice. His code runs in billions of devices (you might be reading this on one right now), and millions of software developers around the world manage their code thanks to his creation of Git. And yet, he’s a humble, gracious and down-to-earth man.
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Poll: What's the First Thing You Look for in an Editor?
What's the first thing you look for in an editor? There is an obvious right answer.
— Andy Newton (@MoreThanABitOff) May 15, 2016
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Not Just an Annoying Voice but also a Bad Taste in Men
This fracas resurfaced in 2014 when Ayyadurai married Fran Drescher.
from an article at Ars Technica about Shiva Ayyadurai suing Gawker Media for libel.
Gawker’s Gizmodo published several articles (1) (2) on Shiva Ayyadurai and the result:
Months after these articles appeared, Boston Magazine reported that as a result, Ayyadurai’s “speaking engagements have been canceled, the funding for his e-mail lab has evaporated, and his contract to lecture in MIT’s bioengineering department has been revoked.”
And here’s the chortle factor:
Harder further argues that Tomlinson’s work (his RFC #561 describes “network mail” in 1971) is too ancient to be considered proper e-mail.
Reality is HARD!
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My Guest Post on APNICs Blog
What does Port 43 WHOIS protocol have to do with an 8 track tape? Answers herehttps://t.co/h0bgJIEwpM pic.twitter.com/Yrh716I2bt
— APNIC (@apnic) May 12, 2016
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.CZ Is First RDAP TLD (UPDATE)
I just noticed that IANA has updated their bootstrap files, and NIC.CZ, the Czech TLD, is in there.
UPDATE : Because the RDAP IANA files have been updated soooooooo infrequently, it has gone unnoticed that NicInfo was not bootstrapping properly. That has now been fixed in 1.1.1.
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Big Changes for JCR in the Works
We published JCR -06 back in March and since we’ve received a lot of feedback. And that feedback has resulted in some fairly significant, and unfortunately backwards incompatible, syntax changes – all for the better.
The big thing to take away from these changes is that valid JSON is now valid JCR. To some extent this was true with -06, but things like this were not:
[ "a", [ 1, 2, 3 ], "b" ]
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XML is Hard!
This thread on the REGOPS mailing list just makes me sad.
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