@fcassia @gatchers That's an interesting idea, although I always felt that J2ME apps lacked integration with the phone, and other apps
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@gatchers Interesting, regarding the JVM for J2ME. Sounds about right, for some of the OMAPs in Nokia's Symbian handsets, too. :)
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@gatchers (Although it does also run on TV STBs, and dumbphones, of course)
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@gatchers Still amazed that they managed to shoehorn an implementation of Java onto such constrained devices. :)
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@gatchers Then again, these days, even smartcards have a ridiculous amount of processing power, for such small devices.
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@gatchers Heh, yeah. The days when every last memory cell, and transistor had to be accounted for, and 1MB of RAM/storage was "luxurious"...
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@gatchers But then, some people (like the professor who taught the AI module) are sufficiently skilled enough to make anything look "easy".
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@gatchers Then again, I think procedural, and logic programming needs a specific mindset that doesn't come naturally to everyone.
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@gatchers To be honest, they were interesting-but-arcane, and didn't seem evidently useful to me.
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@gatchers Thanks. Yeah, I think the weirdest language that I've brushed with, recently was Haskell, or ProLog, as part of an assignment...
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RT @devbisme: @vmlemon It was only a few years ago that they removed the US telephone tax that was used to pay for the Spanish-American war!
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@gatchers Yeah, I haven't worked with Java for eons, but I remember thinking of C# as "Ersatz Java", when I first encountered it, years ago
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@gatchers (Both in terms of cost-to-obtain, and usability, of course). :)
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@gatchers Not forgetting that "UNIX-like" OSes are more accessible to the layman than they used to be, decades ago.
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@gatchers True. Sure, it's harder if you actually want to make a career out of SWDev, but folks are spoilt for choice, in terms of tools.
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@gatchers Reminds me that I really need to sort out a VFS, and proper POSIX stdio implementation for that, at some stage.
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@gatchers I still need to get to grips with this newfangled "Gerrit" thing, for working with the Wireshark codebase at some time, too...
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@gatchers Still doesn't quite work, although I've gotten as far as being able to scan the PATA buses for drives.
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@gatchers I did start porting an ATA driver, FAT driver, liballoc, and parts of various BSD libcs to a microkernel (L4Ka::Pistachio), though
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@gatchers Interesting. I'll admit that I still haven't done anything with the RPi.
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@gatchers Then again, I haven't done any programming for a while, save for trying to write an OFX parser, of all things using Qt, recently.
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@gatchers So far, I've managed to hack up something consisting of a text box, and a button that beeps, and prints the contents of the box...
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@gatchers C++ is usually my "go-to" language for hobby stuff & I vaguely remember Java from university, so I figured it wouldn't be too hard
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@gatchers Decided to install it out of curiosity, and in order to see if I can learn C# in a reasonable timeframe. :)
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@gatchers Not too keen on the form designer, to be honest. Compared to Qt Creator's, it feels really clunky.
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@gatchers Yeah, it was automatically installed at the end, after waiting quarter of a century for the installer to spin its wheels ;)
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...and now the installer wants me to reboot the entire machine...
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Just finished the ridiculously-long Visual Studio 2013 installation. (Most of the time was spent on installing the 1st, and last package).
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@HSBC_UK_Help And likewise, could an Independent Scottish HSBC customer use a HSBC branch in England, or Wales?
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@HSBC_UK_Help Out of curiosity - If Scotland gains independence, would English/Welsh customers still be welcomed at Scottish HSBC branches?
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(I guess the bigger WTF? was having to rent a phone from AT&T, in order to obtain service, in the first place)
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Erm, US, even
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