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James Gosling
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James Gosling's personal blog at nighthacks.com covers programming and history. Since 2010, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “James Gosling on radioactive cache RAM chips and the death of Sun (2010)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- James Gosling on radioactive cache RAM chips and the death of Sun (2010)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-06-30
- The shit finally hits the fan....(James Gosling on Oracle vs Google)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-08-13
- James Gosling : I've moved again3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-08-18
- On a New Road : James Gosling on Apple and Java3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-10-22
- James Gosling: My attitude on Oracle v Google2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-04-29
- James Gosling leaves Oracle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-10
- Phase relationships in the standardization process [1990]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-22
- James Gosling leaves Google for a very cool startup job2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-31
- James Gosling: Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-18
What Hacker News says?
> It has to exist on a private network behind a firewall with ports open to application servers and other es nodes only. Have you ever heard of the end-to-end principle, IPv6, or number 4 of the eight fallacies? http://nighthacks.com/jag/res/Fallacies.html
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on “Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak”Submitted James Gosling joining Google as a story · 223 points
HN discussionSun would have sued Google if they had the money for the lawyers[0]. Initially I was partnering with Google, but now I side with Oracle's decision, as it is now proven how Google just pulled a Microsoft and fragmented the Java eco-system. Now we are stuck with partial Java 7 assuming 4.4 devices, good luck using try-with resources in lower versions and no plan for future versions as of the Android Developers Firesid…
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on “Apple ResearchKit on GitHub”Submitted The shit finally hits the fan....(James Gosling on Oracle vs Google) as a story · 188 points
HN discussionExcept Sun never charged for handset/embedded deployments. They charged for access to the J2ME trademark. This case is neither about trademarks nor J2ME. That means they wouldn't have gotten any money from SavaJe like phones either. The only people who "torpedoed" Sun was Sun themselves. And yes, switching from an interoperabilty argument to 'they were morally obligated to buy Sun' is very much pivoting to a differe…
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on “Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle reaches Supreme Court”Submitted James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash. as a story · 164 points
HN discussionRadioactive RAM chips, costing Sun billions, played a part. "When Sun folks get together and bullshit about their theories of why Sun died, the one that comes up most often is another one of these supplier disasters. Towards the end of the DotCom bubble, we introduced the UltraSPARC-II. Total killer product for large datacenters. We sold lots. But then reports started coming in of odd failures." http://nighthacks.co…
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on “Smart Things Jeff Bezos Has Said”Submitted James Gosling leaves Oracle as a story · 146 points
HN discussionx87 trig functions can be very inaccurate due to the Intel's original sloppy implementation and subsequent compatibility requirements [1]. [1] http://nighthacks.com/jag/blog/134/index.html
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on “Implementing Cosine in C from Scratch (2020)”Submitted James Gosling: Quite the Firestorm as a story · 119 points
HN discussionGosling also wrote about being at the mercy of suppliers impacting SPARC and it probably contributed to the problems. http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/at_the_mercy_of_suppl...
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on “James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle”Submitted On a New Road : James Gosling on Apple and Java as a story · 101 points
HN discussionFirst it starts by Google playing cheap and doing a Microsoft move on Sun. Before I get the usual Sun CEO approved it reply: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/my_attitude_on_oracle... Second, at least on lambdas they could generate inner classes for older devices and update DEX format now that Dex is compiled AOT to native code. So only the compiler dex2aot would be required to be updated. Currently there is ze…
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on “Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths”Submitted James Gosling leaves Google for a very cool startup job as a story · 27 points
HN discussionNot having enough money to sue them, so the alternative was praise. From James Gosling himself, http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/my_attitude_on_oracle... > Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun.
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on “Rewriting a large production system in Go”Submitted James Gosling on radioactive cache RAM chips and the death of Sun (2010) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionOne year almost to the day since he quit Sun/Oracle (see http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/time_to_move_on ). That probably means he had a 1-year non-compete built into his employment agreement which he had to wait out (which makes me curious about what he could be working on at Google that could trigger that)
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on “James Gosling joining Google”Submitted James Gosling: Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead as a story · 8 points
HN discussionBuying AMD would have been great. There's always more to the (inside) story. Meaning I have no idea what's going, so should stay humble if I can't keep my mouth shut. James Gosling's shared one theory for the downfall of Sun: radioactive packaging of the hot new UltraSparc-II chips cost the company billions. http://nighthacks.com/jag/blog/336/index.html I so wish Sun had survived. Jini, JavaSpaces, JXTA, grid comput…
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on “Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO”Submitted Gosling's take on Oracle vs Google: would have preferred a different outcome as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's James Gosling's account of radioactive RAM chips used in the UltraSparc II... http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/at_the_mercy_of_suppl... When Sun folks get together and bullshit about their theories of why Sun died, the one that comes up most often is another one of these supplier disasters. Towards the end of the DotCom bubble, we introduced the UltraSPARC-II. Total killer product for large datacenters.…
Comment linking /roller/jag/entry/at_the_mercy_of_suppliers
on “Why use ECC?”Submitted Too Soon - James Gosling about Steve Jobs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOK, you're a happy Clojure user (I'm not familiar with Groovy and haven't heard of Solr). Clojure is very functional and I expect idiomatic memory usage patterns are different than those of Java and other imperative OO languages. Oracle's patent lawsuit against the Dalvik VM has cast a cloud on deep innovations in JVMs, such as GC implementations tuned for Clojure. Is there going to be a long term problem? Who knows…
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on “Java Trap, 2010 Edition”Submitted James Gosling : I've moved again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo it is that time of the year again for me to quote Gosling: "We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun." Source: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/my_attitude_on_oracle... But believe on whatever Google sells.
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on “Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says”Submitted James Gosling on JavaOne as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://liquidr.com/ http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/
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on “BlueRobotics – T100 Underwater Thruster”Submitted "In Sun's early history, we didn't think much of patents." as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSmarter people than me have commented on this before: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/Fallacies.html
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on “Clojure, Node.js and Concurrency Fail”Submitted At the mercy of suppliers as a story · 3 points
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