Robert Konigsberg

My Santa Monica colleagues and a local piece on Picasa Web Facial Recognition - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet

Hartmut Neven. FTW! ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos/m... - Mustafa K. Isik

I stopped after she said "foundationly". - Robert Konigsberg

So I looked at their website: http://www.republicansagainst8... and found an interesting FAQ - Robert Konigsberg

Q: How is Proposition 8 bad for business? A: Passing a law that says that some Californians may have their fundamental constitutional freedoms taken away will have a chilling effect on recruiting the most qualified, highly skilled workers to California’s high-tech, and creative industries. - Robert Konigsberg

That's it. He's not invited to dinner at my house, either. - Robert Konigsberg

"When on a hot summer’s day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet

Soda - Daniel Shaw

It's all always a coke. "I'd like a coke." "What kind?" "Dr Pepper." - Emotion Tad

For me, it's "Soda" which correlates with where I grew up. - Robert Konigsberg

I don't think GWT and GXP really cross paths in that way. What is your issue? - Robert Konigsberg

Thanks. GWT 1.5 is going on the todo list - Adewale Oshineye

Yeah, I see GWT and GXP as being a one-or-the-other choice since they can go together. But yeah, use GWT 1.5. - Robert Konigsberg

An interesting perspective but it's lacking something ineffable that prevents it from seeming practical - Adewale Oshineye

It seems like a document that claims to build a human by building the skeleton. How to become a programmer? Write lots of code. (Simplistic, I admit) - Robert Konigsberg

Yeah, I just did not get white spaces. This clears the matter up. - Robert Konigsberg

It sounds like nothing's being built for at least 4 years, but the Tappan Zee is, of all the New York City area bridges, the most delightful to cross. Partly because of the view, but also because of its flat style. I'd be disappointed if the new bridge lost its style (not to mention the name.) New York, get your advice from whomever it was that did the work on Grand Central Station. - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet

This makes me pretty happy. - Robert Konigsberg

" I think people really are missing the point about McCain's failure to look at Obama. McCain was afraid of Obama. It was really clear--look at how much McCain blinked in the first half hour. I study monkey behavior--low ranking monkeys don't look at high ranking monkeys. In a physical, instinctive sense, Obama owned McCain tonight and I think the instant polling reflects that. So McCain may have given away his status as a low-ranking monkey. I'd never even considered monkey rank." - Robert Konigsberg

LMAO! - April Buchheit

Ah. Tautology at its very best. - Ginger Makela

Holy cow. Damn. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

"Barack Obama has edited his official website on many issues, including a huge revision on the technology page. Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important as it was a few months ago, and the swaths of detail have been removed and replaced with fairly vague rhetoric. Many technologists were alarmed with the choice of Joe Biden before, and now it appears their fears might have been well founded." - Erica Baker via Bookmarklet

It almost seems like this is "move to the center"... I used to be a big fan of Obama but not anymore... - Bindu Reddy

Disappointing. - Robert Konigsberg

1.2B reads / sec from a hash map in a single JVM on a machine with several hundred CPUs. That aggregate throughput is probably a record for any hash table running anywhere on any hardware. - Sanjeev Singh

In case you want the slides, you can find them here http://developers.sun.com/lear... - Shakeel Mahate

I watched this talk when it was first released and by fall last year wondered why Cliff Click's data structure hadn't seen inclusion to the jdk or at least wider adoption. I asked jjb during one of our weekly concurrency meetings and learned that some unexpected problems had crept up in the meantime. - Mustafa K. Isik

I watched this talk twice by video and once live at JavaOne. I still didn't understand one component until speaking with Cliff at the conclusion of his live talk. I'm not surprised it's not yet part of the JDK; I suspect it requires a significant acceptance prior to its inclusion, given that it's so new. Of course, I don't claim to understand JCP, nor have I followed updates to this hash map since J1 '07. - Robert Konigsberg

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet

Seriously? Six months ago I thought he was dead. - Robert Konigsberg

Clever idea for making secret questions more powerful. - Robert Konigsberg

Good use of a Parameter type for what could have easily become an inheritance or decorator nightmare. - Robert Konigsberg

My second-favorite TotT. They managed to be funny and educational at the same time. - Robert Konigsberg

Eh. I'm glad he's speaking out but I doubt anyone has changed their mind based on this information. - Robert Konigsberg

Thanks for that; now I am reassured :) - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

Make sure to read the page's javascript: if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) { document.write("YUP."); } else { document.write("NOPE."); } - Robert Konigsberg

And... <!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund --> - Robert Konigsberg

Commercial from my childhood in New York. - Robert Konigsberg

The magic of looking at source code for perf reasons. - Mustafa K. Isik

The author claims he was being sneaky. I don't think he was sneaky. I think he was just uninformed about how subList works. Such seems to be the peril of interface implementations that obey the interface contract, but standard implementations behave in such a standard way that additional behavior is merely implied. Of course, I say this without reviewing the List interface contract. Probably the same thing that got the author in trouble. :) - Robert Konigsberg

" What Sarah Palin revealed is that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to become minimally conversant with the issues. Many people in our great land might have difficulty defining the "Bush Doctrine" exactly. But not to recognize the name, as obviously was the case for Palin, indicates not a failure of last-minute cramming but a lack of attention to any foreign-policy discussion whatsoever in the last seven years." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet

OMG WTF LOL not! I watched it again just to be sure I hadn't missed anything. Messy, disconnected scripting. One only mildly amusing line about monsters and a firewall ... who writes this stuff! - Kate Foy

if these ads are good, then the palin/mccain ticket will win - Gregory Lent

These ads are good. :) - torque

Let us know... - ⓞnor

I tried this about 15 months ago +-3. It took quite a bit to set up, but seemed to actually work as advertised. It felt a little klunky, so I'm not sure I'm sold that it's practical rather than more than a Frankenstein concoction. I think you _really_ have to love vi to dedicate to this idea. - Robert Konigsberg

There is a pun bucket on my desk. I expect a contribution when you get back ;-) - Allen Hutchison

Oh, I'm hurting a little inside. - Robert Konigsberg

Los Angeles-based Republican consultant Mike Murphy calls the choice of Sarah Palin "cynical" and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan says the neophyte's pick means the "race is over." They had finished speaking more carefully on MSNBC and didn't realize their microphones were still live. The audio is on YouTube; I found it via Top of the Ticket. Murphy has worked for McCain and Mitt Romney, among others. - Robert Konigsberg

The general experience I've had is the opposite, that it's much slower. My colleagues have the same opinion. - Robert Konigsberg