jaybill

The author of the article wrote it using words. He didn't make a video or draw a picture, because words were the best way for him to communicate with other humans. For some reason, he wants a different way to communicate with machines, one that is inherently not the way humans communicate with each other.

I also agree with what others have said, that this is nothing but a bitch fest with nothing actionable other than we ought to be creating visual programming tools no one wants or needs instead of doing actual work. Sure, buddy. I'll get right on that.

Thanks for posting this. I thought the linked article seemed to be making a lot of dubious assumptions, but didn't have the references handy.

And it STILL doesn't play DVDs without additional software! sigh

This is going to sound arrogant and troll-y, but I assure you it isn't.

I don't look. When I want a new job, I stop ignoring recruiters and wait to see what comes along. I've never waited more than a few days to have a pile of interesting opportunities. (I also end up with a much bigger pile of bullshit talent-trawls, but that's beside the point)

I wish I could say this was a function of my being awesome, but I think it has more to do with the job market in my area (PDX). There just aren't enough senior developers to go around.

That is quite a leap of logic based on a single correlation.

Precious $DIETY, take my $APPENDAGE. Please let the next version of OWA look like this.

Being Dutch is not an excuse for saying terrible things about who should and should not have children. People are suffering. Have some respect.

This isn't "running Java on iOS". This is cross-compiling Java to Objective C, the exact same way that other toolkits like MonoTouch, Titanium and RubyMotion do it.

The difference is important.

You can use this toolkit to target iOS from Java, but that doesn't mean that you get that language's infrastructure with it. I'd argue that's probably a good thing, but either way it's a far cry from "running Java on iOS".

This ought to be front and center on their site. What you wrote there turned a bunch of meaningless buzzwords into a useful product description. I'm now actually interested in the product. Well done!

I'm not sure why, but I find the term "for the masses" horribly insulting and elitist. It instantly turns me off on whatever it is you're talking about and tells me absolutely nothing about the product other than you think your target market is a mass of people that aren't as smart as you.

How is that a fallacy? I think the fact that private keys have been leaked in the past demonstrates that they will be leaked in the future.