[The Java Posse] An open letter to women Java Posse listeners (and their coworkers) ...

2009-02-21 Thread Jason Waring
Ahh .. the subject change on me! I give up! On Feb 21, 12:13 pm, Jason Waring wrote: > Fair enough. Perhaps I should rephrase myself. I meant that to say > that *I* felt it was hijacked. > I came back to the list and couldn't find the topic. The name had > changed. > &

[The Java Posse] Re: Computers for toddlers

2009-02-20 Thread Jason Waring
meant to provide a > cleaner separation of the different branches. If that annoys people here I'll > stop. Maybe it's too Usenet for Web 2.0 :-) Somehow people seem to be used to > a flat world view nowadays, which I believe is sad but I'm willing to accept > that. Pete

[The Java Posse] Re: An open letter to women Java Posse listeners (and their coworkers) ...

2009-02-20 Thread Jason Waring
Throughout my 20 something year career as a software developer, women have always been in the minority. However, my first year at Uni was in Health Science. In my Human Biology lectures there were 500 students only 7 of which were male! Gender imbalance within work disciplines is as much a refle

[The Java Posse] Re: Computers for toddlers

2009-02-20 Thread Jason Waring
Peter, why did you change the subject of this discussion? Dianne has raised an important issue, and we should respect her right to not have it be hijacked! On Feb 20, 6:25 pm, Peter Becker wrote: > [was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: An open letter to women Java Posse > listeners (and their coworkers)

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 1.1 is released

2009-02-15 Thread Jason Waring
Well I for one am tickled pink with the Posse's interviewing style. It's non-confrontational, respectful, light-hearted, and usually the questions are spot on. Bouquets not Brick Batts from me. On Feb 15, 3:39 pm, Dick Wall wrote: > Hi Paul > > There was no taboo subject surrounding the Linux ve

[The Java Posse] Re: #229: The Pair class

2009-02-08 Thread Jason Waring
Hi Mark, Smells similar to how Matlab passes multiple return arguments. The [] give the feeling that it is an array, which I like, but I'm not too keen on accessing the elements by index. Following is an alternate suggestion for how to use the return arguments: [Integer foo, String bar] = d

[The Java Posse] Re: why doesn't java allocate memory as needed (max heap size)

2008-12-31 Thread Jason Waring
Hi, If I remember rightly, the max heap size was 16Mb during the 1.0.x days of Java. The rationale I heard/read was to set a low base memory, so application would be designed to run on most 'modern' computers. Of course, back then, there was a lot of discussion about using Java for Applet and emb