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Time travel paradoxes are a very exciting phenomenon. Regardless of whether time traveling is possible or not, one can imagine time traveling and the paradoxes that occur inevitably. In order to have a base for future posts, I want to explain two kinds of time travel paradoxes I am distinguishing. Both of them can only appear in backwards time travels, i.e. when traveling back in time.

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There is currently a massive shift in operating system paradigm. One that Microsoft seems to have missed. I am not speaking about general purpose operating systems. I am speaking about operating systems that are designed for end users: users that want to use their computing device for surfing, messaging or consuming media. These users constitute the majority of computer users today.The operating

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I recently noticed that I am adoring rock stars of the computing industry just like other people are adoring pop stars in the music industry.I am frequently searching Google for news about them, try to read every publication of them, and can barely await the next post in their blog (if they have one). If I would meat meet one of them in real live, I would fall to their feet and beg for an

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Yes it's true! Java 7 will indeed have closures. I was enthusiastically following the Java closures war in 2007, and subsequently had lost hope that Java will ever have closures. But now it seems like the heads at SUN have changed their minds after all. This was announced by Mark Reinhold at devoxx.Let's hope they do it right. Which of the various closure proposals will be used? Apparently it

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By chance I recently came upon Memories of the Future, a book written by Wil Wheaton, actor of Wesley Crusher in the tv series Star Trek The Next Generation. I am happy not to have missed on this one before it is released in a week or so, which is why I am posting about it now, contributing to the publicity of the book (and because Wil ordered me to do so in his podcast).Wil releases podcasts

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There is a new list containing the top 100 blogs for development managers. No, my blog is not listed there ;-), though I am a happy reader of many of the top blogs. I don't know why the list is titled "for development managers", most of the blogs listed there should be interesting for any developer, like me.

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Joshua: I think also, computers aren't quite as sexy as they were when we were growing up, you know.James: No I mean, when I was growing up, computers were the definition of unsexy.Joshua: Oh I'm sorry, I mean to geeks like ourselves.Neal: Closures are sexy though.James: Yes so, we have photographic evidence of that one.Joshua Bloch, James Gosling and Neal Gafter at the Javapolis discussion panel

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Last week I have installed Windows Vista Business and Kubuntu Linux on the same notebook, which has 2GB memory and a dual core processor.Installing Windows Vista:Including the several obligatory reboots and the experience optimization phase, the installation took me several hours. Most of the time I was confronted with a black screen without any progress indication.Installing Kubuntu Linux:The

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Do you find yourself in the need of configuring your eclipse workbench layout on every new computer you are working on? I did. I am used to a personal workbench layout. Unfortunately eclipse (version 3.3) does not seem to provide means for exporting workbench layout or perspective settings and importing them on another machine (if you know a way I am not aware of, please let me know). Eclipse

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If you are into mobile device development and havn't heard about Android yet, you should go check it out now. In short, Android is Google's (and partners) new platform for mobile devices. It consists of a linux operating system and an SDK that sits on top of the Java programming language and a custom Java VM named DALVIK, which is specifically designed for embedded and mobile devices. I am

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The beginning is nowAlthough I have always wished to be one, I have never been the blogging type of guy. I am a little perfectionist and my thoughts about blogging always have been "If you start blogging, start at the beginning". This always kept me from blogging, as a third of my life (very optimistic estimation) has passed and there seems to be much to catch up.So why am I starting now? I must

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