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Perhaps its a sign?

I believe a PC world got looted in Tottenham in the excitement recently, with computers being sold for £20 (or so I read on TSR).
Not surprised the Apple store got hit tbh. Bit like a jewelers shop.

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Tathrim

I literally facepalmed at John Humphreys this morning. so bloody aggressive for no good reason.

*yes, I AM a Radio 4 listener, it's the only thing worth listening to in the mornings. DEAL WITH IT!!! :biggrin:

Reply 9463

Chrosson

Original post by Tathrim

I'm not saying Java is a bad language to use, I'll be using Java in situations where Java is better suited to it in conjunction with Scala for the other bits. It's a supplement, not a replacement.

Doing some searching on performance vs Java, I cam accross this in a Stack Overflow thread:

Original thread is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5901452/scala-vs-java-performance-and-memory

What I drew from that is that, yes, it's slower, but in larger projects, there's also a tradeoff between the amount of code that needs to be written to get a decent answer, as indicated in the last paragraph.

Combined with the fact that there is some integration between the functional programming capabilities among other things means that I'm willing to give this a shot. :biggrin:

Lol, I was joking. I'm well aware of some of the shortcomings of Java.
Cheers for the link though, quite interesting. I suppose that's always the trade off - as you move up the abstraction tree things become easier to write but slower to run. Asm -> C -> Java all show this pattern and I suppose a language like Scala (and haskell...and I suppose pretty much anything supporting higher order functions natively) is the next step up the tree.

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Jake9

Don't worry it'll be mysteriously up and running again by opening time tomorow. :ninja:

Reply 9465

username612415

Original post by Jake9

Don't worry it'll be mysteriously up and running again by opening time tomorow. :ninja:

Which, the store or the phone?

Reply 9466

Dez

This looks really legit: http://london.craigslist.co.uk/mob/2536072357.html :rolleyes:

Reply 9467

secretmessages

^ Hahaha

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Virgin Media are down (again), I'm just going to blame it on the rioters even though it's not their fault :hand:

Reply 9468

Jake9

Was referring to the store, but nvm.

also

Liverpool Apple Store has taken all their products of the shelves:

http://gizmodo.com/5829203/liverpool-apple-store-takes-products-off-display

Reply 9469

alexsheppard11

My latest purchase:

Spoiler

Reply 9470

username612415

Original post by Jake9

Liverpool Apple Store has taken all their products of the shelves

Yeah pretty sure they're doing anywhere in the country that could potentially be at risk of rioting, they've definitely done it in Manchester and Birmingham.

Original post by alexsheppard11

My latest purchase:

Spoiler

Very nice, what model is that?