roywasse @roywasse@qoto.org

We all know that the Big Apple is New York, but I have no idea where the Minneapolis.

This is my book about Quantum Computing for developers: https://www.manning.com/books/quantum-computing-in-action
The samples, and the QC simulator are written in Java, and hopefully readable to all programmers.

The #1 question I get is: "Why did you do this in Java?" With Java being very mature, secure, reliabled, with 12 million Java devs around, and a huge active ecosystem, I'd rather ask: "Why not?"
Java is really great for scientific work.

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"It's a feature, not a bug" is so last century. Now we call them "hallucinations."

When you hire #Java devs, how do you know if their skills are up to the task? Maybe we need a community-validated mechanism, based on testing actual coding skills (rather than multiple choice tests). @roywass #OpenValue has answers and you can join in on Foojay Today!

https://foojay.io/today/foojay-developer-certification-measure-skills/

#foojaytip #certification

Well.. I guess it's settled then? 😲

JEP 445: 'Evolve the Java language so that students can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs.'

https://openjdk.org/jeps/445

#Java #JEP

It took the #openjdk team more than one year, but finally they agreed to merge my latest NIO performance optimization: Data transfers FROM files to non-files (like Sockets) (aka File Servers, classic Web Servers) are now several times faster and more efficient wrt power consumption and CO2 exhaust. ♻️☕ (I already optimized transfers TO files, i. e. file-TO-file and socket-TO-file already years ago). Yes, it will be part of JDK21! 🤩 And yes: Video is under construction! 📹 https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/6711

🚨Time Sensitive🚨

DevNexus, the “longest running/largest #Java conference in North America” organized by the Atlanta #JUG and Dev community is in 7 weeks.

Use the special 25% off “ILOVEJAVA” discount code to register.

Follow me for daily updates on why to attend!

https://devnexus.com/

Call for Discussion: New Project: Galahad

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/discuss/2022-December/006164.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/discuss/2022-December/006164.html

#java #programming

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Looks like a very healthy #java community is springing up on Mastodon! Here's Duke with their new buddy...

@nipafx @stuartmarks @bondolo

Your annual energy bill:

April 2021: £1,138
April 2022: £1,971
*April 2023: £4,000

UK Energy corp annual profits:

April 2020/1: $1 billion
April 2021/2: $39 billion
April 2022/3: $74 billion

We must renationalise energy now.