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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by venomsnake on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @03:14PM (#5068790)
Why no one asks questions that show deep understanding of the work and not technical details that can be googled in a second.

Like - can you land Curiosity with off the shelf java and JVM? Why or why not?

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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by chrisbennet on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @04:17PM (#5069089)
"Land it? Yes. Successfully? Not so much..."
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by err on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @09:00PM (#5070478)
Welcome aboard!
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by amalcon on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @05:13PM (#5069368)
Hah, now you've got me thinking about how one might technically satisfy that requirement. None of the possibilities I've come up with are good ideas.
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by koide on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @06:47PM (#5069860)
You will very likely need real time guarantees the JVM does not provide. (The "off the shelf" bit's a hint)
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by amalcon on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @08:35PM (#5070370)
Absolutely correct. I was thinking of things along the lines of "use JDK 1.2, which still lets you turn off the garbage collector, and then spend 100% of your time after startup in a JNI module." That's the least scary version.
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by dllthomas on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @08:52PM (#5070433)
What about "Use java code to output C code; compile C code; run C code."?
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by doktrin on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @10:24PM (#5070760)
From an interviewer's perspective, that answer wouldn't really help me gauge your familiarity and depth of understanding with regards to the JVM (which is, presumably, something I'd be very interested in knowing).
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Re:What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? by dllthomas on Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:52AM (#5073264)
That's a good point.
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