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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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