Archive 26. January 2010

Carl Bildt: Tear Down Digital Walls - the fact that Sweden is often cited as a model in Germany for successful internet filtering and the fact that the US is exerting massive pressure to make online gambling inaccessible to Americans, well, let's just leave that aside for now. It's much easier to talk about authoritarian governments and sweep one's own internet censorship efforts under the rug. Therefore, the German government with its current censorship affinity will probably not feel addressed either.

fastutil - sometimes certainly quite practical, Collections for Java that are based on primitive types and implement these Collections in a space- and performance-efficient manner. So for example something like an array of bytes. Or a map of strings to booleans. The library has over 1000 such combinations ready ...

Have you seen the old men | Spreeblick - Worth reading on how our society and politics deal with poverty.