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It feels very lightweight, sort of like an analog to what Javascript is in a browser.

Scribd is not designed to be a simple, lightweight way to host a PDF file. Yes, this was the original idea of Scribd 8 years ago, but we've long since left that path.

This was amplified by the lower gravity which meant holding on to lightweight gasses was even harder. Over time, Mars cooled to the point where the major forms of tectonics ceased.

, it's still the best music player available: lightweight, fast, responsive, and kept simple. I had hopes for the Windows 7 Media Player.

It felt very lightweight. I wonder if the other JVM languages have similar debugging facilities.

That's the mantra of post-Clinton liberals: "we'll have regulations, but lightweight ones." Title II is an FDR-era piece of legislation that is anything but lightweight.

It's like having dozens of lightweight flexible high resolution 13" displays. Marking up a piece of paper with post it notes, pencil marks, and highlighter is a tactile experience that even the best styluses simply can't match.

You can build these people a lightweight, efficient car that they can afford and that they'll be happy to drive. Tesla are amongst the many upstarts who are doing it The Wrong Way. They're trying to skip the necessary evolutionary steps a customer needs to make before they will be happy with a battery electric car.

Everything about the language and runtime is tailored to that environment--supervisor trees, mnesia, good scheduling of hundreds of thousands of lightweight processes. Haskell is great at correctness.

Modern bicycles are lightweight, efficient and have excellent ride quality and braking. Short-range urban transport is a solved problem in all but marketing - Americans remain inexplicably certain that cycling is not for them.

As such, I love nginx and I would recommend it to anybody asking me what lightweight web server to use. Note though that the performance improvements I listed above are not as such specific to nginx: You could probably achieve the same result with any other web server that isn't also your application server.

The subset of people who want to really tinker inside their machines is vastly outweighed by people who want a very lightweight machine, so offering the "lightweight" option is a no-brainer. The lack of a upgradable machines as an option is presumably beause they've done the maths and realised that the number of people who choose that won't warrant the costs of maintaining the product line; viz.

This is more along the lines of you inventing and patenting carbon fiber, then winning an injunction against someone who built a frame made of spider silk and titanium on the grounds that you are the sole inventor of "lightweight, rigid bicycle frames". When you go to court with patents like the 4 Apple is leaning on, the perception of playing dirty because you're losing "fairly" is logical, and probably reasonably apt.

Then get rid of Java collections - replace with GWT lightweight collections. Then check some corner cases. Then compile to JS & optimize & you are done. The same shit now works on the web, & if its buggy you just debug your desktop app because they are essentially using the same logic. This is just how it is done in large financial shops. You are simply not going to hire JS folk & teach them financial algos & then get them to code those up in idiomatic jquery... takes too long. Just train the existing Java folk who already have the domain expertise to move from fullblown Java + swing to lightweight collections + GWT. It doesn't have to be pretty.