Couldn't agree more...

Originally shared by Brad Templeton

When I saw the news about Steve Jobs it was a shock. But the news that Dennis Ritchie has died was much more like a blow. I didn't know him super well, we attended Usenix together for many years, but he was mostly a quiet man, not the sort to seek the limelight.

Dennis was instrumental in two things -- the C language and Unix -- which are the foundation of almost all the computing in the world today. Certainly much of C came from its predecessors like B and BCPL, and many things in Unix from its predecessors like Multics, but these two focal points were where all of 60s and early 70s computer science came together, and spread out. Of course Linux and MacOS and Android are very direct descendants of Unix, but even Windows is filled with ideas from Unix.

Far more than Steve Jobs, pretty much all your computing is based on Dennis' work. Last week Google noted Jobs at the bottom of the home page, a very rare honour. But Dennis Ritchie would be even more deserving of it.

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This one is for the Java programmers out there.

Originally shared by Kevin Bourrillion

At long last... Guava 10.0 has been released!

It's been a long wait since 9 (almost six months!), but I think you won't be disappointed; there's tons of new stuff in here. CacheBuilder/Cache, EventBus, Range and ContiguousSet, Optional, UnsignedLongs, MapJoiner and MapSplitter, the completion of Equivalence, many more new classes, dozens of new methods, and hundreds of smaller improvements scattered all over.

If this comes as good news to you, please join me in thanking the team:Charles Fry (release-master this time, took MANY bullets for us), Chris Povirk Kurt Alfred Kluever and our summer Deranged Intern Louis Wasserman. And as always, the number of other Googlers (and one non-Googler!) who contributed is too many to even list.

Please upgrade, and please help us spread the word!

Now back to work on 11.0 I go. :-)

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