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Twitter's Alex Payne: Why Scala?
- icey 17y agoHas anyone watched it long enough to tell if it's worth an hour of watching? (al3x you don't get to vote) [Edit: Okay, it's a pretty straightforward introduction to Scala, along with some anecdotes about how they landed there. It's good, depending on your Scala knowledge level - it may be a bit slow if you've done much Scala reading.]
- tsuraan 17y agoDoes anybody have any idea why sites like this one and youtube don't make the video stream available as a .avi, .mpeg, or something else that's actually usable? It seems really strange to wrap something as simple as video in a closed wrapper like that, especially when the site hosting the content doesn't appear to have any concern about the copyright status of the video. I can understand it for hulu, comedycentral, etc, but why youtube and viddler?
- briansmith 17y agoTurn off Adblock and you will see why.
- cema 17y agoRealPlayer Download add-on for Firefox helps.
- sketerpot 17y agoFor those of us who don't want to use RealPlayer, I've found that DownloadHelper does a fine job of downloading flash videos. It supports most of the video sites out there, and has a bunch of features in case you need them. http://www.downloadhelper.net/ http://www.downloadhelper.net/ Again, a Firefox add-on.
- cema 17y agoI use both, and you are right: some may prefer one or the other.
- thomasswift 17y agoI think you can download them, you just need to login.
- wheels 17y agoYou can add "pwn" to any you tube video to get a download link, e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=foobar http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=foobar Google Video also often offers download links.
- tsuraan 17y agoOk, that's really cool. I'll give that a try next time somebody sends me a youtube link. Thanks!
- blahedo 17y agoSpeaking as someone who's been meaning to read up on Scala for a while, I found it worthwhile (though I could have read a transcript faster...) Here's the breakdown for those who might want to skip around: 0m-15m Introduction and Twitter's language desiderata; 15m-26m Scala features (high-level descriptions); 26m30-33m Actual code examples; 33m-44m Links: first books and blogs, with a rundown of which ones are most useful to different constituencies, then tools and libraries, again with descriptions of who might use them; 44m-48m Problems and weaknesses; 48m-end Q&A. I would say that the segment from 15m-33m or so and 44m-48m are most useful for someone trying to answer the question "should I spend time to go learn Scala?" and 33m-44m are more useful for people who have already decided to learn it and are now looking for pointers on where to start.