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Actually California natives have one good thing going for them. Prop 13. So if you or your parents have lived in the house for 30+ years you're likely to pay $2K in property taxes on a $1M house (annually). The lack of middle-class job
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The JVM trades memory for all kinds of optimizations so it's less about raw performance and more about memory allocation tricks (and related FFI issues). This is where golang at the moment has an edge over it. Assuming you can tolerate
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by 62951413 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you. A JVM-based developer with no idea of Scala or at least Kotlin raises questions. But in the last year I have worked with at least one smart guy/productive developer who is not into either. So YMMV I
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by 62951413 4y ago
In hindsight, that's directionally correct even though it was not that obvious back then. Only freaks mentioned the nukes in the 90s for example. Now it's crystal clear that their stockpile alone should have justified much higher
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by 62951413 4y ago
I'm with you with a minor adjustment. I'd call it not "feature development" but software development and programming languages. Two majors points: * as a developer my free time should be spent on keeping up with my ecosy
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by 62951413 4y ago
It's not unusual for my 2-year old Elantra on my 48-mile commute to San Jose down 680 to reach 50 MPG. 47 for going back. I do drive earlier/later in the day to avoid the rush hour.
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by 62951413 4y ago
Telescopes evoke phallic associations and so promote the male dominance. The world demands female-friendly optics. #defundastronomy #cancelgalileo
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by 62951413 4y ago
Shouldn't the government do more to promote equality? The current approach makes possible to arbitrage at scale when the government can * bring in a large number of already educated (for free or _much_ cheaper) foreigners * often from
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by 62951413 4y ago
Chances are he simply meant a 3-bedroom in a good Bay Area zip code. And I would agree with him in a heartbeat.
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by 62951413 4y ago
Re: no replacement methodology The way I remember the RUPs and FDDs of the world they actually addressed technical questions developers cared about. Starting from XP they have all been about managerial concerns. I'm not aware of a cons
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My favorite example would be big datish startups too. The likes of Imply, Dremio, Starburst who develop in a not-too-low-level language from an average developer's PoV. But they are obvious to anyone familiar with the domain. It used t
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by 62951413 4y ago
I cannot help thinking that golang's error handling is isomorphic to * returning an error code from functions in C and all the time writing "err = f(); if (err != 0) .." * returning a potentially null reference from a method
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by 62951413 4y ago
I believe idioms for dealing with golang channels resemble NIO channels/selectors (e.g. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/channels/... ). JDK1.4 was already widely use
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Idiocracy was a documentary
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by 62951413 4y ago
That's basically my Akka (akka-streams/Alpakka specifically) experience. When it works it's great and terse. If it occasionally hangs in the middle of things good luck finding that one timeout parameter you need to adjust. Al
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by 62951413 4y ago
The good news is that this list very closely describes the job market. Even better news is that at least Python and golang are trivial for experienced people because they are just a subset of a Java/C++-like big boy language. From what
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by 62951413 4y ago
For those in the East Bay, https://www.eastbayhillsproject.org/ is such a mesmerizing place to read about the old times. And see the pictures of the places you know which looked so different just a couple generations ago. E
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by 62951413 4y ago
On the flip side, if only had the teenage me had a computer at home my last year in school. Or more than a single book on Turbo Pascal (with OO support in v5.5!) I was reading again and again. Forget about the Internet, had the college-age
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by 62951413 4y ago
Maven is declarative. Once you know how to build and deploy one repository you can do it in any other. Including projects started a decade ago. Five commands is all you need to use it. It's trivial to have a monorepo with the classical
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They are slowly catching up with Putin's Russia. He started jailing dissidents years ago on this exact pretext. His government pioneered the corresponding legalese (known as rule 282) as early as 2002. And of course initially it was ap
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I believe it's unfortunate people judge the JVM ecosystem by Java. Scala and Kotlin are so much more attractive options if you write code for a living. Between this and the devolution from maven to gradle it's not a surprise junio
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Citi has done a terrible thing to their offering. Years ago, you could set the total value and its expiration date for a virtual card number. Nowadays you can set only the _daily_ maximum. Which makes them useless.
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by 62951413 4y ago
https://blog.jooq.org/a-beginners-guide-to-the-true-order-of...
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At first glance I don't see anything done about migrating the standard library to use generics. Is there any roadmap? I remember a cascade of related improvements when Java introduced generics.
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I have always thought that Robert Sedgewick's books are better in this respect ( https://sedgewick.io/books/algorithms/ ). And for interview preparation too.
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The latest LTS version is JDK17 (e.g. records and switch expressions) and has been for long enough to be production ready. I reckon half of the people on this forum didn't even work in software when JDK8 was released. Yes, Kotlin/
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* I find it hard to believe anyone with experience on the JVM would choose Java over Scala or Kotlin. The latter actually addresses most of your concerns. The existence of Lombok is a strong argument in favor of a more modern language. * I&
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by 62951413 4y ago
A dozen years ago when people started using them I thought those were rather odd fellows. Fast forward to the point where after 20+ years of coding lower back pain is quite common unless I work at a standing desk a lot.
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Re: response for a tactical nuke detonation https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/207353...
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Wouldn't that be a rather unique human trait not following the normal probability distribution?

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