BrandonM

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by BrandonM 12y ago
I believe Hacker News calls this a Minimum Viable Product.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Yes, that's a huge number. That's why I split it up the way I did ( https://github.com/mintern-java/functions#sensible-packaging ). If you don't care about `short`, that cuts out nearly 6,000 of the classe
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Our company has been slowly converting a medium-sized (~100K LOC) Java codebase to take advantage of some Java 8 features. One example is a utility method that accepts a String DB query and then executes a Consumer<ResultSet> for each
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with your first sentence, but I still find lambdas to be quite useful in spite of their limitations.
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Java Functions: Every Java FunctionalInterface You Want(github.com)
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by BrandonM 12y ago
It's not very productive to talk down to people, even if it's satisfying to you. There's a better way: http://xkcd.com/1053/
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Good IDE support is the difference between constantly hunting through (or thoroughly memorizing) documentation and having a program help you with it. It's also great for merging the edit and compile steps so that you can correct errors
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by BrandonM 12y ago
> I don't doubt that there are other abstractions than FP and OOP. But arithmetic looks like FP, to me. When aikah said "FP", I took that to mean something like using a higher-level "updateScore" function that
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by BrandonM 12y ago
That's not arithmetic, though. That's logic represented as a one-liner... Not the sort of change I'm talking about.
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> ...when you have emails or documentation to write... I totally agree. Every editor or typing speed article is accompanied by posters claiming that it's not important for programming, and I just have to think that they haven&#x27
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I disagree that FP and OOP are the only abstraction methods. Arithmetic can be an excellent abstraction method. For me, it's a code smell to have a function called "updateScore4". It's often possible to come up with an a
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by BrandonM 12y ago
If you've ever run Linux, it's not really naive at all. Almost any program you might want, free and easily installable.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
You're totally right (that's why I said "kneejerk"). Thanks for the advice.
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I'm sorry, Danilo. I did not realize that you personally felt marginalized. That certainly puts my comments, and your reaction to them, in a new light. My sincere apologies. The story I got from your public persona was that you came up
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by BrandonM 12y ago
> you're glad when people say bigoted things so that the folks most impacted by them have to donate time to educating them. What I actually said: > It gives others a chance to provide them with some perspective. When I said &qu
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by BrandonM 12y ago
That's definitely a good point. My comment was a kneejerk reaction to assertions like "Hacker News is a cesspool." I agree that we should address anything that makes people feel unwelcome or uncomfortable because of who they
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by BrandonM 12y ago
You know nothing about me except that I criticized your post for being misrepresentative. That's all. You have no idea what I do in my daily life to promote equality, what I do in my workplace to make it more welcoming for all, how
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I appreciate your level-headed response, metavida. I think you're taking the right approach in trying to quell hostility (rather than create it) and in providing links to follow up with. I am in full agreement that everyone should have
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Thanks a lot for the pointer! That's most of what we need.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
"Working for someone..."? Who are you referring to? The startup I work for is not a YC company. Our founder/CEO is not active on HN. One of his main hobbies is participating on an international coed Ultimate Frisbee team. I
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by BrandonM 12y ago
That's fair. The first two are pretty good suggestions. I wish he hadn't buried them at the end of an article that was very one-sided (e.g., "Hacker News is a cesspit"). I wish he had made a nice summary like the one you
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I personally avoid using "rape" in such contexts. I don't like it. I agree with the parent comment, who says that it "is so deeply emotive and meaningful, in such an inappropriate context." So I agree that the comme
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Let me know when you want to stop speaking in metaphors or empty platitudes or unrepresentative, cherry-picked snippets, and then we can have a discussion. So far, I see no actionable suggestions for how to solve the problem, or even a clea
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by BrandonM 12y ago
> There's a word for this kind of viewpoint. What would that be? For the record (and I hope this is clear in the context of the rest of that paragraph), I think getting bigoted views out in the open can be better than the alternativ
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by BrandonM 12y ago
> its a mode of thinking and analysis Right now, though, that thinking and analysis mostly comes with very little assistance from the computer. We are pleasantly surprised when a compiler manages to guess what we meant when we made a mis
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I'm surprised that the author could write such a cherry-picked article with a straight face. I clicked through to the six links in the twitter comments. Here's a summary of who made them: 1. bobcostas55: member for 146 days,
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Your '[1]' link doesn't make the point that you claim it does. That post says that 2014 data isn't available yet.
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We currently use the following pattern: interface ConsumerE<T, E extends Exception> { void accept(T t) throws E; } This actually works! The type inference is good enough to figure out the actual type of E. Note th
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When I was a working student, I was maximizing my student loans every quarter. My wages were going toward rent, credit card payments, and anything else I couldn't pay with credit cards. I also worked 40-50 hours per week during the sum
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Why would you consider Z85 to be a better choice? When you take URI encoding into account, Base64 is both simpler (no need for %-encoding)[0] and more space efficient (1.75 URI characters per byte for Z85, and 1.33 for Base64)[1]. The very

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