Randgalt

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by Randgalt 11y ago
Do API docs actually provide much benefit in practice? Does anyone actually use Javadocs, for example? The problem with documentation at this level is that it's too low level. It useful, maybe, as a quick reference once you already kno
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Why is a warmer Earth bad? I'd rather this new climate than the climate of the Little Ice Age. Humans tend to do better in warmer climates.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Every day I write in bash, Javascript, XML, JSON, Java, Scala and probably a few others. Trivial differences don't matter.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I don't think you can say one is objectively right or wrong. However, as someone who's programmed for nearly 40 years, the entire issue seems like a fetish. Would anyone choose a language solely based on whether separators were re
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by Randgalt 11y ago
No, it's not. It's primarily Google Guice via Governator.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
This view is missing some things. For example, Curator (now at Apache).
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I saw another article that said "cause of death was not known".
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Even to win the state lottery you have to make the effort to buy a ticket. Are you saying you've done nothing more significant than having good parents?
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by Randgalt 11y ago
In the context of fairness vs equality I've never read/heard a similar comparison to ability.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Age, height, even weight (for the most part) are qualities of humans that cannot be controlled. Wealth is qualitatively different than these attributes. Edit: no one would ever talk about the distribution of "ability at basketball&quot
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by Randgalt 11y ago
The article never defines what fairness is. Another word for fairness is "justice". The article betrays its bias when it analyzes how income is "distributed". Of course, income isn't distributed - it's earned.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I'm 51 and have never had trouble finding work. Stay current, relevant and, most importantly, specialize.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
BS - Java 9 is well on it's way. Java will live long.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Try opening a bank account as a foreign US resident. It took my over a month to get my bank account and required copious documentation and a lawyer. All the time there was no guarantee that I would actually get the account. I personally kn
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by Randgalt 11y ago
It seems a natural. Unless they have a special relationship with Microsoft of course.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
The "micro" in microservices is the issue. It reminds me of the "No-SQL" movement. The truth is that EVERYONE has a multi-tiered architecture. The only question is how many tiers you need. It's always more than 1.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
BS - I worked at Netflix for over 2 years and took lots of vacations - long ones too.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
^^^ Winner. The reports of Java's death have been greatly exaggerated
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Maybe they'll finally fix Jira's email spamming: https://rule1.quora.com/Does-Atlassian-Give-an-F
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Just make sure you read this first: https://aphyr.com/posts/316-call-me-maybe-etcd-and-consul
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by Randgalt 11y ago
You have the correct response. The paper is a sleight of hand. It defines CAP as something it's not and then attacks the straw man.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Nice compendium. I don't agree with everything, but I doubt you can get an Java devs to agree on everything.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
"Due to the similarity between Python and Go" - huh? Go and Python are almost perfectly orthogonal.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
>Frost's intentions with the poem weren't straightforward But, it doesn't tell us what Frost's intent was. I did a Google search and didn't find much. > The manner in which you dismissed the new way of looking
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by Randgalt 11y ago
It's an important point, however. If the teacher had said "Asimov means X" the teacher would be wrong. But, if the teacher is saying that he interprets the words as X he is right.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Can you give urls for Frost's letters?
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I haven't read Orr's book so maybe there's more evidence for Frost's intent there. But, in the article, there's just one quote from Frost on the subject: "I’ll bet not half a dozen people can tell who was hit a
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Why should I believe David Orr? His argument is slim and I disagree with his conclusion. I read the poem again after reading Orr's article and it has the same meaning as it always has for me: go your own way and it will make all the di
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I've just started using Capsule for an internal project. It's an excellent library. For our use case, we need to have a bash script that runs before the app starts. With capsule this is very easy. Also, because capsule doesn'
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by Randgalt 11y ago
This should not be taken as a judgement on Guava. Guava is a popular library, and for good reasons. But the rationale here is rather simple: A lot of the benefits of Guava have been supplanted by additions to the JDK in JDK 7 and JDK 8 (e.g

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