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by V-2 8y ago
Question: Which writing form is likely the longest? A) article B) essay C) novel D) letter Aristo is not sure about this one... Aristo's best guess: phonograph Confidence: 18.71%
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by V-2 8y ago
And I can't see why someone young wouldn't follow a game producer company, or a fashion brand. Noone - whatever their age - cares about toothbrush companies. It was a very contrived example, that's my point
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by V-2 8y ago
> "You can follow brands but the youth want to follow a band or an actor not a toothbrush company." At what age is it supposed to become the other way round?
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by V-2 8y ago
That's the problem with three-player chess, too. Once two players turn against one, it's a beatdown.
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by V-2 8y ago
Or "except" where "accept" was meant
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by V-2 8y ago
I wonder whether it has converted into less spelling mistakes committed by AE users (in comparison to BE users)... Obviously, controlling for variables such as level of education and the like... Have there been any studies on the subject?
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by V-2 8y ago
Classic example of the "big redesign in the sky". Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by V-2 8y ago
> It'd be great if we native English-speakers would tolerate — and even encourage — "mistakes" in English to streamline (refactor?) the language and make it easier for non-native speakers to become fluent This is how lan
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by V-2 8y ago
In Polish it's the same story with "drzwi" (or "doors" - same thing as in English) as well as... "skrzypce" ("violin"). For some unfathomable reason it, too, is made to sound like a plural noun.
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by V-2 8y ago
"Kleszcze" may sound archaic, but it's technically a correct term (to denote a very specific type of tool). So DIY nerds wouldn't agree with you.
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by V-2 8y ago
I think so too
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by V-2 8y ago
"Java programmers are male." Not typically no
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by V-2 8y ago
"And it's about 7 extra characters in a line of this length." (regarding the example from "Class literals" sections) Well, the Kotlin line is still shorter overall, despite the ".java" bit, because it al
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by V-2 8y ago
Having to do this for every single ad you might be interested in certainly is some way of proving patience, persistence or phone handling skills, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work at a company where that's what is
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by V-2 8y ago
There are separate rooms (usually hosting about 3 to 10 devs) at the place where I'm at right now. The previous company where I worked eventually ended up with open floors - once they grew and moved to a new building - but also provide
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by V-2 8y ago
The particularly funny thing is how the blog admin - the author himself? - censors comments not to their liking, marking them as spam : ) They clearly are a bit touchy. Below, the comment he's deleted twice; you be the judge :) (I woul
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by V-2 8y ago
To me java.util.Optional is a crutch; an afterthought. I think it would never come to exist if nullability was done right to begin with. Native approach feels cleaner... to me, of course. For starters - in the context of the quoted code exa
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by V-2 8y ago
"result=: {&((65 97+/~i.2 13) |.@[} i.256)&.(a.&i.) Very efficient, minimum keystrokes. Can you tell me what it does?" Well; can you tell me what this means? :) https://www.publicdomainpictures.net&#x
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by V-2 8y ago
Kotlin the ketchup raises perfectly positive associations for an average Pole. It's a household name, and a company with a nearly century-long tradition under its belt! The authors wanted to name it after a Russian island (as a nod to
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by V-2 8y ago
"If you had to write "extends" in kotlin instead of use a colon, how often would you be doing it?" Certainly more often than you'll need someone to tell you what ":" in a class declaration does ;) I see
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by V-2 8y ago
Or fun parseAndInc(number: String?) = (number ?: "-1").toInt() + 1 ;)
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by V-2 8y ago
And the highly popular back in the day Pascal picked it right from Algol... Scala and Go follow the same approach, if I'm not mistaken
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by V-2 8y ago
filter, flatMap etc. are provided as extension functions for collections - see http://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collectio...
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by V-2 8y ago
"Kotlin changed the extends keyword into the : operator, which is already used to separate variable name from its type. Back to C++ syntax? For me it’s confusing." Not only C++; C# also. It's not very hard to confuse the au
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by V-2 8y ago
Heinz is American (and, in the context of the article, a global brand), not Russian.
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by V-2 8y ago
Oh yeah, I forgot about inc().
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by V-2 8y ago
Java version in the article: public int parseAndInc(String number) { return Optional.ofNullable(number) .map(Integer::parseInt) .map(it -> it + 1) .orElse(0); }
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by V-2 8y ago
A number of valid points, but I'm not convinced by most of your critique of Kotlin. Colon between names and types (as in "i: Int") "makes work in Kotlin harder" ? Seriously? By as much as having to end lines with s
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by V-2 8y ago
Highlighting with what purpose? What political associations could possibly go with "Drumpf" that are absent from "Trump"?
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by V-2 8y ago
People are not blocked. Only accounts are blocked. It's not the same thing at all. It's trivial (and free) to create another account; in other words, the ban is not tied to you as a person, only to certain account. Besides, yo

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