allertonm

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by allertonm 18y ago
No.
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by allertonm 18y ago
Java does have a pretty good SOAP stack, namely Axis. The claim of early SOAP advocates was that it would enable more loosely coupled, 'be liberal what you accept and conservative about what you generate' type services, especially when comp
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by allertonm 18y ago
While the actual implementation method that will be invoked is unknown, in a statically typed language the base class/interface and the method signature are known. In Java/Scala classes the types of the arguments are baked into the method
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by allertonm 18y ago
Since Scala is a compiled statically typed language and not an interpreted dynamic one, this technique is not necessary. Where this technique is useful is cases where the method being called is impossible to know until runtime, such as in R
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by allertonm 19y ago
How is the cost lower, for comparable quality content? It seems to me that YouTube has higher costs per viewer than conventional TV, and that production quality must be at least as good as regular TV to attract the same ad revenue.
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by allertonm 19y ago
This only works if you can guarantee that the changes are not intertwingled in the same code block. He is also taking a gamble that the result of his selection will actually parse/compile/pass unit tests (select as appropriate) - he has no
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by allertonm 19y ago
Absolutely, my first thought on reading this was "Why won't these data companies understand they should throw away their business so us coders can make some money?"
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by allertonm 19y ago
It also says "Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, held weekly meetings there before it was bought by Yahoo." I am pretty sure Flickr was based in Vancouver before they were bought by Yahoo, so this does not smell right. Updated: the SFG
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by allertonm 19y ago
That's one way of interpreting it. But it does seem that what he felt was natural was to override methods marked as "do not override" and access members marked "private" or "protected". Does your experience include creating a public binary
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by allertonm 19y ago
Given that this guy's main complaint with C#/.NET (as opposed to VS) is essentially that it allows the designer of a library to enforce hiding of the implementation (see http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2008/02/13/brief-list-of... ) I'm