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541.
by apta 6y ago
It's good and important to have a proper function healthcare system. However, we shouldn't fall into the false dichotomy fallacy. We don't have to pay 50% of our pay checks in taxes in order to provide good healthcare for all
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by apta 6y ago
As I mentioned, you don't have to use unnecessary interfaces with DI (compile time or runtime). You can directly inject your implementation classes. Secondly, huge stack traces are not related to DI either, they're an orthogonal i
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by apta 6y ago
My source is simply reading history :) It has been reported that during time of Omar ibn Abdul-Aziz, there were no poor people left to take Zakah, since everyone paid their dues. The difference between Zakah and wealth tax as proposed in th
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by apta 6y ago
What kind of bloat are you talking about here? Binary and/or runtime cost? In the case of Java/JVM (and I believe C#/.NET) the JIT is almost trivially able to inline monomorphic calls, meaning that effectively, these interfac
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by apta 6y ago
Income (and sales) tax is a terrible model. A "wealth tax" (e.g. see how Islam requires Zakah) is superior, and has been historically shown to work.
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by apta 6y ago
Excellent work by the team. Hope to be able to use this soon!
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by apta 6y ago
You don't have to incur the cost of reflection. Dagger2 for instance, is a compile time DI framework. Micronaut is also compile time.
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by apta 6y ago
> he still holds ~50M shares (worth ~$165 a pop as of this writing). I don't understand people like this. What could you possibly do with all that money? Just sell and retire.
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25 Years of Java(blogs.oracle.com)
5 points by apta 6y ago|0 comments
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by apta 6y ago
It's unfortunate that it's now owned by China as well. There are some good communities there however.
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by apta 6y ago
It's a huge code base, with literally thousands of sub-projects, with non-overlapping teams working on them. When I see the same issues arise, the only common thing is the language.
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by apta 6y ago
The JVM yes, and Java is the platform language, so it is the most efficient language for the JVM, and the one with least impedance mismatch. golang is not a magical solution that doesn't have problems. It has its fair share. Its gc is
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Huawei denies involvement in buggy Linux kernel patch proposal(zdnet.com)
3 points by apta 6y ago|0 comments
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by apta 6y ago
> This collapse is a reminder that we need to fundamentally change the way corporations are structured and start encouraging more focus on the business as a whole Not only that. The current economic system is fundamentally flawed due to
555.
by apta 6y ago
There should be more ethical considerations before adding such companies as "strategic members". They really shouldn't have.
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by apta 6y ago
> Go was never intended to replace C++ As per the creators of the language who claimed that they got the idea of writing a new language while waiting for C++ to compile, it was. You can read up about this from them, they were quite clear
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by apta 6y ago
It's a non-public code base.
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by apta 6y ago
* https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/328 * https://www.baeldung.com/java-flight-recorder-monitoring * https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jmx/overview/javavm....
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by apta 6y ago
The irony is that golang was created to replace C++ at Google, yet it didn't even make a dent in its usage for serious products. C++ and Java remain the heavy lifters there, as well as at other major establishments, precisely because o
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by apta 6y ago
I know how to write golang, which is why I'm well aware of its shortcomings and the issues its inferior design causes, and the costly bandaids that have to be implemented to poorly attempt to mitigate said issues.
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by apta 6y ago
> and instead tries to revert back to a previous monetary system that was abandoned because it was failing. The consensus among economists is that a deflationary currency is a terrible idea Much like how usury (aka interest) is such a g
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by apta 6y ago
Which is so ironic to leave the economy of a country up to the whims of a private entity, where the people running it indulge in parasitic and immoral practices (interest/usury) to always profit off of the backs of people.
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by apta 6y ago
Java is going a similar route (project Loom), but they'll be implemented in a better way. Things like timeouts in golang are awkard to enforce, and monitoring hierarchies are not built-in. Java's Loom is already getting both.
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by apta 6y ago
> -- Compile times! golang compile times are similar for any non-trivial project. Ironically, they're even much worse than Java's for quick changes (e.g. change a single file then recompile to run tests) since golang has to spi
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by apta 6y ago
Even if it does get generics, it's not enough to fix all the issues with the language. Java and C# are getting native compilation soon (GraalVM, CoreRT), and when they do, it's hard pressing to see why anyone would settle for an i
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by apta 6y ago
The absurd income and sales taxes definitely do not promote innovation. Correlation is not causation.
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by apta 6y ago
You raise a good point. We'll have to anecdotally study why that's the case. For instance, many women in the law and medicine fields end up marrying men in the same fields. So those women can then later on decide to either reduce
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by apta 6y ago
People who want power and money will move to wherever power and money exist, it's a tautology. Whether it be in finance or C-level positions. It's just a part of life I suppose, not that it's a good thing.
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by apta 6y ago
It's established that the Google-style interview questions bear no semblance to real world performance or software engineering skills. All they test is the ability to memorize leetcode style questions and regurgitate them during interv
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by apta 6y ago
> It's 10Ks worth of C# that I could do in a few hundred in Python (and have it perform better). You could also re-write the same code in C#, and have it perform even better than the hypothetical Python version, while being around t

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