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by beothorn 14y ago
From distrowatch http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity "The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visit
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by beothorn 14y ago
"Can Java really compete with a Perl module that has a long list of dependencies (50+ is a pain but will work) and some code tying it together...? " Maven does it. I'm pretty sure that all main languages have their equivalents too.
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by beothorn 14y ago
His arguments are so generic that you can change Ruby with any other language and a lot of his arguments still work.
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by beothorn 14y ago
A tip I've read here on HN, use chache:URL on google to see the cached version. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&safe=...
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by beothorn 14y ago
Easily accessible gpl code leads to bad IT professionals just like cheap bricks lead to badly build houses. We need to raise brick prices or else anyone can built their poor quality houses.
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by beothorn 14y ago
"Create unit tests that target exceptions" , @Test(expected=NullPointerException.class) Don't do this, any point of your test can throw this exception. A try/catch with an assert avoids false negatives and documents where you were expecting
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by beothorn 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_Theorem ?
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by beothorn 14y ago
It's strange because he wrote "making free software is not free" not "using free software is not free". This gives the impression that somehow working on ubuntu tweak is costing him too much money.
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by beothorn 14y ago
The rate of those types of disease being higher are maybe also a consequence of a longer lifespan.
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by beothorn 14y ago
From what I see, knowledge comes from experience and study. An IDE doesn't magically separates you from the need to know how stuff works. What you describe is a unexperienced programmer, but those exist in any area, using or not a IDE. From
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by beothorn 14y ago
Just curious, where do you live?
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by beothorn 14y ago
link can be a single String? I can see here new "info = new WebInfo(title, url, new String[]{link1, link2,...});" that it can't. This is the kind of thing you get with a typed object. Also, instead of Strings for title, url, etc you could u
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by beothorn 14y ago
orangecat example is type safe, your example trades a "compile time" error for a runtime error.
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by beothorn 14y ago
The verbosity of java allows an IDE like eclipse to exist. I agree that's very hard to program java without a powerful IDE, but there are a lot of things that you can do only with a static typed language and a IDE like eclipse. It's a fair
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by beothorn 14y ago
The site don't show without javascript. Why do I need it just to read text?
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by beothorn 14y ago
One thing I never see on these discussions about static typed versus dynamic is compile time errors versus runtime. For me this is really important, but I never see it mentioned anywhere, am I missing something?
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by beothorn 14y ago
err...no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by beothorn 14y ago
The core of quantum physics is that everything is "fundamentally random". From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg%27s_uncertainty_prin... "...the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems, and is
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by beothorn 14y ago
What I meant by "not using it is writing c" is that in this case you can put it as "c vs c++", but the real issue is using or not using a language feature. I phrased it badly.
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by beothorn 14y ago
This ^ If a language feature doesn't work for you, you don't need to use it. In this case not using it is writing c, but this is true to every program language. When I use a oo language I always use composition and ignore inheritance. Unfor
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by beothorn 14y ago
When someone talks about a country with the size of Brazil like if it was a little city is just dumb, and all concepts are just pre-conceived. Brazil has lots of different cultures, it's the biggest country on south america.
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by beothorn 14y ago
When I saw the title on my feed I tought the article would be about the python simple http server. One of the most useful commands that I've ever learned: python -m SimpleHTTPServer
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Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Java with no external libs(javatari.org)
70 points by beothorn 14y ago|24 comments
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by beothorn 14y ago
The smalltalk difference is not just syntax. Smalltalk uses messages instead of function calls. It's a different concept because smalltalk object can handle messages that are not declared on the class body. If you changed the parameters ord
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by beothorn 14y ago
I agree with all you said, except that writing the equivalent of "function(x) { return x.name.length > 10; }" on java is a syntax problem. There is a lot implicit when you declare this function on javascript, for example, it's visibilit
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by beothorn 15y ago
It's best to deliver later a better written application than deliver something fast but full of bugs. Quality brings more clients than it loses.
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by beothorn 15y ago
What about the cost of having your client finding bugs that could have been found if you were using tdd?
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by beothorn 15y ago
I'm beggining a github blog using jekyll. If anyone is interested, it is still a very basic and easy to understand setup. Also, I wrote a little script to write posts from the command line: https://github.com/beothorn/beothorn.github.com/b
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by beothorn 15y ago
I wonder how much of those come from mint installs, anyone have this information?
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by beothorn 15y ago
Never said that smalltalk is statically typed, I said I work with both on my job. A refactoring don't change the code behaviour by definition. I don't need someone to review my refactoring to look for errors from an automated refactoring, m

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