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by bjarneh 6y ago
I've read some many of these Java is actually better/faster/lighter than you think articles; I now always expect Java to be the right choice whenever I see a headline like that..
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Totally agree. Never understood why people would like that other type of fame when you cannot walk anywhere without drawing a crowd. At some point the only people you can truly hang out with are other extremely famous people.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> In many labs the 'thinkers' get far more credit and are more valued than the 'doers' In terms of software this never made much sense to me. I would understand if we where talking chemistry or some other discipline w
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by bjarneh 6y ago
I've seen many research papers where all they disclose about the software is some pseudo code + some tables with timing results to prove their "performance gains". For those types of papers I agree with your statement. But in
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by bjarneh 6y ago
I agree that academia produces its fare share of spaghetti code, but I don't think all of his arguments are correct. > writing software is a low status academic activity This is just not true. People like: Stallman, Knuth, Ritchie,
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> and canned a number of programs What programs?
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by bjarneh 6y ago
jquery is still a superb library, such a clever design.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
I agree; this seems like someone with so little technical ability, that I wouldn't be surprised if he did manage to talk someone into a buying a multi million dollar defense project he could not deliver... > I lost my family, my cou
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> when mom cant pay back the loan You seem to know this 'mom' quite well :-)
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> who lends $10 to his mom Poor mom, who needs to lend $10 from her son :-)
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Good point, but this type of math always puzzles me. We owe ourselves 356% of what we produce every year? We don't owe this money to some foreign planet with a death-star pointing at us. So at what point should we be concerned? What is
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by bjarneh 6y ago
My first question as well. I guess they pay quite well...
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> accuses the author of saying something so obviously correct Perhaps I do; but my main "accusation" here is that the title is pure click bait, if it was replaced by this: SQL - Don't fetch data you don't need!
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns. Title is a bit click-bait-ish; I was expecting some deep insight of why this: SELECT A,B,C FROM TBL; was superior to this: SELECT * FROM TBL; whe
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Sounds good, perhaps a language that needs a revisit.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Yes it gets better, and the 'fsc' (Fast Scala Compiler) does improve on the situation somewhat; but I've always found it annoyingly slow. It should be mentioned that I haven't looked very hard at that language in many ye
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Scala is one of those great languages with that one Achilles heel. The speed of that compiler: $ time scalac Hello.scala real 0m2,907s user 0m7,901s sys 0m0,308s $ cat Hello.scala object Hello{ def main
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> has better IntelliJ support That's gonna be hard to beat for most languages I guess, the best IntelliJ support will most likely always go to Kotlin :-)
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by bjarneh 6y ago
That's probably true; people are most likely to give feedback if it's negative; making the TrustPilot way of earning money even worse, as it mostly attracts negative reviews. Then companies with those negative reviews have to &quo
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Perhaps a bit off-topic, but TrustPilot is a form of near-perfect evil. That is certainly not off-topic in this context. The horrid behavior (or business model) of TrustPilot is relevant (and immoral), and should be known. Every time I
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by bjarneh 6y ago
There are many phones that have it (and have had it for a while like the Pixel it seems). Some can also enable Google lens from within the camera app, I cannot though on stock Android version 10.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
There probably could be some backlash, but it would be easy for Google to brush this off by listing harmful features they removed in the process. They have done more drastic things in the past. They have even removed apps entirely from Andr
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> these have both been built-in for years. If Android has a built-in QR scanner now, that must be something that came with Android 11, but September 8 2020 cannot qualify as "for years". It takes a while for OEM's to catch
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Well, when the users already give the government access to their location 24/7 with that app, at least they include a barcode/QR scanner. But privacy is clearly one of the victims of this pandemic. At least some countries are now
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> How are they going to do this without generating more criticism? From the people who make those crummy apps; criticism surely cannot hurt Google all that much? > But then you’d have to get an OS update to heaps of phones. That'
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Fear of anti-competition lawsuits and complaints. They could just create an open source variant that suddenly shows up top when people search for QR or barcode scanner. It would be in their best interest, and it would not violate any a
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Yeah, it's always in the flashlights, the barcode scanners, the background packs. Why are Google afraid to release a free non-harmful version of those popular apps. Is it to keep the illusion the app-store is a vibrant market plac
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Is there anything you guys in New Zealand haven't done better during this pandemic? :-)
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Apps that offer what should have been offered by the OS vendor in the first place. This is really it. The Google/Android team have already made the "Zebra" library that actually reads barcodes; why on earth do they not i
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Small contributions typically required hours of my time to properly test and validate them. Exactly, a small patch can be very time consuming to review. Fully understand the author.

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