cryptos

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   by cryptos 6y ago

   I consider this a totally useless "innovation"! As if Scala didn't have already enough possibilities to express things, no we are able to leave out braces, what makes scanning code even harder and will lead to an ugly mixture
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   Most Kotlin devs I know are not particularly interested in coroutines. There is a lot more to like about Kotlin: native function types (instead of functional interfaces), unified type system, bottom type, Unit type (instead of the special c
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   Yes, SBT is just terrible! It is the reference for usability nightmare in the category build tools.
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   I have the same feelings about Scala. It was fun to write Scala code and it was inspiring, but the tooling was terrible and there were way too many possibilities to express the same thing. Scalaz was essentially a language in a language tha
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   I'm somewhat tired of claims based on the "scientific" TIOBE index! Although such rankings are mostly good for entertainment, I'd whish there were a better, more solid index. Redmonk is better, but a bit too limited in i
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   But in the meantime methane has bigger effect (per kg) than CO2.
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   The article contains many bold statements without any backing. For example Google didn't introduce Kotlin because they want to have a nice toy language like Apple had with Swift, but they just followed the developers that were already
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   I don't know Peter Coad, but the approach reminds me of domain driven design (DDD). Most business logic would be in objects named entities, but DDD has also services, since there might be logic that affects multiple entities (actually
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   by cryptos 6y ago

   Bad enough, but b look at the cars threy sell today!
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    It is an interesting view on software quality, but I think software quality is really multi dimensional (while the pyramid has only one - up and down). Internal quality can't be ignored. Without good internal quality you can't eve
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    While I agree in the case of upper case keywords, I consider := and = to be actually better than = and ==. That would also help to avoid syntactical abominations like === and !==.
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    Thinking about recursion is thinking about recursion.
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    Computers made it into the furthest corners of our lives. They are controlling critical infrastructure or are a front-end for it. So IT security should really be a top priority in almost any software project or product. The upside is that n
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    Jira supports Story Points with decimal points(twitter.com)

    2 points by cryptos 6y ago|0 comments
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    As an engineer I'm used to think in trade-offs, and I wonder why that is not more common. The goals they whish to attain might be reasonable, but at what price? What are the disadvantages? In Europe there are some states becoming more
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    That is true, but I would argue that typical applications are hard to implement in a RESTful way, since there is always some kind of understanding necessary. A human could understand that "inbox" was renamed to "incoming mail
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    There was a great article about the common misconceptions about REST recently: https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html The longer I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that REST is simply
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    What Functional Programming Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters(inner-product.com)

    3 points by cryptos 6y ago|0 comments
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    > good OOP practice means you provide getter and setter methods to control access to that data It is this superficial understanding of OOP that led to a somewhat bad reputation. At least in the form "getX" and "setX"
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    I had a large link collection there, but migrated away when the stumbling began. After trying some of these services, I've settled with diigo.com and never looked back. It seems to be a rock solid business that won't appear anytim
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    Fair point. A compromise could a somewhat shorter version of the original link: https://amazon.com/Fundamentals-Software-Architecture/dp/B0849MPK73/ This includes the main title of the book + ID (this
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    It would be good if more care would be taken when designing URL schemes. It is not accidental that URL shorteners are used everywhere. Look for example at this link: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Software-Architec
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    Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees?

    100 points by cryptos 6y ago|153 comments
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    What is the big advantage of replacing the body and updating the header compared to just refreshing the complete page?
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    Probably interesting in this context is ROCA, Resource-oriented Client Architecture. The basic idea is to deliver HTML and beeing RESTful, while using JavaScript only to enhance user experience ("Progressive Enhancement"). However
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    I appreciate such efforts and consider QWERTY more or less a historical accident. But how do you actually use these layouts? Do you pull the keys from your keyboard and rearrange them physically? But what about notebooks then where this is
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    We really need more courageous people like Tim Bray!
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    What is the business model?
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    Thanks, it works.
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    by cryptos 6y ago

    While we are at it: Does anyone know how to hide the new commit view? I haven't found a related action I could assign a shortcut to.