cryptos

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1. 601.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   Look for the hard things in software development. To learn a new programming language or framework is not that hard. Software architecture, requirements engineering or the overall development process are hard.
2. 602.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   "REST = HTTP + JSON" is absolute nonsense!
3. 603.▲
   Java template engine like Razor and Play templates(rythmengine.org)

   1 points by cryptos 13y ago|0 comments
4. 604.▲
   Will Java 8 kill Scala?(linkedin.com)

   3 points by cryptos 13y ago|0 comments
5. 605.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   An often overlooked fact is that a lot complexity in the Java world is in the frameworks. You can express many things directly in Scala, for which you would use a Java framework a bunch of annotations (without compile time semantics).
6. 606.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   Method names like ~, %, %% or #> are terrible in Scala! This should be generally banned as bad practice. There are too many developers creating obscure and unreadable code with such method names. I even thought to create readable adapter
7. 607.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   I wanted to say: "it looked to me like a statically typed Python "
8. 608.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   I tried Go for the same reasons. It looked to me like a statically typed Java, but in practice it was not the best experience. The Code is not more expressive than Java, but you lose all the good libs and tools from Java. Most annoying was
9. 609.▲
   by cryptos 13y ago

   IntelliJ IDEA 13 will have a real SBT integration.
10. 610.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    I like the emphasis of freedom in the Firefox philosophie, but I must admit that I'm using Chrome more and more. This is simply because firefox has more bugs annoying me. A few month ago there was a terrible font rendering bug in FF fo
11. 611.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    Or even more concise: List("Rob", "Christopher", "Joe", "John").filter(_.size < 5).foreach(println)
12. 612.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    Bitcoins don't have a "true" value by definition. The value is the belief of the Bitcoin crowd.
13. 613.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    Copying was and is one of the most fundamental processes in human culture. You have learned to speak by copying! The "intellectual property" propaganda is a relatively new and artificial construct.
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    Will Scala ever be enterprise-ready?(alblue.bandlem.com)

    78 points by cryptos 13y ago|102 comments
15. 615.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    I like this metaphor very much. It is much easier to wrap it.
16. 616.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    That was my first thought, too.
17. 617.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    This relates to the website, but maybe there should be malware warnings for programming languages too ;-)
18. 618.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    See this poll in a table sorted by like/dislike quotient. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=... German original: http://helmbold.de/artikel/programmiersprachen
19. 619.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    ActionScript is a terrible language with its pseudo static typing.
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    Perfect URIs(translate.google.com)

    1 points by cryptos 13y ago|0 comments
21. 621.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    Same here, but with Windows' own backup tool.
22. 622.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    Yes, NTFS would support much longer paths than 260 characters.
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    Fix 260 character file name length limitation: Declined(visualstudio.uservoice.com)

    126 points by cryptos 13y ago|102 comments
24. 624.▲
    by cryptos 13y ago

    This API is not as smart as JAX-RS or Scalatra. Spark code contains much clutter and redundancy (repeated paths). Frameworks like this would profit from Java 8 lamdas.
25. 625.▲
    by cryptos 14y ago

    I'm using a Python script that watches file changes in a directory, and renders changed text files with templates to html files. The output is then uploaded to the server.
26. 626.▲
    by cryptos 14y ago

    Consolas (Windows) or BitStream Vera Sans Mono ( http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.... )