dionian

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by dionian 7y ago
Also, Taiwan
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by dionian 7y ago
Was it the people saying to remove all the extras, or the people who put the extras in?
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by dionian 7y ago
Yup plus it gives them the opportunity to grandstand about why their rivals didn't approve
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by dionian 7y ago
it's always moved slow on purpose... one of the language's greatest features is backwards compatibility and stability it's purposefully dead simple. this is why many of us switched to alternative JVM langs ... Java can't
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by dionian 7y ago
> Also, you are going to end up storing in decimal fields in the database anyway. why not use cents as the unit and store it without decimals?
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by dionian 7y ago
It's always easy to find where they occur. But it's not easy to find why. Its better to never allow the model to be invalid, and error immediately when it becomes invalid rather than when it causes some surprising undefined beha
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by dionian 7y ago
use several of your libs in production code for this reason - simple, type safe stuff. perfect example of scala's flexibility. you can write simple/clean stuff in Scala it just takes discipline. scala is a lot like perl, a powerfu
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by dionian 7y ago
It turns out that myths are an incredibly powerful vessel to preserve and transmit information. Especially before we had widespread access to printing presses, books, and libraries
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by dionian 7y ago
what i want to see is kotlin vs scala
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by dionian 7y ago
I'm a seasoned java dev (since before 1.4) and i didnt realize i was supposed to use URI, i did know of it, but I'm always confused what to use and wind up using URL. But, just like Vector remains in use in Swing, URL remains in u
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by dionian 7y ago
youre not wrong and i may be biased as a long time java guy but if i had to do java without the tooling to make it less annoying , id probably try to switch languages... and this is an independent problem from the other benefits i get from
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by dionian 7y ago
back in the day when i started java, which was its early days(90's), we didnt even have a package manager type solution for java libraries (i.e. maven) - UNIX had a massive head start on java in some respects
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by dionian 7y ago
when the fractions actually dont matter... its so painless just to just store everything in pennies rather than dollars (multiply everything by 100)
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by dionian 7y ago
automated tests don't necessarily catch all errors
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by dionian 7y ago
> RejoinableTCP actually i understood a lot from this name, but i get it
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by dionian 7y ago
The premise that 'traditional media' is not part of the problem is a terrible one. Censorship is not a good solution to bad ideas. Open marketplace of ideas is.
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by dionian 7y ago
Been using iOS 13 since early betas. Working great for me
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by dionian 7y ago
Often true, but often 'beautiful code' does not impact the bottom line - even in the long term.
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by dionian 7y ago
I grew up in OK around the same time, it was covered in public school for me. We even took a field trip to Greenwood
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by dionian 7y ago
that seems geographically/culturally ignorant rather than racist, but maybe i missed it
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by dionian 7y ago
hard to have a safer bet than the JVM as your platform. not like changes like Jigsaw come around that often
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by dionian 7y ago
This was my favorite editorial-posing-as-neutral-news sentence: > as the top Republican in Congress blocks efforts to protect the integrity of elections. (translation: democrats want to protect our elections, republicans are russians) I
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by dionian 7y ago
Also wrong to call only negative things propaganda
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by dionian 7y ago
things as important as democratic representation and national sovereignty should require the support of the people, they can be informed by experts, but should not have their decisions made by experts when it comes to peaceful self-determin
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by dionian 7y ago
your very directed criticism of FLG still doesnt make them sound anywhere near as bad as the CCP (the group murdering and silencing them), so...
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by dionian 7y ago
> To put it in American terms, I think they need Bernie, not Trump. They can have neither. They have Xi. CCP controls the elections....
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by dionian 7y ago
also why are they using twitter its banned in china for censorship reasons
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by dionian 7y ago
Which would indicate that US will have a massive amount of leverage to renegotiate trade
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by dionian 7y ago
Are you saying the people saying we shouldn't give China free money à la TPP are the problem? Because you've basically undermined your whole argument from where I am sitting.
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by dionian 7y ago
"climate change denial" is a blanket term for anyone who disagrees with anything. "You dont want to give No-Strings-Attached money to China to help the environment? You must be a Anti-Science Denier!"

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