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by dlandis 7y ago
“Myth: Perl 6 has no target demographic and no niche. Reality: So what?” Wait, so it’s not a “myth” then, right? Or am I missing the joke?
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by dlandis 7y ago
I tend to not like it when companies transform the meaning of a popular brand into a more general, "parent" brand. Why would you intentionally make the meaning of a well-understood brand ambiguous? In the Java ecosystem, Eclipse a
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by dlandis 7y ago
His conclusion that "high quality software is cheaper to produce" neglects to mention any kind of time frame over which it actually becomes "cheaper". Over the short term (e.g. the next several product features) it may i
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by dlandis 7y ago
Well, you are talking about one of the most infamously toxic tech companies. Harassment and discrimination were also against their company policy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/technology/uber-sexual
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by dlandis 7y ago
> In this case, unlike in Illinois Brick, the iPhone owners are not consumers at the bottom of a vertical distribution chain who are attempting to sue manufacturers at the top of the chain. There is no intermediary in the distribution ch
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by dlandis 7y ago
That's right that _pure_ JEE has not been preferred, but part of my original point is that simple things like servlets are actually technically part of JEE - so if you are using Spring for web, cloud, etc then you are actually using JE
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by dlandis 7y ago
> You also need to realize that it wasn't a negotiation between Oracle and some grassroot project, but among multi-billion-dollar corporations, some of whom have fought Java standards for over a decade, so the process was both legal
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by dlandis 7y ago
Looks very interesting although unfortunate they went with Maven over Gradle.
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by dlandis 7y ago
> So Java is not only the safe choice for serious server-side software; it's also the bleeding edge. Sure for core Java (OpenJDK), but what the future of JEE licensing and development? Even non-"enterprise" apps typically
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by dlandis 7y ago
They don't support all states unfortunately.
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by dlandis 8y ago
> Does "rendering" really mean template parsing? It's kind of a misnomer; it usually means generating a "renderable" thing (e.g. HTML) , not actually rendering it on the screen because yes the browser does that.
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by dlandis 8y ago
I see, that’s interesting. Although I also wonder if players cheat in other, more subtle, ways such as to just prevent blunders; not necessarily to choose the best moves.
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by dlandis 8y ago
What (if anything) stops people from cheating in online tournaments (by simply asking a computer for the best next move, given the current board arrangement)?
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by dlandis 8y ago
> That was 2016. Since then, the Defense Department has admitted that it allowed a firefighting foam to slip into at least 55 drinking water systems at military bases around the globe, sometimes for generations. Where's the list of
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by dlandis 8y ago
Austin here they come. <ducks>
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by dlandis 8y ago
> Then I realize it's even better than before because it demonstrates for a potential employer that you'll push whatever buttons you're asked to in exchange for money... Well you don't know why the person left the com
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by dlandis 8y ago
If true, this seems to be one of the more clear cut recent examples of unethical policies devised by Facebook employees. I suspect certain other policies and programs can be mentally justified, but when it comes to very obvious things like
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by dlandis 8y ago
> Web products get internationalization for free, which is important for a small, cash-strapped team. I like the article but this statement is not true. Internationalization is quite a big topic and there is no way to automatically make
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by dlandis 8y ago
> Getting a voice assistant was life-changing for me Can you expand on that? In what way?
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by dlandis 8y ago
Ugh, not another site that blocks pinch to zoom gestures on mobile. It doesn’t make sense to me why so many (quite popular) sites care so little about enabling their users to comfortably read their content. The solution, for now, is to use
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by dlandis 8y ago
The author also seems to be oblivious to the fact that many developers actually _enjoy_ doing those other things (besides just cranking out code).
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by dlandis 8y ago
Why is this being upvoted now? People have been forking iText for years, ever since the license was changed to AGPL. This repo doesn't even look very active and the last release was last year.
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by dlandis 8y ago
Of course they bury the most important part in the last sentence of the article. > So if long-term rates were pushed lower by central bank bond buying, and now short-term rates are being pushed higher as the Fed tightens its monetary pol
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by dlandis 8y ago
> it was almost impossible to find a non-.NET developer job. Mostly agree with the points, but I think it was always just as easy (if not easier) to find an enterprise Java based job than it was a .NET developer job.
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by dlandis 8y ago
> “We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks.” So I think they are saying "mental preoccupation" more than "stress" per se is the cause of the decl
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by dlandis 8y ago
> Oh, and on some random guy’s laptop, with a panel of 4 people watching me type as they sit in silence, and with 20 minutes remaining. That part, to me, is worse then the question. Are you exaggerating, or did the panel really just sit
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by dlandis 9y ago
> Zuckerberg claimed not to know what "shadow profiles" are Did he really claim outright to not know what they are? Anyone have that quote from the testimony?
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by dlandis 9y ago
Looks really good - excited to try it! Generally before adopting a language for a new project, (for me) it would need to have things like: - good build tool including dependency management - reasonably fast compiler - decent standard librar
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by dlandis 9y ago
> "The very places that made Austin so hip are being demolished to make room for the hotels and office spaces needed to accommodate the flood of tourists and newcomers who have come to enjoy what no longer exists" Anyone know w
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by dlandis 9y ago
> a business model that harms drivers and the environment, and drains away passengers and revenue from public transportation. It's disingenuous to complain about how public transportation is being undermined and to propose regulatio

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