ebruchez

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by ebruchez 6y ago
Don't look for a rationale. See this recent article "The Node Is Nonsense: https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20... It goes in depth into this topic.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> Scala seemed like a mess at the time (from a distance - no idea whether I'm right). I love Scala, and it's getting better year over year from all angles. It's also getting a little more opinionated. The upcoming version
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by ebruchez 6y ago
Not sure what to say to that, except that it might have been a long time ago, or with some very specific libraries or teams? If it was years ago, then I can say that things have changed a lot since the last time you touched Scala, and in th
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by ebruchez 6y ago
Switzerland doesn't "work purely by plebiscites". It's also a representative government. But it is true that there is more direct democracy , through so-called "initiatives" and "referendums". Those
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by ebruchez 6y ago
XML 1.1 was considered a failure by W3C and it is not recommended that anybody use it.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> We are at almost 8 billion and growing very rapidly The "growing very rapidly" part is not true (1). The main reason the world population is still growing is that people live longer. Only relatively few countries still have o
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by ebruchez 6y ago
iOS and Android native apps with their walled gardens.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> type parameters/generics Those are purely compile-time constructs.
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by ebruchez 7y ago
You can write `x lt 10` since XSLT 2.0 in 2007.
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by ebruchez 7y ago
It's a very enjoyable movie, but it's almost pure fiction, just so you know.
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by ebruchez 7y ago
> Staggered keys are just a remnant of old typewriters. It's true (the Sholes & Glidden introduced that) but just for the record, some quite old typewriters had ortholinear keyboards, like the Smith Premier: https://w
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by ebruchez 7y ago
Native French speaker here. Maybe it's confusing to discuss this in terms of syllables unless you are a linguist. If you just want to learn how to say the word, what matters is how people actually say the word. Specifically, you pronou
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by ebruchez 10y ago
Author here. Would you say that you are not "running Scala" on your laptop or server because your Scala code is compiled to Java bytecode first, then interpreted and JITted by the JVM? Of course not. Running Scala compiled to Java
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Deconstructing a Scala feature: Generalized type constraints (without a PhD)(blog.bruchez.name)
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by ebruchez 12y ago
By the way it seems that Dart is struggling to get any support at all within Google. Also, it's not statically typed and bringing it to the Android runtime might be much more effort. In short no, I wouldn't bet Go or Dart will be
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by ebruchez 12y ago
Maybe this could change if Google helped, don't you think?