hutteman

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   by hutteman 8y ago

   It's a bad thing because it would prevent new players from entering that market. How could anyone successfully create a new competing product once the majority of the market uses the cheap Netflix+Hulu-only package, locking them out fr
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   by hutteman 11y ago

   No, it's essentially a way to automatically map between manually written SQL and custom object types; you can use MyBatis with annotations only; no XML required. The advantage is that, as you're writing and embedding actual SQL, y
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   by hutteman 12y ago

   I would say in most cases: no. Due to backwards compatibility concerns, no existing Java APIs that may currently return null can ever be changed to return Optionals instead, so nulls need to be dealt with regardless. Also, there's tech
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   by hutteman 14y ago

   I would agree that greatness in part depends on a certain innate talent, and most of us, no matter how hard we may try, will never get there. I think the difference between his categorization of "Good programmers" and its subcategory of "Re
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   by hutteman 14y ago

   I think you're confusing unit tests with integration tests. In integration tests you should indeed run as close to real data as possible and execute your system's entire stack, including database calls. Unit tests on the other hand should b
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   What Makes Great Programmers Different?(drdobbs.com)

   81 points by hutteman 14y ago|58 comments