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by incepted 11y ago
This is what's most baffling in these arguments about Smalltalk, the fact that even though these technologies are separated by twenty years, you automatically assume there has been no innovation nor improvement and that therefore, Smal
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by incepted 11y ago
> It's not a half-joke, it's a fact. Smalltalk advocates never fail to entertain. Java has HotSpot, IDE's that actually perform automatic refactoring (Smalltalk's IDE's are naturally limited because the language
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by incepted 11y ago
It took a minute to load, brought my beefy laptop to its knees and every character key press takes half a second to display... Probably the most faithful recreation of the Smalltalk I used to use in the late 80s.
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> the stock is down 3% in after-hours trading. Any fluctuation within 5% is perfectly normal and totally meaningless.
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by incepted 11y ago
> At the end of the day, you just end up having to code for both the case where the list matches the size requirements of the code you want to call and the case where it doesn't. I don't follow. If your list is not the right si
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by incepted 11y ago
Dependently type languages are wonderful in theory and a royal pain in the butt in practice. It's a great example of "devil in the details" kind of thing. For example, let's say you define a type of list of size n. Great
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by incepted 11y ago
> But then I would need to create a real instance of that trait first which implements the missing abstract metho You don't seem to know that Kotlin supports delegation natively. Look up the `by` keyword. And please just post some c
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by incepted 11y ago
I see it the other way around: Scala demonstrated that a C++-like beast with too many features is not what the community wants since Scala failed to gain any sizeable mind share. Kotlin is an attempt at taking the other road: building an in
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Gosling stopped all technical involvement with Java in the late 90s.
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by incepted 11y ago
Interestingly, "oh people could maybe need this" immediately made me think you were talking about Scala.
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by incepted 11y ago
For languages with type inference, this syntax makes the code somewhat cleaner overall. As for Groovy, it's barely statically typed so not really an option for me.
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by incepted 11y ago
> So why don't you name those things that you don't like? Because then you will tell me that I don't like these features because I don't understand them? But alright, here are a few: - The type projector lambda syntax
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by incepted 11y ago
> The reason Scala has so many features is that it chooses to be 100% compatible with Java, Not sure what you mean, the ABI compatibility doesn't require any feature to work. Does Scala support higher kinded types to be compatible w
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by incepted 11y ago
> Scala's surface area isn't especially large though? You'll find plenty of disagreement with that feeling everywhere you ask... The fact that you choose to use a small subset of all these features is irrelevant: eventuall
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by incepted 11y ago
> you might want to name actual things that you don't like, as in things that you can talk about, instead of things that are non-falsifiable. Sure, I could name things that I don't like but they will be by definition non falsif
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by incepted 11y ago
Scala's runtime also disqualifies it from anything but toy projects on Android (something like 50k methods). This document goes in greater details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ReS3ep-hjxWA8kZi0YqDbEhC.
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by incepted 11y ago
Last I checked, Xtend generates Java, so it's kind of a non starter. A year ago, I would have put Kotlin and Ceylon on the same level in potential but Kotlin seems to have gained some momentum this past year. On the other hand, I barel
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by incepted 11y ago
> but still very limited compared to Scala. The fact that Kotlin has fewer features than Scala is what makes it appealing to me. Scala has become a kitchen sink with too many features, it's kind of the C++ of the 21st century in tha
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by incepted 11y ago
Meh. I think an even greater Regexp trick is the regular expression that determines primality: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296050/how-does-this-reg...
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Hello German friend, > So basically, strong preference for open technologies is a pragmatic risk mitigation and investment protection. .net and Microsoft technologies completely invalidate that claim, don't you think?
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by incepted 11y ago
Then you're limiting the amount of skills you possess. Learn open source and proprietary technologies alike, now you become someone with a lot of diverse skills. This open source fanboyism makes no sense if you want to be professional
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by incepted 11y ago
Apple open sourcing Swift is not magically goingto make your skills transportable. The only person who can make your skills transportable is yourself.
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by incepted 11y ago
The answer you will get is not to the question "What is your ideal job?" but "What is a good sounding job that the candidate can pretend he wants that will cause you to hire him?".
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Don't bother, on the 22nd, it will probably be one of the top titles on Hacker News: "Remember this article that used to be exclusive on Apple News? Now you can read it!".
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If you really want to describe modern Java, you should probably mention RxJava and TestNG.
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Apple has less than 20% market share in the mobile and table business, no anti trust danger there.
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> Apple has the gall to go on the offensive with an app to assist people in abandoning the competition You are missing something so obvious you'll facepalm when you realize it: why didn't they do this sooner? If it was such an
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... if the user approves such access.
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More importantly to me is that Apple created such an app in the first place. That's a very defensive move, certainly not the kind of move you would expect from the owners of a platform who are comfortable in their lead and their superi
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And yet, Python 2 usage is still strong while Python 3 adoption has actually slowed down , and at this rate, it will probably stop being used completely while Python 2 continues to live on: https://www.reddit.com/r/pro

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