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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
All I can say, is give it a watch. Funny and heartfelt writing, regularly featuring a song from a contemporary folk artist. I think Zach Braff got much of the credit, and took some of that sensibility to the big screen with Garden State.
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
My theory is that it isn't just music - what people often prefer in most categories is the "familiar". When you're young, it's all new so we explore, but after a while we gravitate towards things that are like thing
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
I totally agree with you. Sometimes I think programming has ruined doing things in the real world - I’m spoiled by the idea that I can slap things together, then iterate to a refined result. But if you do that with anything else, like cooki
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Wow - nice to hear and thanks for the compliment! My contact info is in my HN profile - send me a note, maybe we should connect on LinkedIn.
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
I think the biggest flaw of Swing is that it didn’t provide or promote a standard ‘Controller’ class. I have seen tons of Swing code over the years that is a spaghetti code mess of UI creation, initialization, updating and responding. So my
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
The only real problem with Swing is that there was never a version 2. If it had been separated from AWT, updated some of the APIs and given a modern look-and-feel, it would still be relevant today. JavaFX is nice, but it broke too many conv
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
This is very nice! It is easy to get lost in most raw Swing code, but this seems to result in hierarchically defined code that keeps nested UI elements in context. I can almost visualize the resulting UI from the code.
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
I just wish FaceBook was presented to me like HackerNews: - My Favorite Group is meeting next week at a local restaurant - My Neighbor is on yet another amazing trip with his perfect family - My old classmate found a preachy article
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
This will seem unrelated, but I’ve often heard people complain about going to the gym: “I hate going to the gym because everyone else is so beautiful and I’m out of shape”. But distorts the reality that most people don’t go to the gym. And
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I don’t think that is specifically a Java thing, you can find over-engineered code in any place and time. Maybe Java bringing OOP and a large standard library inspired more than its share of this. Having said that, I just did a sting at a J
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
The abacus and calculator analogy is a good one. I've been thinking about ChatGPT in terms of standard language libraries. So far, I think that is what ChatGPT is good for - solving small, self contained problems that are building bloc
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
C, ObjC, JavaScript.
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
I've read that, however, I do sometimes see submissions with text that also have links in the text. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906591
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
How do I make my submission URL a link? Adding <> brackets doesn't seem to help.
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Pave the on-ramp to Java, but can we also string up lights?
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Nice article! I'm a big fan of TeaVM - it's nice to see this coverage.
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This is very nice - congratulations! I like that you are thinking about both the product and the content, it really shows your broader vision. I taught an after school program that started with Scratch and Greenfoot, and I understand some o
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Isn't there a simple way to pair a markdown file with an html/JS file so that the md file is rendered? Myfile.html: <script>loadMarkDownFile()</script> Myfile.md: ## Markdown in the browser!
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Funny you should ask, this just showed up in my youtube feed yesterday: "What was Coding like 40 years ago?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r83N3c2kPw
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Can’t believe I’m the first/only one to post these: - Upgrade by Blake Crouch - Biography of the Pixel by Alvy Ray Smith Like Project Hail Mary, Upgrade is the kind of book I really wanted back when I was a michael crichton fan. His la
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Here’s my thought: support drag and drop to the desktop so you can use this to easily transfer files between machines. Copy/paste might be interesting too.
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Check your timeline: Apple bought NeXT, then Steve Jobs returned, not the other way around. There are many reasons why NeXT beat out BeOS. NeXT spent years making NS ready for the enterprise. Be OS was a great technology demo, but it had ye
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
I would recommend reading the ridiculously old book, 'How to win friends and influence people'. I have heard about this book for years but always assumed it was smarmy and out of date. I recently read it, and while it was definite
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How do you save figr docs to the cloud?
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
https://javaparser.org/
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
If you have like-minded buddies, you are way ahead of the game (even if you don't have an idea). Choose something that seems fun - maybe something you would want to buy/use yourselves and start working on it. Borrow 8 hours a week
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Well this isn't helpful for those of us that care about Java in the browser. In any case, JPro is really more "Java projected in the browser" (or like twitch/remote-desktop). It's a shortcut with significant drawbac
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Agism is real, but probably unintentional. By definition, most people hire subordinates, and in their mind they picture someone some number of years their junior. When an older person applies, they just don't fit the image they have cr
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Fortune favors the brave, but I would say don't quit the day job. Try to 'borrow' 20% to work on your hustle as a hobby project - the company will almost surely get that time back in increased quality and productivity in your
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Great advice! I call that the "Mad Dash" - just try to get something working in a quick and dirty fashion. I often don't understand the problem until I work on the solution.

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