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by jmaker 3y ago
Much appreciated indeed. Though I’m unconvinced by that particular piece on Medium. There’s no mention of their purported trading workloads, reads rather like a pile of SEO keywords spiced up by a couple charts and appears more like an atte
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by jmaker 3y ago
As long as the deps haven’t all moved to the JDK without Unsafe, I think the ecosystem is tainted by such deps for the foreseeable future. In case you guys conducted an ecosystem survey, where are we at now? Lots are still running on JDK 1.
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by jmaker 3y ago
I’m unaware of HFT systems running entirely on a JVM. Do you know of such cases? Safe Rust isn’t fast enough for HFT in my opinion. What kind of HFT? Amusingly, though somewhat tangential, I observed a rather simple Go implementation (nothi
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by jmaker 3y ago
I’m all for trimming the stdlib and rectifying mistakes, but have you evaluated how much of the ecosystem, particularly the data processing systems, such as Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, HBase to name a few, depend on it? You say “integr
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by jmaker 3y ago
In my experience, in most cases you realize you’re imminent to reinvent a wheel, you start sifting through the packages available and check GitHub, see what one or another package is up to, then I check whether the functionality that I need
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by jmaker 3y ago
Opposite to Manning, O’Reilly proper, and No Starch Press books, Packt’s aren’t even properly edited. Apress books are the worst in my experience, really zero editorial work noticeable, lots of grammatical and logical mistakes, many obvious
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by jmaker 3y ago
Sometimes the general purpose implementations just don’t cut it, depending on the data access patterns, the hardware, etc., neither do they exhibit sufficient tuning capabilities. Sometimes people find out how embarrassingly inefficient a s
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by jmaker 3y ago
Yes in Go I think I’m mostly tempted to reinvent the wheel every few lines of code, for the sheer lack of stdlib abstractions I’ve grown used to.
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by jmaker 3y ago
Depends strongly on how you define “know”-in that context I perceive it as referring to having or gaining some basic conceptual comprehension of the concept or algorithm, particularly in order to eschew reinventing the wheel in a squared sh
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by jmaker 3y ago
A wonderful UX on my mobile device. I personally am fond of Microsoft’s Fluent UI, but I can’t get their websites to work in Safari—either it doesn’t render anything (Blazor) or it manages to render but it’s just not mobile ready (React). T
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by jmaker 3y ago
Yes, VS has been terribly slow all the years. Having 64g RAM doesn’t always help much. Rider is fine on 16g, though the most recent release turned a bit sluggish after updating the SDK from RC2 to final, likely something misconfigured on my
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by jmaker 3y ago
Microsoft just introduced some features taken from Rider in Visual Studio, who’s catching up with whom? I think it’s a good way of competition.
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by jmaker 3y ago
Kotlin is used in many places where Java is or could be used. Some teams prefer Kotlin over Java for new Spring or Quarkus or Vert.x or Micronaut projects. Kotlin is relevant everywhere outside Google’s realm, too. I’m unaware of that back
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by jmaker 3y ago
In my experience Uno and Avalonia UI are quite experimental still. And I totally dislike their looks. I spoke to Mike on the topic of theming, hope they introduce something more modern. To be fair, Avalonia UI is only becoming multiplatform
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by jmaker 3y ago
I am very concerned too, we rely on Spring and RabbitMQ heavily. I’m going to call a halt on Spring and Rabbit for all new projects until the M&A fog dissipates. We run our own tech radar, likely to set the entire VMware stack on hold f
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by jmaker 3y ago
With sealed classes and explicit inheritance you have it in Java now
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by jmaker 3y ago
Had also subscribed to Premium but got annoyed by the ever bugged app on mobile, crashing way too often. Moved back to browser. Couldn’t care less as they just take my money but can’t provide a good experience. Just as a ransom to remove th
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by jmaker 3y ago
I wonder if this will be welcomed by the community over a couple next years, but if it’s just another PR stunt for a PM or PO like ML.NET, I doubt this is a good idea to include it in .NET proper.
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by jmaker 3y ago
Totally, and the With annotation is a bliss. Hope to have it at a syntax level someday, just like in Kotlin. In addition, you can decompile Lombok annotations straight into your code proper and change what you need, Builder methods for vali
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by jmaker 3y ago
Unfortunately with many gotchas to be aware of all the time…
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by jmaker 3y ago
Monads don’t go by the name, they must satisfy the axioms. How many people do it right? Even in Haskell lots of folks forget to check the axioms. Also, monads are hard to compose. I think there’s no reason to be like Cats or Arrow. It’s all
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by jmaker 3y ago
Depends on your requirements. If your config complexity is getting beyond manageable, the benefit of something more reliable is apparent. Type safety clears lots of common bugs no test suite would be certain to filter out. How complex shoul
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by jmaker 3y ago
How does that analogy apply if you’re trying to justify that one should simply give up that “convenience,” which has just been a basic notion of car driving? In my view it’s rather an inconvenience. I’d rather not have to manage that concer
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by jmaker 3y ago
In addition, there’s an immense mental burden on the driver from having to keep track of everything related to charging and planning your trip ahead. And battery capacity degrades over time, too. I have yet to find a reliable wear and tear
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by jmaker 3y ago
In addition, in many countries and charger networks, there’s often a surcharge past 5th hour or so plugging in, charged by the minute, resulting in a prohibitive cost overnight. So 11kW peak power times 5 hours times efficiency of .8-.9 giv
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by jmaker 3y ago
Dhall is superb, https://dhall-lang.org
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by jmaker 3y ago
While I agree with you that such complexity is expensive to manage, I think it primarily depends on the expertise of your team. If you can foresee the need for Rust, say, and your team knows how to manage its risks, and it is financially vi
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by jmaker 3y ago
Perhaps we’re looking at different time frames or different locations, but as for your last paragraph, I’ve observed a qualitative shift in .NET job postings over the past two years. Several years ago, lots of jobs used to be posted by the
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by jmaker 3y ago
When I was looking for a new smartphone a few years ago I stumbled across the SAR figures and the data set published by the German agency responsible for it.[^1] It was important to recognize that some older Xiaomi phones had higher figures
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by jmaker 3y ago
The German agency responsible for this states it’s 2 W/kg, see https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/emf/mobile-communication/protec...

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