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Haoyi makes libraries that are very easy to use, modelling them after popular Python libraries. If you're interested he recently wrote a long blog about the future of Scala being exactly this approach; make easy to use libraries for pe
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In the case of the github phishing it does have a valid certificate and the host name is something that looks legit enough it will probably fool a lot of people
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I've been playing around with the code, you can just comment out the bits you don't want to run in the main function... // buff.s1number(); // for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) // buff.s2bann
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Yes Wartremover, Scalastyle, Codacy, Scalazzi all help with this to varying degrees
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Scala does a pretty good job too, with the help of build plugins you can avoid null polution (which normally comes from Java libraries) pretty well.
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I think it is a question of degree. AGI could be 100 years or 1000 years away; maybe it's something beyond our capabilities entirely. But we will probably find ways to augment our own programming tasks to the extent that what humans ne
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1. Capitalism does not succeed on its own. The success of the west is combining free markets, capitalism and shared values about individual rights and freedoms. 2. Sure blame America. Wait didn’t America send food aid to China when it desc
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In this article are 10 object ways the world is getting better. Your "meme" is not capturing the gradual, and quite amazing, lifting our of poverty of hundreds of millions in the last few decades. The failures of communism in Russ
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The entirety of recent history?
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There are so many ways to make money without going near Facebook that this is a terrible excuse. If you have good content that brings in viewers there will be a way to monetize. Nobody is driving good content off the internet, collegehumor
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Ultimately not everyone will want to take part and the ones that do will form a clique that is in the know. I’ve experienced this and other unofficial cliques over the years. People who smoke was one; people at all levels of the company for
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Nope. It provides an API so that you can make apps that can do things like read your bank statement, get the balance, and many other things.
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Some feedback: the simple leaderboard and percentage chance is a good indicator and in my case the choices were relevant. I would suggest to make it more useful you have a click through on each country that highlights the pros and cons of t
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The money is coming from disaster relief funds. The alternative is to pay to repair the home over and over
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By game programmers you probably mean AAA console game programmers. I was once one, and I know that those games have to account for every byte of memory. Garbage collection has not only cpu overhead which can be unpredictable, it also requi
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Insane 60% discount doesn't sound so insane when you are getting life in a country where you can't have your assets seized by the government and be put in jail at a moments notice. Your kids will have great schools and live in a p
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I think this is a great idea and I'm biased because I came up with the same idea when brainstorming Slack new features in a job interview. One thing that concerns me about it is the amount of confidential information that people bandy
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I'm not sure I'm in favour of rent control in the first place, but as a Vancouver renter I have seen vacancy tax really help with both house prices and rental availability. It also seems to be a fair tax, you are being taxed on a
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Which is why vacant property tax makes sense for popular areas
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I'm sure you're happy with Clojure and I'm not going to try and convince you Scala is better but you have some misconceptions. Firstly Scala does have a couple of REPL's, the best being Ammonite which is mentioned below.
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Speaking as a professional Scala developer I can’t explain why you’d use one over the other. They are very different yet I know people that successfully develop and ship software using one or the other. I think it comes down to personal pre
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99% of the time Scala programmers don't have to worry about variance. I've been using Scala for over 5 years and it's never been more than a cursory concern, the defaults usually work fine. You just have the flexibility to wo
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I don't think it's the simplest language out there but its parametric polymorphism is quite straightforward
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It comes up in Scala. The solution is to have notation to specify the variance of types.
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Well the point is there’s no discomfort and it feels good so no need to change them
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Emacs is not for everyone but it is definitely not a relic, it's constantly updated and many people are spending time working on the editor and on packages for others to use. Whilst most of your points are subjective I can still give m
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Pretty much everything that insects do is beyond our current AI and engineering tech. Ignoring the "engineering" feats that biological beings perform such as replication, respiration and turning other plants and creatures into the
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It's not fair to lump all video games into one category and then malign them. Video games consist of a wide variety of forms and business models. Even the ones that people will think are exploitative, other people enjoy playing them an
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There are ways to make sure that your GET requests are not cached. For example in the case we're talking about here the server sets that URI to have "Cache-Control: private; max-age=0". Now sure, a proxy could simply ignore
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I absolutely agree with your points, and that's good advice as long as your application works by modifying resources of a single type with each request. In my specific case we wanted to reduce round trips to the server by using compoun

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