jvmboi

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by jvmboi 3y ago
I am fully remote and have been for a long time but I don't trust productivity studies, especially if they just find what everyone wants to hear anyway. If the market can do anything then it that has to be optimizing productivity. Ever
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by jvmboi 3y ago
My sneaking suspicion is that the real reason that everything is so slow is that noticeable loading or processing times give the software a feeling of heft. It strokes our ego as programmers because if something takes a while to complete th
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by jvmboi 3y ago
I prefer Gradle but I do agree with this assessment. Maven is really rock solid and dependable and once you have a POM that does what you want it will keep doing that for the next decade. I think if you have a project in an enterprise setti
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by jvmboi 3y ago
Gradle scripts are just programs so it's impossible to vouch for every single gradle script that exist. I mean you can just write if( Random.nextBoolean()) { project.delete( fileTree(project) ) } And del
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by jvmboi 3y ago
It's been a while since I used maven but if I recall correctly the reason for that is that javac (java compiler) actually doesn't do incremental compilation. It was such a problem that eclipse (the ide) had it's own java comp
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by jvmboi 3y ago
So easy to say, so hard to do. With heroic effort I can maybe lock down my routers, my kids devices, all devices in my house and they can just go to a friends house and see or, maybe even purchase, every single thing that we[1] have deemed
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by jvmboi 3y ago
Apple TV has a show called "WeCrashed" centered around this company. I enjoyed it immensely and wholeheartedly recommend it. https://tv.apple.com/en/show/wecrashed
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by jvmboi 3y ago
Is it really a new feature to have the most traveled path be comfortable? I wouldn't agree. I think whoever is in charge of Java should be conservative and careful but what I would just wish is for them to give the developer experience
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by jvmboi 3y ago
Streams are fine and Java is clearly evolving in a good direction but what makes me tear out my hairs is that they needed 7 years to add a toList() method to streams. This is so typical for the way that the Java language evolved. Ergonomics