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by kagakuninja 4y ago
You could have been building apps on a cheap Mac Mini; even cheaper if bought used. You (like me) choose to buy an expensive MacBook Pro. Back when I developed iOS apps, I experienced a lot of pain (especially when everything was covered by
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
Yeah, other than the fact that Biosphere II completely failed to be self sustaining, then sure, it resembles what a space colony might look like. And you are assuming there are no resource constraints on the sizes of those domes; Biosphere
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OOP does not require mutable state. OOP has its origins in imperative languages, and so in the past OOP often involved poor management of mutable state. I am a Scala programmer, and our code mixes OO and FP. Almost all of our classes are co
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
I believe the term Dependency Injection was coined by Martin Fowler, as the meaning of the pattern name Inversion of Control is less obvious. I'm going to assume that Martin Fowler has quite a bit of experience, although you might accu
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
Yes, that was me during the dotcom boom. When I decided to get a new job, I had 2 offers after an intense 2 weeks of interviews. However, once I was in my 40s, it became considerably harder to get a job. I'm now 59, and my career has n
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
I switched from C++ to Java 20 years ago, and never looked back. Although I've been using Scala the last 7 years.
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Conveniently ignoring the extreme cost of nuclear power. The power companies simply do not want to invest billions and then wait 7+ years, assuming there are no project delays or cost overruns (which there always are). Renewables and natura
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
As a Scala dev, I had a similar belief as you: Scala using companies seemed to have higher calibre programmers. Until my current job at a major Telecom. The code is all Scala, but written by a bunch of ex-Java devs. I have made attempts at
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
The cost to get old-school retail software on the shelves would set you back far more than 30%, not to mention all the hassles involved in physical distribution.
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
Java Futures are lobotomized. What is really nice is to treat Futures as monads (as in Scala, and FP languages like Haskell). Then you can chain them together using calls to flatMap aka bind. Then you can use for-comprehensions (or the equi
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
Welcome the the club, mate. I'm a tail-end boomer (born 1963), and missed out on most of that gravy train boomers had. Apparently we are all selfish right-wing assholes. Boomer hate is stupid. The enemy are the elites, corporations and
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
No more burdensome than using capitol letters (camel case), underscore (snake case), curly braces or quote marks. Been using Scala for 7 years, and it has never even occurred to me this was a "burden".
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
I have been using C and related languages since 1980. Switched to C++, later Java. Then about 7 years ago, I went all in on Scala, and have never looked back. Something like "i: int" is superior (at least in Scala), because the ty
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
These feel-good statements ignore the fact that ancient COBOL was based entirely around global data and GOTOs. There were no block structures or loops. You kind of had procedures (I think), in which programs can call other programs. But you
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
Ironically it was Reagan who started the gun control movement in California, because the Black Panthers decided to exercise their constitutional rights to openly carry guns.
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We had a separatist movement, it was called the Civil War, and did not end well for the separatists. US states do not have any legal mechanism to exit the union, although Texas claims it has that right. We do have a lot of nut jobs, particu
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by kagakuninja 4y ago
While true, California also has the infamous Proposition 13, designed in the 70s by conservatives to starve the state of tax income. One of its provisions is that tax increases require a 2/3 supermajority on any tax increases enacted l
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In addition to the ban happening in 2035, most people are charging their cars late at night, when there is surplus power. Although commuters may want to charge while at work. BTW, for the people shitting on California's ban, people see
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That experience was mine, and I believe most of my college gamer friends.