kasperni

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by kasperni 7y ago
Author Bio: Thirty four years, and continuing, speaking at most of the major universities across Canada, focussing on topics pertaining to the interplay of God, philosophy, and science. This includes a few hundred talks and lectures as well
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There is also https://xtclang.blogspot.com/ Java, has started going down this route with the new module system and Lookup objects, however, this is mainly for restricted field/method/constructor access. I do hope
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Yeah, I was a bit harsh. But they already posted an announcement post about their Christmas calendar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700759 I don't see the need to go into individual posts on top of it. In the
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by kasperni 7y ago
That was a complete waste of time. To sum it up: don't rely on the format of a generic toString() method. Prefer country.getName() over country.toString(), even if toString() returns getName().
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Argh, you couldn't just take the time to read the actual article. "The ownership model in Verona is based on groups of objects, not like in Rust where it's based on a single object.
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Which, is also why that method for delivering applications has been deprecated for a couple of years. Now, the prefered way to ship a Java application is to bundle the runtime and the application into a single installer similar to, for exam
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Yet, we still a lot more new languages on the Java platform. Then say .NET which was designed to be polyglot.
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These projects are all alive and well. And both Netty and Jersey (JAX-RS) had their latest release less than two months ago.
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It is ironic because the poster claimed that no one want one size fits all languages anymore. And then he goes on to describe how they replaced Java with Javascript.
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> Java was a one size fits all language. Nobody wants that anymore. That sounds like a very opinionated claim. Can you back it up with any kind of evidence? Also, am I the only one that finds it kind of ironic that you describe how a scr
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> but the Java9+ "update" has just deprecated too much of the Java ecosystem Such as?
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> Like, using a language that can compile to JVM byte codes to integrate with existing code bases, yet can also be compiled into native code on x86/64 and ARM/64 for linking against? Any language supported by GraalVM ( https:&#
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Because he literally controls everything, from http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-w... "The S-1 detailed the extent to which Neumann controlled his company, and had benefited per
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Richard Wrangham wrote a book on this "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human"
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nymag had a really good article about the WeWork circus http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-w...
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-w... is a really good read. Neumann does come away as a bit over the top: > “I rarely give away my power, and when I do, it’s to my wife,” who he
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Except, that is not how the body works.... Here, for example is a recent study by Harvard Medical School detailing how partipants on a low-carb diet burned more than 250 calories more then people on a high-carb diet. https://www.
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Nothing comes even close to having fewer kids [1]. [1] https://globalnews.ca/news/3595511/climate-change-carbon-foo...
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> #2 is nice, however we already have this feature with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA This hardly sounds like a standardized feature. > and the runtime aspect of JPMS access control is hardly worthwhile; it's not security (reflection c
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In my opinion the US is far behind with regards to retail banking. For example, in the US they are still arguing about real-time payments [1] while we had in years in most countries in Europe. We will probably have cross-country realtime pa
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The site ahead contains malware Attackers currently on marty.alain.free.fr might attempt to install dangerous programs.... on Chrome
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XLOOKUP is a replacement for both VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP
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That's a great idea! Let's try and deploy this 'left-pad' function that everyone can use... But seriously, I know his description is a bit different, but I think NPM has shown that such a model is really difficult to mai
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The srticle says > The co-founder of DeepMind, the high-profile artificial intelligence lab owned by Google, has been placed on leave after controversy over some of the projects he led. So I think we can rule most of your suggestions out
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I agree. But the headline was not referring to a concept (Dependent Types) but specifically to "Dependent Haskell" as the future of software development. Making it sound like we all are going to be Haskell programmers in the futur
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> Why Dependent Haskell Is the Future of Software Development I find this hard to believe, considering probably less then 1-2% of developers in the world have any clue to what this article is about.
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> For example, Office 2010 support life comes to an end on Oct. 13, 2020. There will be no extended support unit, ala Windows 7, for it. When it's done, it's done. I don't see a problem with this, it came out in 2010. They
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> A majority of daily code deals with data transformations I think you confuse _your_ job with what everyone else does. Do some people mostly work with data transformations? yes they do. But do some people mostly work with system program
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You might want to note in the title that this quiz is only applicable for residents in the US.
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Yuri Deigin, the CEO of Youthereum Genetics wrote a fascinating article about why Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake. It is a long read in 3 parts [1][2][3] but reads like a really good detective story. [1] https:&#

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