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by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah... I've also worked on corporate Java projects with no Ant, Maven, nor hand-rolled substitute, where the build process was to download the dependencies' jars from the internet manually into /lib.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Attack integer linear programming problems in business Yep, this can be lucrative if you find a company with a genuine need for it. The company I work for has recently seized an opportunity to apply a mixed integer linear algorithm to a s
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by kyllo 12y ago
Throwing their code on github, releasing cross-platform applications, and making it free to upgrade to Win10 is a big step in the right direction. They should also make Windows itself open source and just sell enterprise support.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Usually somebody jams some sort of runner into a Maven project as a different build step or something Like this? http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/
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by kyllo 12y ago
Task running is more what Ant is for, isn't it? Maven is more of a dependency management tool than a task runner. A lot of Java projects use both tools together for builds. I've never used it, but MSBuild sounds like Microsoft&#x2
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by kyllo 12y ago
Does Typed Racket give you a way to run your whole program through a typechecker without executing the code? Because catching type errors at compile time is a major benefit you get from a static type checker, that you wouldn't get from
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by kyllo 12y ago
I don't think he's conflating modules with objects. He's saying that if you have (class-based) objects, you don't need modules because object classes already provide superset of the functionality of modules. In particula
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by kyllo 12y ago
I'd pick Campbell's, that 2.77% dividend yield is nothing to sneeze at when interest rates are this low.
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by kyllo 12y ago
All markup languages converge toward Turing completeness, just like all programming languages converge toward Lisp. Just use a homoiconic language--a language where code is data and data is code--and you won't have these kinds of probl
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by kyllo 12y ago
If you've reached the point where HR is actively trying to find a way to fire you, that probably means you royally pissed off someone in a position of power, and your use of company equipment for personal emails is the least of your
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by kyllo 12y ago
Just like you respect a romantic partner who is firm with you and has boundaries, more than you respect one who's a total doormat and lets you trample all over them.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Well yeah, not having a String type is kind of a deal breaker for web programming.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Right, there's a huge impedance mismatch between COBOL and Java, but couldn't you say the same for any other modern PL? I don't see how migrating COBOL to Python or Clojure or Haskell would be much easier than migrating it to
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by kyllo 12y ago
I work at a company that is in the middle of a massive COBOL -> Java migration project. The core transaction processing system has 1.3 million lines of HP3000 COBOL that is pre-compiled to 13 million lines of Micro Focus COBOL, so that
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by kyllo 12y ago
The public company version of this is like a buyer at one company starting a service provider as a side company and then using his authority as a buyer to award himself a contract. It's a conflict of interest and any publicly traded co
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by kyllo 12y ago
The worst is LinkedIn, which will send you an e-mail with article links it it, and if you click the links it takes you to your browser, which does the thing that xkcd comic describes if you don't have the app installed, but if you do h
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by kyllo 12y ago
The split you speak of has already happened on mobile, that's why we have "apps."
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by kyllo 12y ago
Tableau's design is pretty tasteful.
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by kyllo 12y ago
And she was getting a bit frustrated and worried — that by clicking on something, she was going to install malware or not be able to return to her story. This is how the news site makes their money and the reason why it's free to vie
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by kyllo 12y ago
If you aren't a multi-thousand user customer, Salesforce's sale folks don't take you seriously and it's hard to feel like you mean anything to them. That's because it's just as expensive for them to close a d
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by kyllo 12y ago
The syntax itself is such a low hurdle to learning the language it hardly merits complaining about, especially given how drastically the Rust core team has simplified the syntax of the language since its early days. It's not particular
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by kyllo 12y ago
Sort of, at least in the sense that you can eval JSON from JS code rather than having to parse it yourself. This is one of many language concepts that JavaScript cribbed from the Lisp/Scheme family of functional languages.
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by kyllo 12y ago
By "inside the build" do you mean in the git repo? Because there isn't really a such thing as a "build" for a Python web app, it's a dynamic language. It's not like Java where you'd have to recompile
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by kyllo 12y ago
It really depends on the environment and culture. In Python web apps for example it's very popular to keep project configuration in Python dicts and lists, which are just Python code (as opposed to using something like YAML or JSON for
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah I can see an argument for having development engineers and production engineers so that the devs writing new features can focus on that without getting distracted by production issues. The production engineers do monitoring, config man
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by kyllo 12y ago
Do you use a dependently typed language in production?
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by kyllo 12y ago
the main use case for java is server-side programs that run for days or weeks between restarts, so it's optimized for that use case. Unfortunately for the folks who still have to use Java desktop software written in Swing.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Steve Yegge wrote a blog post about this a few years back that I found eye-opening. The whole nasty "configuration" problem becomes incredibly more convenient in the Lisp world. No more stanza files, apache-config, .properties fi
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by kyllo 12y ago
Ugh, you're right, and this is exactly why I hated group projects in school. 4-6 people taking credit for the work of 1-2, and everyone gets the same grade.
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by kyllo 12y ago
You can easily witness organizations that have crossed over the technical debt event horizon, from which they have no hope of reaching escape velocity.

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