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by laureny 13y ago
Age: Scala - about 10 years old Kotlin - not yet released
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by laureny 13y ago
> Scala is not C++. That was not the point. The comparison is that Scala is to Java what C++ is to C. Powerful and flexible but with a lot of baggage that ends up making it impractical.
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by laureny 13y ago
Same observation, functional programming languages (even pure ones) have side effects, they just encode these side effects in types.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Remember, part of android success was that people was able to install cyanogenmod in their old windows phones. Not really, no. Only a tiny fraction of Android users even know what cyanogen mod is, let alone install it on their phone. T
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by laureny 13y ago
> The comparison with functional programming ("no glue and cuts" and "no state") Er... what? What does "glue and cuts" mean in functional programming? And functional programming has state, like most other pr
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by laureny 13y ago
> I think marrying yourself to a proprietary language like C# is a mistake, not because of any particular C# language feature, but because it's yet another product of Microsoft's extreme case of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome That&
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by laureny 13y ago
> I don't accuse them of not saving the world, but Ruby and Rails lost a great opportunity to dominate the web community. They didn't lose this opportunity because of Twitter, they lost it because the fact that Ruby is dynamica
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by laureny 13y ago
> I think that all the metaprogramming magic that Ruby allows is at odds with speed. I don't think so, Java and C# also have metaprogramming (reflection, class loading, bytecode manipulation) and they are still plenty fast. Ruby&#x2
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by laureny 13y ago
> Twitter was in a nice position to better Ruby in terms of performance, though they chickened out and escaped to Scala. Actually, they escaped to the JVM, and if their job reqs are any indication, they hire massively for Java engineer p
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by laureny 13y ago
> The server is temporarily unable to service your request Performance is apparently not Rails' only problem.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Only Microsoft realised the hardware didn't matter, software was the main game. Yes. This was one of Bill Gates' many strokes of genius. After just one year of Traf'o'Data (Microsoft's precursor), Gates saw tha
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by laureny 13y ago
Really? http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/162410
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by laureny 13y ago
Pretty sure no interviewer ever asked for a production ready site, this is just hyperbole from you and the author of this article. If I were a front end developer, I would much prefer to be asked to write a quick, tailored to fit within the
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by laureny 13y ago
I never said I was excited about Android nor that it will be popular forever. I was just observing that Google's strategy regarding Chrome OS makes no sense to me in the presence of Android.
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by laureny 13y ago
The random element in backgammon is inconsequential: a good player will always beat inferior players over several games. What makes good players good is not that they know how to win when they have a good roll but the fact that with regular
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by laureny 13y ago
Before Android, I would have been super excited to read this, but now...? Seems like it's yet another technology that Android will soon be steamrolling.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Sorry about that, should have only popped up if you left the page That's still unnecessary aggressive and irritating. Like most "Are you sure you want to leave this web site?" dialogs that pop up when I close a tab. Not
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by laureny 13y ago
Nice try, NSA.
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by laureny 13y ago
I have, it's definitely an interesting language, more ambitious than Kotlin and more bold too (lot of new keywords, disjointed types, etc...). I prefer the most conservative, slightly incremental Kotlin myself, but it's purely per
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by laureny 13y ago
I would use Kotlin for Android over Groovy, because it is - Much more lightweight and faster than Groovy - Statically typed - Offers about the same level of expressivity as Groovy (closures, etc...) - Much, much faster than Groovy The only
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by laureny 13y ago
> No doubt that works well in some cases, but the average YouTube video is not such a forum. Yes, and that's the mistake that Google is making: thinking the problem is procedural ("Just have people log in with their real name&q
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by laureny 13y ago
> The problem is that anonymity leading to great conversation is disproved by reality. How ironic that you are posting this on Hacker News. Or pick reddit for another flagrant counter example to your claim. Uncivilized discussions don&#x
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by laureny 13y ago
Your analysis is correct but you're coming to the wrong conclusions. It's clear that going in, Marissa needed to fire a lot of Yahoo employees, she just needed to find a way to do that and she found two: 1) revoke remote privilege
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by laureny 13y ago
> Hmmm I was rejected this past April and then sent a reply back saying something like your loss. Not exactly an attitude that will impress VC's, and you'd be surprised at how small a world high tech is.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Six days before the interview, my laptop crashed and we lost our entire demo. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the qualities of the poster as a software engineer. You'd think that for a project that might change the rest of yo
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by laureny 13y ago
I tried both exploded deployment (artifact) and through Maven (tomcat:run), no difference: IDEA pretends it has reloaded the new code but it hasn't, so I lost trust in it completely and now I just restart all the time. It's much m
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by laureny 13y ago
"Beneath Apple DOS" by Don Worth and Pieter Lechner was my bible back then. Reading this book absolutely blew my mind and opened up a world of possibilities, not mentioning a much more intimate knowledge of how copy protection wor
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by laureny 13y ago
Yes, JRebel is great but not free.
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by laureny 13y ago
I like IDEA a lot but I ended up going back to Eclipse because it's so much better at hotswap than IDEA. It's baffling to me that the talented engineers at JetBrains still force me to restart my servers all the time for changes th
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by laureny 13y ago
> So we are pleased to see Go being used for the job it was designed for, This sounds a bit like revisionism. Rob Pike made it clear that the initial motivation for Go was the slowness of the C++ compilation. Go was clearly initially tar

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