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by laureny 13y ago
> I assume you mean in terms of hype? There is nothing wrong with hype if that hype is warranted, and Java certainly has an unmatched track record in terms of delivering solid, portable and easy to maintain code bases that power millions
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by laureny 13y ago
> The state of the Go ecosystem after only four years is astounding. Compare Go in 2013 to Python in 1995 or Java in 1999. Or C++ in 1987!" This comparison is more than unfair, It's more than unfair since they don't show a
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by laureny 13y ago
> Or do you believe in the other possibility: having a REPL doesn't matter as much as everyone thought? The importance of REPL is very exaggerated. Neither Java, C#, C++ nor C have one (and together, these four languages probably ma
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by laureny 13y ago
> it express an intent, see my previous message. Actually, it can express eleven intents, depending on where it's being used.
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by laureny 13y ago
> > the underscore (_) has six different meanings depending on where it's used. > no it has not ,it always express some kind of default parameter. You might want to refrain from commenting on a topic you don't seem to kno
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by laureny 13y ago
> Scala has very little syntactic rules There are a lot of counter examples to this claim but just to keep this short, I'll go along with your claim. A downside of this is heavy overload of keywords/symbols. For example, last t
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by laureny 13y ago
Probably the most promising language on the JVM in my opinion, one that stands a reasonable chance to see wider adoption than the faltering and overly complex Scala. Kotlin feels like an incremental improvement over Java that I can wrap my
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by laureny 13y ago
Thanks for the correction. > I grant you the IDE and the backward compatibility points, but those speak more to it's immaturity than it's "intrinsic superiority". Scala is ten years old, the fact that it's still
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by laureny 13y ago
> And it is widely agreed that Scala is much less verbose and easier to work with than Java. > ... > - it [Scala] can be verbose sometimes, > - Second problem is its learning curve. Scala is not easy to learn: the language has a
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by laureny 13y ago
> Making tests part of language syntax is an interesting idea. It's been tried many times before and it has always failed. A few reasons: - It clutters the code - If you need simple tests, asserts suffice - If you need more sophisti
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by laureny 13y ago
> As a hirer, I'll always ask what they make now. How would you react if the candidate gave you the answer I typically give in this situation? ("my current salary is irrelevant, here is how much I want")
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by laureny 13y ago
That's a great answer which should kill any further question in that area instantly, I'll make sure to remember that. Thanks!
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> Why do you think that those doing research inside Typesafe are steering the language in a direction that is user hostile? Macros come to mind. It's a feature that completely circumvented the SIP (and was later retrofitted into it)
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by laureny 13y ago
That's part of the problem: Scala needs fewer features and more focus in other areas, such as tool support (IDE's mostly) and backward compatibility. The problem is that Scala's leadership is conflicted: you have Typesafe try
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by laureny 13y ago
Good points, but personally, I have never played along with the "We'll pay you just a bit more than what you are making right now". When the question "How much do you make right now?" comes up in an interview, I ans
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by laureny 13y ago
I'm guessing they are saying this because younger people are more likely to work for free.
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by laureny 13y ago
What's this guy asking? I don't read stupid Hacker News comments.
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I wish the talented team behind Replicant would choose to put their energy toward something that will actually be useful, because as it stands right now, Replicant is guaranteed to never go anywhere. The main problem with Replicant is that
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by laureny 13y ago
So they rewarded you by sending you merchandising for their company. I was hoping that at the very least, they'd offer you a job.
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by laureny 13y ago
Perceived price certainly varies greatly depending on the buyer. A professional musician will not think twice about paying $50 for an awesome tab software, but to me, a hobbyist guitar player, paying more than $20 would be a stretch. This h
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by laureny 13y ago
Very clever. I wonder if you could make this official with something like this on the home page: "If you are interested in our product but you can't afford it, please send us an email explaining why you can't afford it and we
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by laureny 13y ago
> but the idea that Android as we know it is open-source and the ultimate freedom is absurd. Nobody claimed that Android was the ultimate freedom, but it's the most free mobile operating system that is successful in the market plac
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> It's just a small motivational line with no agenda behind it. Just because you don't see the agenda doesn't mean it's not there. How do you explain that half of the comments in this thread are not about the content
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by laureny 13y ago
The simple fact that you have to defend this section should be reason enough for you to just remove it since it distracts from the rest of your document. You don't realize it but your words are extremely condescending toward women, you
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> I want to convince you that you can program, that you can do math, that you can design car suspensions and fire suppression systems and spacecraft control software and distributed databases, I know you are trying to help but you need t
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by laureny 13y ago
> We camouflage tanks. We build stealth fighters. A lot of the army forces are wearing camo fatigues 100% of the time while in combat zones, I'm sure they would have a lot to learn from you. Sarcasm aside, security through obscurity
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by laureny 13y ago
First Vuze, then uTorrent. It looks like the life cycle of any popular torrent application is: - Starts very light, bare bones, downloads torrents and that's all - Gets bloated with more and more features that nobody wants - Partners w
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by laureny 13y ago
> Not much has changed in a major way, but there are improvements all around. Seems to sum up Apple as a whole for these past couple of years, and probably for the foreseeable future as well.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Flash has been in decline since the first iPhone, but is still used to track people with unkillable cookies and to make obnoxious ads. And games. A lot of games. As long as the major companies making money off Flash games don't mo
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by laureny 13y ago
> This is part of a bigger company wide strategy to offer software updates for free for their products, a strategy they pioneered with iOs. Pioneered? Android updates have been free since day one.

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