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by msluyter 10y ago
Yes, that, and the quality of applicants tends to be higher for some of the less popular but more interesting languages. I worked at a company that had a large java codebase and was reluctant to try anything different for fear of not being
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by msluyter 10y ago
I suppose to some extent this is a matter of taste, but I've usually found the streams api to be clearer and easier to understand, although perhaps there's a bit of a learning curve. I think the win is especially large in cases wh
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by msluyter 10y ago
It is hopeless to expect voluntary transparency by the government... Well, not only that, but transparency rules create certain perverse incentives. If all emails are discoverable, for example, then people will simply tend to shift their
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by msluyter 10y ago
Adding to the varieties of other explanations countering your "one explanation:" 1.) Time. Although I'm (perhaps overly) sensitive to which foods are healthy and which aren't, I often find myself eating sub-optimally sim
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by msluyter 11y ago
Well, sure, but that's why you don't share project files. I think that if you do things correctly, your concern is mostly mitigated. My last job was Java/Spring. As someone noted above, you really don't want to be workin
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by msluyter 11y ago
Interesting. Are you familiar with IntelliJ? My experience has been that its Spring integration provides most of what you're asking for.
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by msluyter 11y ago
Re: "null != variable": I don't think it's necessarily confusing, it's just that usually we tend to think of the elements we're working with (variables, objects, functions, etc...) as taking on values, and so l
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by msluyter 11y ago
Related, the notion of "peak stuff:" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/consume...
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by msluyter 11y ago
I used this at one point when I needed a large synthetic "customer" dataset, and found the sample size to be somewhat limited. I had to munge first/last names with added random characters. But looking at it now, it appears th
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by msluyter 11y ago
I've been using nvAlt for a while. Very fast search and ease of use. Not sure how well it scales in the long run but thus far I've had no problems. Edit to add: Some other interesting features. You can sync to Simplenote automatic
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by msluyter 11y ago
I was unaware of this concept, but I think I've run across it independently in the context of music. I play the banjo and have noticed that if I'm trying to make a large left hand jump, I tend to do better if I focus on the fret I
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by msluyter 11y ago
Let's say I'm sold on Clojure (I am; I think it's awesome) and I want to convince my boss to convert a crufty Java 7 enterprise app to a better alternative. What is the argument for Clojure compared to, say, Kotlin? How diffi
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by msluyter 11y ago
I was just looking for something like this. How do I load external node modules into the repl? I tried "File->Add module path" but it didn't seem to work for me. Basically, having done an npm install of lodash somewhere,
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What personality makes a programmer?(digest.bps.org.uk)
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by msluyter 11y ago
I've been using this for quite some time and love it. My only minor complaint is that when redirecting to a file, it'd be nice if it defaulted to "--pretty=format" instead of "--pretty=none". (I always forget t
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by msluyter 11y ago
A couple of miscellaneous thoughts: 1) The problem that I've noticed with the traditional OO designs that I've worked with is that bits of similar functionality tend to get scattered about the code base. For example, the author cr
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by msluyter 11y ago
Any lawyers (or wanna be lawyers) want to chime in -- is your thumbprint protected in the same way? I can see how the 5th amendment prevents them from compelling you to reveal your passcode, but does it prevent them from grabbing your thumb
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by msluyter 11y ago
Not being much of a sophisticated investor (low cost Vanguard funds for me, thank you), I have a question: Isn't the latest common wisdom the notion that money managers actually underperform the market as a whole? http://mon
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by msluyter 11y ago
Just downloaded it and tried it out. Looks pretty nice, but the history view isn't populating when I try to use it for github enterprise projects (I did login successfully). I'm just seeing a completely black rectangle and no comm
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by msluyter 11y ago
I read some pretty bad reviews of the Galago. A full third of the Amazon reviews are one star: http://www.amazon.com/System76-Galago-UltraPro-Ubuntu-Laptop...
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by msluyter 11y ago
Yes, I've also noticed an increasing number of software bugs on my Macs. FWIW, I wanted to try out the Dell XPS "Developer Edition," which appears to be about as close as you can get to a Macbook level build quality in a linu
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by msluyter 11y ago
On the project I work on, we face a similar problem. We use H2 for an in memory test database, but now we're frequently running into the problem where we'd love to use a specific postgres feature (say, json support) that isn'
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by msluyter 11y ago
I did one of these when I applied at my most recent position. It took most of the weekend and actually it was a lot of fun. But I doubt I'd do it again if it required more than a few hours of my time. Any test that time consuming is ar
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by msluyter 11y ago
There should be a name for this phenomenon. It appears that any service that attempts to remain un-gated eventually will be forced to run ads in order to stay afloat. The ads become more prevalent over time, until an equilibrium is reached.
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by msluyter 11y ago
> I mean Maven really sucks Why? I think after a while one gets tired of using XML as a configuration language. It's verbose and not the easiest to read. Beyond that, we used to find ourselves in dependency hell with maven pret
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by msluyter 11y ago
Funny, I made a very similar comment recently: A concrete example we've faced. A certain operation requires writing data to N flaky services. You successfully write to N-1 of them, but the Nth fails. Now what do you do? If these N thi
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by msluyter 11y ago
A lot of nice things here. See my comment above for some similar concerns/desired features that also apply to this.
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by msluyter 11y ago
It's improved since the last time I looked at it, so good work. A couple of issues I ran into: 1) if you have an empty blank line after a query, you get a syntax error 2) an option to expand column widths to match column name would be
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by msluyter 11y ago
The Simple Programmer Podcast Javascript Jabber
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by msluyter 11y ago
The wikipedia article on b-trees suggests a variety of possibilities for the etymology, "binary" not really being one of them: After a talk at CPM 2013 (24th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Bad Herrenalb, Germ

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