oldjavacoder

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Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
52 points by oldjavacoder 4y ago|90 comments
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
Another similar take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_... .
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I've self-hosted my personal email for 25+ years, at a variety of ISP's and multiple IP's over the years. It's not fully automatic, not cattle, my pet. It takes focus and effort. I do it because I like the independence a
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
Unity was OK once the global menu was disabled. Today I use KDE. It lets me configure it the way I want.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
"Fork-and-pull isn't the final form of development workflows." Actually, like the wheel, I think it is the final form. When artificially sentient machines are writing code for us and someone or some thing pollutes or corrupts
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
"What if it was possible to have a local build system that would run tests etc and provide a cryptographically secure hash proving that the tests passed" On who's system? Your? Mine? Someone else's? The purpose of CI is
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
That's the issue I have with it, it's not a feature.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
"This is of course defeatable" Yes, which is why I don't use IPv6. https://blog.apnic.net/2022/01/31/defeating-ipv6-prefix-rota...
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
"IPv6 has had privacy built in for years now, on every OS available. Your inbound address will remain static and possible MAC address derived, but unless you're hosting anything on it (or disabled your firewall) your network traff
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
Yes. Actually no, not disable, I use Local-Local, there's a rare application here and there that needs to see an IPv6 stack is available then connects normally over IPv4. Google and anyone touting IPv6 can take IPv6 and have a nice day
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
None of the computers I own personally use IPv6. IPv6 is a bad idea. IPv6 is a straight connection from the Internet through everything in the network, right to the individual machine. Give my IPv4 and NAT or turn the Internet off.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
"The bottom line is that both sex crimes and gun use are about violence and power." Thank you for making it easy to ignore the remainder of your blather.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/18/state-department-hi... "State Dept. finds no ‘systemic’ classified violation in Hillary Clinton private-server emails" ... "38 individuals committe
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
What's truly astounding is that Windows and Mac have developed their own Linux like distribution managers over the years indicating it's probably far better than the proprietary crap they created in the first place.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
From what I've seen, .deb is still king over rpm, appimage, flatpak and snap.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
Also multiple gigabytes of space in /snap and not knowing when or why an app is updating or what it will do to the machine.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I have no interest in snaps, flatpak or appimage. I can't stop my phone's apps from updating whenever they feel like it without breaking many of them. I can and do control software installations on my machines.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I like SonarQube for removing ambiguity. If SonarQube is set to fail the build at lower than a certain percentage of coverage or too low of a grade in Maintenance then it gets fixed before the PR even gets filed. Assuming the code is proces
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
It makes the assumption the reviewer is correct and shuts down any chance for a reasonable dialog.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
The word "must" should only be used in the Military. Anywhere else, it is profusely out of place. In its stead, I recommend the term "requirement" and then cite an actual reference by the PO or someone officially represe
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
Using "socially retarded" is a huge red flag to me, about you.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I agree with "Don't defend a point to win an argument or double-down on a mistake.". I disagree with the juxtaposition that ego is bad, i.e. "no ego". Ego is defined by Oxford as "a person's sense of self-
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I prefer "Should we..." both as a coder and when I review code.
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Greenland sharks live up to 500 years(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by oldjavacoder 4y ago|0 comments
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I watched Margin Call. The huddling that goes on between the higher ups and the peons when the chips are down is what JIRA does for companies every day. If the firm in that movie had been using JIRA (and it it were real life and not a movie
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
Nothing in the article content, however suggests the author had the competency to teach or lead. Everything in the article does suggest the author thought they were hiring experienced programmers on new programmer salaries and were amazed a
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I tend to agree but note that there can be as much variability in the quality, accuracy and precision of reference documentation as in many answers on SO.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
You're the parent commenter not the OP. The commenter was referring to the OP (Original Post) i.e. the posted article.
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
I think of computer scientists as people who are deeply involved in principles of computer science and I appreciate them, but from my experience working with them on occasion; they have a difficult time comprehending how to write software t
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by oldjavacoder 4y ago
"We put virtual machines inside Linux, and then we put Docker inside virtual machines..." Hold my beer.

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