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by pswenson 11y ago
there is a kotlin build system http://beust.com/kobalt/home/index.html
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by pswenson 11y ago
how do you do conditionals or loops in maven?
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by pswenson 11y ago
Intellij is amazing. Note that jetbrains built resharper to de-suckify Visual Studio. And many of the refactorings that we all take for granted were invented by Jetbrains.
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by pswenson 11y ago
you use one of the many alternatives
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by pswenson 11y ago
what? jetbrains.com (intellij, appcode, pycharm,webstorm, rubymine etc) sublime text atom vim emacs eclipse
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by pswenson 11y ago
sadly and inexplicably, youtube still uses flash for video on the desktop...
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by pswenson 11y ago
Tough situation. If you want to stand up for yourself you could go over your boss's head. Risky, could get you fired immediately, but could get your boss fired/disciplined and save your position. You could consult with a lawyer f
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by pswenson 11y ago
Century Link has 1 Gigabit available in Denver now, but it's $150/mo :( Everyone needs at least two choices..
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by pswenson 12y ago
alternative?
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by pswenson 12y ago
read up here... https://www.elastic.co/blog/resiliency-elasticsearch/ they had a major data corruption bug last year but have taken measures to correct it. I asked if elasticsearch could be a source of truth at
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by pswenson 12y ago
how is this a useful comment?
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by pswenson 12y ago
java's impl of lambdas is much uglier and feels hackier than kotlin. java forces everything into a stream + checked exceptions are problematic. also java 8 doesn't have eatures like string interpolation, default params, etc.
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Unchecked checked exceptions (2012)(timboudreau.com)
1 points by pswenson 12y ago|0 comments
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by pswenson 12y ago
yawn.. Maybe around 2020 we'll get some useful stuff like string interpolation, long strings, default param values, and multiple return values!
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by pswenson 12y ago
I assume you meant statically typed, rather than strongly typed. Swift has this: var airports: [String: String] = ["TYO": "Tokyo", "DUB": "Dublin"]
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Discouraged Developer(tbray.org)
45 points by pswenson 12y ago|10 comments
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by pswenson 12y ago
Wow, this is the definition of nanny-state. This rule should be removed, not tightened! What's next? I don't make enough to trade stocks? To gamble? To spend above my means?
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by pswenson 12y ago
you mind sharing your chef recipes? did you use chef to automate jenkins too? there are too few good chef examples on the web....
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by pswenson 12y ago
"Redesign your code so it only interacts with such code at the edges." yeah, and what if you don't have time to do this? sometimes mocks are appropriate because of schedules and other priorities. Much better to mock than to
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by pswenson 12y ago
Good points... but what happens when you walk into a legacy code base with few tests that wasn't designed to be tested and is tightly coupled to a component such as a database?
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by pswenson 12y ago
I've found OSGi to be an absolute nightmare. Classloader hacks is not the way to solve Java's dependency problem, it needs to be baked in the language IMO. I think it's one of those ideas that sounds great in theory, but in
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by pswenson 12y ago
I think you are falling into the trap of thinking you can usually recover from an exception. Exceptions are usually caused by one of two things: 1) system error (no more DB connections, hard drive full, etc) 2) a bug neither of these are r
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by pswenson 12y ago
1) try introducing a Checked Exception in a commonly used method. Soon you'll be updating 100s or 1000s or methods. 2) checked exceptions don't play well with interfaces (APIs) for similar reasons. any interface user must change
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by pswenson 12y ago
hmm I wonder why this got created? http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/ I wonder if anyone said this about HTML when javascript was introduced? once a system starts getting complicated you inevitably n
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by pswenson 12y ago
that's absurd. 1) I can't embed code in XML. 2) Why should I use a format that takes 5x as much space to declare something as a more usable format?
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by pswenson 12y ago
for normal dependency management you shouldn't need to write code. I've never done any android dev, so I can't comment on that. declaring a dependency is literally like this: dependencies { compile group: 'commons-
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by pswenson 12y ago
w/ regards to gradle using groovy.... in gradle I can easily add in variables to my dependencies, I can write conditionals (if System Prop X then include dependency Y). Basically anything you can do in code, you can do in gradle very e
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by pswenson 12y ago
I'd say Gradle is the least awful of the 3 major build systems. Ant degrades into an unmaintainable mess as soon as any complexity enters the system. XML is a horrible scripting language, simple imperative constructs are very awkward
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by pswenson 12y ago
I'd like to hear thoughts on CheckedExceptions in part 2. IMO, they are a disaster - most projects degrade into all methods having a "throws Exception" clause. But I'm not sure if there is any consensus on how the Chec
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by pswenson 12y ago
It seems to me that if you are writing a lot of mocks, you are probably retrofitting tests onto an existing code base. If your code is written to be testable you usually can avoid mocks. That being said, if you are writing a test on an a

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