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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but regarding your examples, am I the only one that prefers the way lambdas and streams are implemented in Java? First of all, the way lambdas are implemented at the JVM level was a big improvement on wha
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
The government might and probably will change this rule. I can imagine that after the first couple of accidents where the algorithm decides to kill N pedestrians to save 1 driver, the government could switch to a "utilitarian" poi
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
I like to skim through their gitter channel from time to time, to see what they are up to. But lately, it's not clear. Does anybody here have more data on this? What's next for ceylon? What's the status with the intellij plug
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
I think that a lot of people that are against higher/progressive taxes or see these level of inequality (income and wealth) as a good thing believe in the "self-made man" myth. But that is just a myth. When someone "make
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
>There were holdouts in Europe originally, some central banks were slow to adopt fractional reserves. They were trounced by the economies of other European nations and their superior access to liquid capital. This is in no way a proof. A
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
I can think of at least 3 reasons: - it's a fun project, if you're into that sort of thing - dart has a VM, so you can run server side applications on it - more bragging points for ceylon, as it confirms their design as a VM indep
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
Well, the community here basically discussed the topic in detail 2 days before, when Gavin announced the 1.2 release[0]. Now, on why things are the way they are currently, here are a couple of reasons. - so far, the ceylon team focused thei
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
How is the ceylon integration going? I've been waiting for that before diving into vert.x 3.
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
There are some places where monad composability would improve your code but in general, at least the way I see it, you can replace a scala for comprehension with a set of IF statements, each IF eliminating a wrong value (null, exception, et
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
Not the best place to mention this, but I never understood why, at least when talking with the functional oriented people, the union types are not explained as providing first level support for the Option, Either and the Try monads.
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
I hope they'll redo some of the documentation with this upcoming release. Every time I read it, I am amazed by how comprehensive it is but still manages to miss some very important points. Like the fact that on the main page, the link