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by randombytes6869 6y ago
> . We seem to do stuff that's out of the normal experience (Python to create thousands of individual reports on thousands of rows of postgres data per report) Sounds like you need somebody that knows Python and SQL, should be easy
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
I heard lack of effective management structure was a far worse consequence of Valve's unusual structure. Heard influence became based on connections and favors, not good results or ideas. Heard many good projects died, even ones that w
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
We have found H2 in Postgres mode to be the fastest way to test db stuff, at least in Postgres and Java. In Go you might lose most of the speed advantage since its not running "in JVM". It also doesn't support many of pg&#x27
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Java meets your requirements. It gets a lot of shit but there's reasons why its so widely used. The standard libraries + community are larger than Go, you can find a library to do anything. Standard library is huge and mostly great. Co
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
> There would be no A bomb without this, for example, nor US moon missions. These were mostly German weapons scientists brought to the US near the end of WWII. The alternative was being sent to Russia. Russia was brutal to PoW's so
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
> I seriously doubt this was ever an existential in the sense of the shipping cost itself destroying a business. I've read many e-commerce blogs with US sellers lamenting that they can't compete with China on $5 items because s
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Its not just a Rust problem, I've run into the same thing in Java and I'm sure it exists elsewhere. The only answer I can come up with is to keep your app cleanly divided into modules. There's some cognitive overhead but its
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Conspiracy, but I don't think the US ever stopped researching nuclear propulsion. There's too many advantages. They built a few working and miniaturized test engines in the 60's but never put them on planes? I don't beli
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Very true. IMO many people that hate XML config files just haven't used an IDE that validates schema. Its super nice to have auto-complete and property validation on config files, something not offered by JSON or YAML. A good reason to
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Very Java-esque name for the largest Java project there is. I like it. "Eclipse AdoptOpenJDK Adoptium" has a good ring to it. Reminds me of the SharedSessionContractImplementor I worked on last week for our Hibernate interface.
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
You can probably just check the referrer header and display a giant nag message to people coming from that business listing. "This website is not associated with company X which have been misrepresenting themselves by linking to my sit
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
That's far too optimistic about storage. For small off-grid systems, you need ~5 days of battery capacity to ride out lack of wind/sun. On a large scale you'll need less because you can move power from place to place. But sti
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
To those lamenting that they're scraping... Google is the biggest scraper of them all. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft. All the big boys scrape voraciously, yet try their best to block themselves from being scraped. Scraping is vit
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Java is very similar to C++. Its boring in the sense that most things have been around forever and really old code is terrible but you still have to deal with it because backwards compatibility is so good. If you don't consider Java bo
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
That doesn't make Java a bad choice for building new things
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
I haven't used XML in our Java apps in many years. Most of them don't contain a single XML file, unless they use Maven, then they have one.
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
IMO Ruby is already being left behind. HTTP/2 is a good example. Rails doesn't support it, and I can't find anything recent saying support will be added soon. Java is notorious for slow innovation yet language level support f
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
I think job descriptions are just marketing materials for developers at a lot of places. Advertising your COBOL just gets you people that want to make more COBOL. Every job I take, whatever the oldest crappiest technology mentioned in the f
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Switch to React if you can. I've been using Angular for years and the solution to problems is generally "more magic". Its so convoluted these days I don't think its even realistic to build an Angular app outside of angul
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Trust me, its the lack of standard library. Python and Java are both "batteries included" . You can write apps decently with just 5-10 dependencies if you want. Every JS app I've worked on has like 10-20X the dependencies of
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
> at some point you will have a look into your myriad of nodejs dependencies and see with horror that they rely on C++ extension This is a big selling point of the most boring languages of all, Java and C#. Performance is close enough t
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
This is a great idea!
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
For Deno this seems like a very good choice. Pick the good parts from Go and reuse them. I applaud Deno for going its own way with the module system though... That's been a hot topic in Go for a very long time
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Parsing minified JS takes up quite a bit of load time for most sites. Binary formats for VM languages aren't just smaller, they're many times faster and easier to parse and verify
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
This is actually how maven is for Java as well. the repo isn't official but its so widespread its defacto.
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
> I would bet good money that most of the management in charge of the websites that make up the web would not waste dev time on migrating to some minified JS file replacement, when webpack-style minifying works "just fine" and
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
A lot of the newer stuff in JS is great. The baggage is what bothers me. For all the flak Java gets for having ancient stuff, the old stuff in JS is way worse. Java cruft is better these days if you use 11+ with Lombok. Almost decent. You c
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
There's languages better than TS/JS for back-ends. I don't mind Typescript but I only use it because some flavor of JS is mandatory these days. The non existent standard library and pretty nutty dependency management makes JS
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
I don't think its physically possible to read this in the time since its been posted, but since people are commenting anyways I might as well join in. I've been using JS since the JScript days, and let me tell you it was horrible.
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by randombytes6869 6y ago
Deno is the Java-fication of JS. I'm sure there will be Node-like tide of "JS is better than Java now that we have X" even though Deno brings JS closer than ever to Java. Despite being cynical, I don't think its a bad th

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