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by sfjailbird 13y ago
I wouldn't say incredibly well, more like a passing mark. In fact I would compare Spring to Maven: It gets the job done, it's probably even the best of the alternatives, it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I find that for many of the
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by sfjailbird 13y ago
Spring represents all that is wrong with Java. Its main selling point is that it is not J2EE (shallow praise) yet it retains a lot of the awfulness of J2EE, such as XML just for the sake of it (so now you need heavy tool support just to mak
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by sfjailbird 13y ago
For the curious, 'smørrebrød' is a Danish kind of deli offering consisting of rye bread with different kinds of toppings. (Bohr of course referring to the Danish physicist Niels Bohr) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B8rrebr%C3%B8d It's
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by sfjailbird 13y ago
The article's playing down of heroin withdrawal was very strange. I have sat outside the door of someone withdrawing from heroin and they might as well have been playing The Exorcist at full volume in there. This goes on for days and usuall
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
No, Obama is cool! He plays basketball and does reddit AMAs! And he's black, too!
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
What is Google public stock backed by? It buys no influence and yields no dividend, and Larry and Sergei have said it will stay that way, yet investors are happy to pay $800 for a symbolic piece (costing 25 times the share of earnings it re
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
BitCoin reminds me so much of the early days of the internet; the ingenius technology, the promise, the hype, the misconceptions, the rampant ill-informed speculation. And of course the few neat things it could actually do, with a promise o
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
Seems to me the more valuable bitcoins are, the more attractive it is for vendors to accept them as payment. And the more vendors accept them as payments for real stuff, the more attractive and established they become as a currency. Also, c
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
I would love to have Heroku add this web interface to the default PostgreSQL package: http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
There are some less than flattering accounts of Elon Musk. I personally haven't yet seen a reason to subscribe to his cult, except that he's put money into some worthwhile ventures. In fact the paranoid part of me assumes that a fair effort
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
Insurance companies offer this in some countries.
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by sfjailbird 14y ago
I wonder how long before they just put mandatory tracking chips in cars, rather than monkey patching it with expensive OCR machines on the road and in patrols vehicles.