srnm

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by srnm 16y ago
http://www.scala-ide.org has come a long way and can be usable and useful. I recommend a clean install of eclipse 3.5.2 with the latest recommended build of scala-ide. Try things out without installing additional plugins except your favor
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by srnm 16y ago
Good luck finding a decent one bedroom apt in Sydney for $200/wk. Most places you'd want to live (eastern suburbs, inner west, northern beaches) will start at $350/wk. To get something nice in Alexandria or Newtown will be $450/wk plus.
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by srnm 16y ago
The Java Tutorials are great for people new to the Java Platform: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17409_01/javase/tutorial... Of course, the focus is the Java language... but there are lots of practical examples.
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by srnm 16y ago
The Flash Player 10.1 release moves to a single codebase for all supported platforms. I would guess part of the reason for the delay is that they are rewriting large chunks of it to work consistently across very different hardware platforms
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by srnm 17y ago
We've been using Wave a bit at work. It's nice that a ping (IM) can turn into a threaded chat can turn into a document. Editing, with change bars, is great. It's also great that you can add someone to a wave "late" and they get to see the c
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by srnm 17y ago
It's interesting that the Haskell project is getting good results. Go - http://golang.org/ - doesn't use LLVM because they claim it is "large and slow". Search for llvm on http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html
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by srnm 17y ago
"Flash is shitty, nonredistributable, closed-source, restricted-platform, proprietary, and patent-encumbered" All true except the "shitty" part -- it's actually a nice little VM with some good technology and skilled people behind it. Unfort
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by srnm 17y ago
He seems to be trying to become a "center of gravity" in python-land by being controversial. Why not just work with the community in a productive non-confrontational way? Lots of opportunity for pop-psychology here... but best to let it pas
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by srnm 17y ago
Reading the NYT with the new AIR-based reader is a pleasure. The fluid layout, typography, and especially the no-lag browsing, changes the experience to the point that I find myself starting up the reader every day -- and the NYT was not my
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by srnm 18y ago
I can recommend carbonado, http://carbonado.sourceforge.net/ , if you don't want/need a full ORM, and prefer something similar to activerecord. It doesn't hide the relational model, and has just the right level of abstraction with a nice