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by stephen 14y ago
I generally agree, although for my taste I don't like how Angular allows declaring complex conditions inside the view as inline expressions. Admittedly, it is succinct, and I'm being pedantic, but it seems like keeping the expressions in th
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by stephen 14y ago
> your Setup() function is going to be 1000 lines long and likely incomprehensible Have you worked on a system that used these principles, and found them to be inadequate, beyond an off-the-cuff read of this blog post? I ask because I h
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by stephen 14y ago
Huh; did the full switch over just happen? Out of the blue 1-2 days ago, a DTD hosted on dl.google.com ( http://dl.google.com/gwt/DTD/xhtml.ent ) started semi-randomly timing out and hanging Eclipse. (This was due to the Eclipse UI asking "
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Professional Software Engineer Exam coming in April 2013(ncees.org)
61 points by stephen 14y ago|58 comments
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by stephen 14y ago
You can enforce workflow via post-commit hooks if you get a bit creative, e.g.: https://github.com/stephenh/git-central/blob/master/server/u... Unfortunately I haven't done a lot with this project in a few years since github doesn't allow
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by stephen 14y ago
Boo is awesome; it's meta-programming/macros look awesome. Selfishly, I wish the JVM was its primary target and not .NET.
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by stephen 14y ago
So, if MS is doing so well, why didn't this exploit stop at the Java process level? (Not trying to rag on MS.)
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by stephen 14y ago
Given what I've seen lately, this is just false. The Java team under Oracle, despite my trollish expectations, is actually doing really well. That they've inherited a huge, complex codebase is unfortunate. I think any program or VM, Ruby, F
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by stephen 14y ago
Nice. +1 for avoiding JPA. I hadn't heard of Ebean, I'll look in to that. Shameless plug, but Joist is my take on a "post-Hibernate" back-to-the-basics ORM: http://joist.ws/
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by stephen 14y ago
Looks pretty awesome. Avoiding ORMs that assume a chatty connection make pragmatic sense, and they note the code complexity trade-off of having to explicitly fetch the data up-front. I like that they basically added aggregates to the SQL sc
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by stephen 14y ago
> I made a mobile web app You missed my point, ironically by perpetuating the obsession around mobile. I meant why can't it just be a regular desktop webapp. E.g. not require a phone to access. I don't really see myself sitting in a cof
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by stephen 14y ago
I would not call this "Financial Freedom through Badassity" (his site's tagline), it's more like "Financial Freedom through Being Frugal". Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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by stephen 14y ago
I know mobile is hot right now, but does this really have to be an iPhone app?
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by stephen 14y ago
Sounds like event sourcing [1] applied to databases. The server-side transactions reminded me a lot of VoltDB [2], which also has server-side transactions and turns out was a previous system Abadi was involved in. My naive impression is tha
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by stephen 14y ago
Wow, range types with non-overlapping constraints: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/rangetypes.html CREATE TABLE room_reservation ( room TEXT, during TSRANGE, EXCLUDE USING gist (room WITH =, during WITH &&) ); IN
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by stephen 14y ago
> During the migration, there were a number of fields that should have been set in Mongo but were not Imagine that...this fascination with schema-less datastores just baffles me: http://draconianoverlord.com/2012/05/08/whats-wrong-with
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by stephen 14y ago
> You have to be very smart to be able to design a normalized constrained DB well. Eh, nit picking, but I think "very smart" is overkill--I think "just smart" people should still be capable of designing normalized constrained schemas. I
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by stephen 14y ago
Yeah, I don't get the anti-schema sentiment either. Coincidentally, I just wrote up my thoughts on it yesterday: http://draconianoverlord.com/2012/05/08/whats-wrong-with-a-s...
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by stephen 14y ago
> -file system access is convoluted with HTTP handling: req.response.sendFile() I haven't looked in to it, but just guessing this is probably so that it can do 0-copy sending of files (e.g. doesn't have to buffer/stream the contents thr
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by stephen 15y ago
GWT has done the "run the same code on either client or server" for years now (2006) and, IMO, it's not a silver bullet. Beyond trivial validations (not null, length check), most of interesting the business logic you run on the server assum
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Type safe config in Scala(robey.lag.net)
6 points by stephen 15y ago|1 comments
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by stephen 15y ago
jschema and jschema-rpc both look much nicer: http://jschema.org/ http://jschema.org/rpc.html
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by stephen 15y ago
Where I work (i.e. write code for money, to satisfy Ted Nyman's requirement that my opinion matter), our reaction was exactly the opposite--we're very much looking forward to having macros in Scala. If this was a more esoteric language feat
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by stephen 15y ago
...damn, I was wrong: https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
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by stephen 15y ago
Note that the Google Developer account on G+ mentioned that they are going to avoid the "registration rush" this year. Supposedly there will be plenty of time between the I/O registration opening and any deadline, and AFAIK it's not going t
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by stephen 15y ago
Hi Ray. You make good points, more than I can justly respond to right now. Briefly, I did not know GWT was initially not used widely within Google--I had assumed it was from near-day-1. The re-open sourcing sounds cool, although it would be
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by stephen 15y ago
I'll call bullshit. Either they care about external developers or they don't. This is saying they don't. Google's culture seems insular and elitist. Besides Guava, they did the same thing with GWT (which, as much as I love GWT, didn't work
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by stephen 15y ago
I was surprised to see Typesafe throw its weight behind Play. While I understand they need a web framework in their stack, and Play is more RoR-ish than Lift (which makes it more marketable I think), I dunno, some of the gymnastics Play 1.x
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by stephen 15y ago
Having spent a lot of time looking at/comparing/building Web 1.0-style server-side frameworks, I've since switched to GWT and really like the client-side model. It'd be hard for me to go back to munging HTML/data back/forth from the statele
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by stephen 15y ago
> Of course not, nobody thinks that. I'm pretty sure Fielding does, see "improved on-the-fly": "The transitions may be determined (or limited by) the client’s knowledge of media types and resource communication mechanisms, both of which

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