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by stephen 15y ago
I don't buy HATEOAS--this notion that clients will be adaptive enough to take advantage of changes in the rel/whatever links seems unlikely. (E.g. I can't see a client going "oh!, there's a new business function I haven't seen yet, let me i
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by stephen 15y ago
I have the best luck staying on task by doodling--keep a pad of paper and pen on my desk, and while waiting for compiling/whatever, just draw. It's like being bored in class but still needing to pay some amount of attention. http://www.npr
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Git can now correctly push merges to svn(git.kernel.org)
2 points by stephen 15y ago|0 comments
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by stephen 15y ago
The startup I work for, Bizo, has had some clients doing similar things with our API: http://developer.bizo.com/documentation/bizaudience-api E.g. customizing their home/landing pages based on the business demographics of users (is this a
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by stephen 15y ago
I agree, just rendering is a server-side notion that obviously can work on the client-side, but I don't think is ideal. Web 1.0/server-side templates had to render and sling strings of HTML around because that's all you could do (Rails's RJ
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by stephen 15y ago
I don't use lift-the-web-framework, but after looking around at the scala json options, decided on and am so far really liking lift-json's package. Does any of raw string <-> JSON AST, or maps/lists <-> JSON (...IIRC), or ca
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by stephen 15y ago
> How useful is Scala if you don't need to do functional programming with a strong type system? Functional programming with a strong type system, IMO, has much wider applicability than just the esoteric mathematical abstractions (e.g. H
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by stephen 15y ago
Dispatch is so often used as an example of hard to read Scala code/operator overloading abuse, that I think it should be shuttered just for the greater good of the Scala community. That being said, programmers can over-engineer things in an
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by stephen 15y ago
Agreed, I'm not going to say Java syntax is awesome (it's not), but I think the "over-architecting" attitude you mention has done far more to drive people away from Java (e.g. the great Ruby exodus) than the syntax itself.
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by stephen 15y ago
Yeah, I can't believe JPA/most ORMs don't maintain both sides of a relationship. That sort of stuff should just work. I implemented my own ORM ( http://joist.ws ) a few years ago to solve this and my other JPA/Hibernate annoyances. It works
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Sane AJAX Testing in Selenium(draconianoverlord.com)
1 points by stephen 15y ago|0 comments
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Schema for JSON APIs(jschema.org)
1 points by stephen 15y ago|0 comments
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by stephen 15y ago
FWIW, GWT's UiBinder takes a similar, absolutely-no-logic approach to templates. No iteration even: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiBinde... Takes awhile to get used to, but it's nice to have all your logic in the c
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Why No One Uses Scala’s Structural Typing(draconianoverlord.com)
3 points by stephen 15y ago|0 comments
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A GWT Developer’s Reaction to Dart(draconianoverlord.com)
4 points by stephen 15y ago|1 comments
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by stephen 15y ago
This will give you r/1232: https://github.com/stephenh/git-central/blob/master/server/p... (It makes a tag-per-commit; I'm not saying that's necessarily a good idea, but if you really want revision numbers...)
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by stephen 15y ago
Huh. His IDE opinion surprises me; I use it on a daily basis and it actually is pretty nice now. Not 100%, but >80-90% IMO.
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by stephen 15y ago
Tongue-in-check submission as it mimics this post, currently at 70 points and on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567123 Which, IMO, are pretty basic aliases. Definitely good, but not front-page-of-HN good. Anyway, if
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Working with git? These aliases will save you even *more* hours(draconianoverlord.com)
1 points by stephen 15y ago|1 comments
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by stephen 15y ago
Posted a comment on the site, but to me the real win comes when you add grep to your aliases. That saves a ton of keystrokes, assuming you have deep directories in your project: http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2010/03/04/git-config.html
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by stephen 15y ago
(Also posted as a comment on the blog:) Groovy would have won the "Java.next" title by now if they weren't so stubborn about being a dynamic language. If they invested half the effort they've put into "IDE-time" static type inference/type c
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The Dynamic Code Evolution VM(ssw.jku.at)
5 points by stephen 15y ago|0 comments
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by stephen 16y ago
My amateur understanding is that excess glucose still leads to high blood sugar and so the resulting insulin spikes and fat storage. So it may be a lesser evil than fructose, but is not a panacea by any means. FWIW, I'm basing my current un
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by stephen 16y ago
Or my own take on an ActiveRecord-inspired ORM: http://joist.ws/ :-)
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Why I Don't Like Mocks(draconianoverlord.com)
1 points by stephen 16y ago|0 comments
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by stephen 16y ago
Shopping is a waste of time. Instead: * Find a favorite pair of jeans, buy 3-4 pair, wear them every day. * Find a favorite a t-shirt, but 4-5, wear them every day. * Ask for socks for Christmas. Solid colors are recommended because then yo
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New Feature Literals in Gosu (first class data binding)(guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com)
3 points by stephen 16y ago|0 comments
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S3fsr - FUSE file system for S3(github.com)
2 points by stephen 16y ago|0 comments
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by stephen 16y ago
Looks cool. RSS feeds would be nice.
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by stephen 16y ago
Self-aware? It took extremely blunt blog posts from the Quora review blog and TechCrunch for him to notice his behavior. And then in the very same blog post, he still did his annoying name-dropping thing: "I woke up in Davos, Switzerland",

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