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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Which safety statistics? IIHS crash test reports or actual road statistics?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
That's certainly not a shining example of software quality. I also don't think it's fair to generalize about software quality for an entire country based on 1 or 2 examples.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Surely it would be to Google's advantage to scan as much as they can in the background for targeting ads, even if they actual search is activated on demand.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Which is likely going to be on and harvesting my data by default, just like gmail.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Sounds more creepy than anything else. Why would I want Google examining text elements in every app I'm using?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Keyboards, random conversations, people getting up etc. so much noise and so many distractions. I also do the earphones thing, but it seems to be contributing to long-term hearing loss.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
In our case it wasn't about enforcing the use of a subset of the language, but rather being selective about when to use more advanced features. Having the advanced features of Scala available has proven to be very useful for us, but we
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that it's a case of YMMV. There are clearly those who haven't had success adopting Scala. I've seen Scala used successfully by multiple teams, but I suspect a strong culture of code reviews may ha
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
With a location of "Pittsburg, PA"
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
SA, like any country, has a variety of issues. Check out: http://www.news24.com for a better idea of current issues.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
That's what my post was getting at, over-generalising about an entire continent...
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Ah yes, the good old republic of Africa. Who is the president of Africa?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Perhaps they shouldn't have given it virtually the same name then. I can understand that he had an expectation given the naming choice. It also means that this support is Windows only.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
> Apparently, one of the Armatas broke down during the Parade By all reports it stalled, and later drove away under its own power.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
> "There is still 1 month, 1 day, 6 hours, 55 minutes and 21 seconds until summer, which gives me a lot of time to learn new skills that you might need!" Awesome attitude towards learning new skills!
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
trunk = tree trunk
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
> Scala compiles too slowly. Otherwise, it would be more popular. For day-to-day Scala development incremental compilation etc. mean that a typical build in my IDE takes about a second. I think it has more to do with Java being the defau
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
It's worked really well for C# so far, so perhaps it's only one of meany factors which determine the success of a language.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
That's a very useful set of features, glad to see more of the features I'm used to in Scala (although obviously not the first to have those features) showing up in C#. It's still a bit of a stretch to say that C# has "ov
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Care to substantiate the accusations you're making so matter-of-factly?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
> Really? Then why not go after banks, energy companies, telecom giants...? Banks: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-01/europe-ban... http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
It's pretty crazy that they currently have the power/leverage to demand that of OEMs.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
Fair enough, but syntax-wise it looks like it was designed in the 80's or 90's. Some people see that as a good thing.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
"Only available in the European Union"
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
My condolences.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
Even with a big step like Java 8, Java is very very far from being comparable to more modern, expressive languages.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
Almost anything with "Go" in the title gets upvotes on HN.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
That's also one of the differences between Scala and Java. In Scala you have referential transparency, so you easily can switch between fields/properties and methods without changing the calling code.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
It's doesn't take long when working with functional code to never want to go back to loops.
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by thescrewdriver 12y ago
Java code tends to follow the JavaBeans naming convention even when not implementing beans. Scala version of your code: case class Article(title: String, author: String, tags: List[String])

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