theshadow

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by theshadow 15y ago
Ruby does not get rid of semicolons or brackets. Heck, you can write Java/C++ style curly brace code in Ruby if you wanted.
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by theshadow 15y ago
Unlike Scala it compiles down to Java. Depending upon how readable and sane the generated code is, I could see people working in organizations where Java is mandated write code in Xtend and then commit the generated Java code or use the gen
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by theshadow 15y ago
This is how almost every movie about an apocalyptic mass pandemic starts.
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by theshadow 15y ago
To be honest I cringe whenever I hear programmers refer to themselves as "engineers". Maybe it's because here in canada engineering is regulated and you are not allowed to call yourself an engineer by law unless you posses an an engineering
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by theshadow 15y ago
I'm running Firefox 7.01 on a 4 year old machine with Ubuntu 11.04. I routinely have 30+ tabs open an never had a problem with speed. Maybe your friend's computer has other woes
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by theshadow 15y ago
Ofcourse it's the victim's fault! The grandma who's been writing a letter on word loses it after an unexpected blue screen of death, ofcourse it's her fault. A guy gets stabbed at 2am at a bus stop; clearly the guy's at fault. Shoulda known
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by theshadow 15y ago
Not a spotify user but I feel gross and icky just reading about this. This is so transparent. I wanna take a shower
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by theshadow 15y ago
What has this got to with the concept of DevDays other than blatant fanboyism and a plug for github?
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by theshadow 15y ago
Please tell me you are making the exact same post about Chrome's version inflation? "Political Reasons"? please elaborate. Mozilla announced months ago that it was not using version numbers for marketing purposes and they announced recently
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by theshadow 15y ago
The point of code completion is not just to save typing (although that is desirable benefit), code completion helps you browse around a new library that you're unfamiliar with and read the documentation right in the IDE. I don't know how I