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by timclark 12y ago
I'd rather use a careful selection of libraries that provide me a single executable to run than have to work with OSGI or a JEE container.
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by timclark 12y ago
Sun removing the C compiler from Solaris pretty much made it obligatory for my whole university department to install GCC in the early 90s.
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by timclark 12y ago
Lords West, Blair, Carlile and King have inserted a large amendment to a bill at the last minute yet again. This appears to be very similar to the last amendment although not identical. They withdrew the previous amendment last week.
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Snoopers charter amendment is back in bill again (again)(gigaom.com)
5 points by timclark 12y ago|2 comments
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by timclark 12y ago
Apache Kafka describes the ordering of message arrival to consumers in its documentation, I think it is even covered in the introduction ( http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction ).
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by timclark 12y ago
The Daily Express routinely uses Fahrenheit when reporting heatwaves or blizzards on the front page - most of the other UK tabloids rarely have a weather focused front page.
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by timclark 12y ago
It works for me, It looks like you've just pasted a ? on the URL.
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by timclark 12y ago
Is someone bypassing the duplicate submission logic by editing URLs. Earlier submission here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036515
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by timclark 12y ago
Scala came at the problem from the wrong direction. F# started with the functional pieces of ML/OCaml and added the 'OO' stuff in record types resulting in a simple and powerful language. Scala seems to have started with the
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by timclark 12y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/02/feature_the_future_l... - has an interesting perspective on speaker design and the human auditory system.
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The future of loudspeaker design(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by timclark 12y ago|0 comments
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by timclark 12y ago
Uber ran full page ads in London's free newspapers yesterday, so it looks like they were planning on benefitting from the controversy.
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by timclark 12y ago
Move nearer to where you work then!
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by timclark 12y ago
If I compare the lines of code between JUnit without annotations and JUnit with annotations I usually have less lines of code without annotations and I don't find it bothersome to name my test method correctly. Annotations in Java have
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by timclark 12y ago
JAX-RS annotations aren't really composable - functions usually are, although I haven't looked at the Spark implementation to find out. With plain functions if I need to wrap requests or responses I just wrap the functions. With J
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by timclark 12y ago
I believe the empty struct is marginally smaller than a boolean.
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by timclark 13y ago
He was a big influence on me working in technology and becoming a programmer. Thanks for all those BBC programmes in the early eighties.
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Obituary for Ian McNaught-Davis(theguardian.com)
2 points by timclark 13y ago|1 comments
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by timclark 13y ago
(eq leiningen clojure) and I like it that way
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by timclark 13y ago
The last time I used SBT, which was well over 3 years ago, the SBT file wasn't really valid scala - this may not be the case now.
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RIP Pete Seeger(bbc.co.uk)
16 points by timclark 13y ago|0 comments
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by timclark 13y ago
URLs you can laugh at!
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by timclark 13y ago
Excellent, I think if I reread this before turning every page of Pierce's Types and Programming Languages I might understand it a little.
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Royal pardon for Alan Turing(independent.co.uk)
12 points by timclark 13y ago|2 comments
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by timclark 13y ago
Also, don't edit your bash profile when drunk! In my youth I did this and it took 3 weeks to return to normality - I didn't know about source code control in those days.
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by timclark 13y ago
There is no major difference between a nullable type and a maybe - the big difference is between non-nullable types and maybe. If you have a maybe I in my ignorance can assign a null to it, if you have a non-nullable type the compiler will
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by timclark 13y ago
Some of the smaller decisions the Ceylon team has made also seem nicer than the Kotlin equivalent. For example I prefer the Ceylon "if(exists x) {}" to the Kotlin "if(x != null)" - even though the Ceylon is further from
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by timclark 13y ago
Kotlin is a very nice replacement for Java but I really like the ambition and thought being shown by the Ceylon development team. I sure do hope that they get an IntelliJ plugin completed sometime in the future.
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by timclark 13y ago
Would that be clojure?
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by timclark 13y ago
To incompletely quote Rob Pike: "If crypto is so hard that only one implementation is allowed to exist, it's crypto that needs to be rethought" https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/0za-R3

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