trailfox

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Alternative search engines to Google?
3 points by trailfox 13y ago|7 comments
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by trailfox 13y ago
I don't really use Cobol, just illustrating a point :)
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by trailfox 13y ago
As is clear from the article there are many dangers of sticking with outdated technology. Resist change enough times and eventually it becomes virtually impossible to find anyone with the knowledge or the willingness to maintain your ancien
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by trailfox 13y ago
I write all my web apps on Cobol, with formal specifications for every piece of code. This Java/.NET/javascript/Rails/Python thing is just a fad. Everyone will come round back to Cobol, wait and see. Mark my words...
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by trailfox 13y ago
Perhaps a good sign that they are getting clobbered with traffic?
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by trailfox 13y ago
Hopefully they fare better then the talented Kin engineers...
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by trailfox 13y ago
Our team's experience was extremely similar. I almost did a quick check to see if any of my co-workers was on HN and had your username. Uncanny.
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by trailfox 13y ago
> "Scala and its supposed (largely academic) benefits" Perhaps you would like to discuss the "academic" benefits with the likes of Twitter and Foursquare? > "it just doesn't do anything that Java can&#x27
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by trailfox 13y ago
It's perhaps better to look at other examples such as Twitter [1] and Foursquare. The Yammer issues largely focused on extreme edge cases for performance, which have been improved in 2.10. It's not hard to write Scala code which r
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by trailfox 13y ago
The IntelliJ Scala plugin is actually very good. We didn't have any strict conventions, just code reviews and good taste. Our devs didn't have any major trouble, but your experience may be different.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Java is simpler than both C# and Scala, yet it is more disliked than both (see recent HN polls).
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by trailfox 13y ago
Fortunately they saw the light and moved off of the complexity of C# then...
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by trailfox 13y ago
In my experience it's pretty easy to find Java developers who can be productive in Scala. They already know the class libraries and the tooling/JVM.
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by trailfox 13y ago
The list was limited to languages that developers actually like. Java is widely used, but not particularly popular as evidenced by recent polls here on HN.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I expect Go to take a large bite out of Ruby and Python and a nibble of of Java.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Static typing + type inference is a powerful combination. Go, Scala and Rust are particularly appealing as the mix expressiveness with good performance.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I'm interested to see the effects of the spray optimization work making its way into Play.
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by trailfox 13y ago
It also supports raw SQL...
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by trailfox 13y ago
Very irritating, had to follow the link to another article to find the actual country: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130513-w-afate-a-3d-printer-... Another one of those "Republic of Africa" articles.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Local policies also affect other countries. Different provinces, different cities, different schools, different policies...
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by trailfox 13y ago
The US is a country. France is a country, so is Germany. How is that "not fair"? Should France's results be broken out by province or Australia by state?
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by trailfox 13y ago
Yahoo doesn't scan your mail if you opt out of the customized advertising.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Yahoo + Adblock + customized ad opt-out and you never see any ads, and you don't have google reading your mail.
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by trailfox 13y ago
The Java language itself is pretty verbose. There's a reason why "trendy" developers on the JVM have long since moved on to Scala.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Perhaps you could shed some light on my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426192
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by trailfox 13y ago
Creating a LinkedIn account was by far the creepiest thing I've ever experienced when signing up. I signed up using email address A, and when I signed in I saw suggestions for "people you may know", but it included people I h
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by trailfox 13y ago
Didn't Sun have an experimental MVM about 10 years ago?
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by trailfox 13y ago
Ruby and Java were both released in 1995. It's now 18 years later and MRI can't keep up with a 1998 JDK. Could be a long wait...
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by trailfox 13y ago
On modern server hardware memory is seldom an issue, but I would agree about the culture of complexity BeanSingletonProxyAbstractWorkerListener
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by trailfox 13y ago
Speaking of Sinatra-inspired web frameworks on the JVM have a look at Scalatra: http://scalatra.org/ https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra

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