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by ubertaco 11y ago
What's the advantage of Jooby over Spark[1]? The latter seems more concise and doesn't require the use of initializer blocks[2] (a not-very-well-known feature of Java). [1] http://sparkjava.com/ [2] https:/&
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by ubertaco 11y ago
I forgot that I had that extension until I clicked "comments." I had a couple of moments of confusion around sentences like "I had a conversation with my Snake Person daughter...."
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by ubertaco 11y ago
By "a powerful type system", I mean a type system that allows you to flexibly express more-complex constraints in a way that the platform (either compiler or runtime) will catch. For example, Javascript's type system (such as
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Scala is more flexible (for better or worse) and less verbose (for better or worse). Because of this, it's possible to be much more expressive in Scala and it's possible to be much more terse/obtuse. I like Scala's pow
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Before they published this blog post, I was mildly annoyed at having to type "$0" to download Elementary, but otherwise I dug their goal of making a clean and simple-to-use desktop environment. Then they published this post -- and
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by ubertaco 11y ago
☑ Ambiguously-pronounced name ☑ Go ☑ REST-ful ☑ microservice ☑ lean YC bingo!
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by ubertaco 11y ago
> I’m a 31 year old German transhumanist, skeptic and vegetarian ....and his first three examples of "weird beliefs" are an Orthodox Jew and two Christians. "Weird" is very clearly "in the eye of the beholder&q
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Aww, I was kinda hoping this had something to do with the SEGA Game Gear[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Game_Gear
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by ubertaco 11y ago
I always confuse Peter Thiel with Chris Thile. So headlines like this really throw me for a minute until I get the two properly sorted.
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Agreed. Also: I'm gonna go ahead and say that statements about what "Millennials" want/do/buy/are/read/smell/eat/whatever are about as dumb as any other kind of blanket statement. The only c
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by ubertaco 11y ago
This is good for existing-Java ecosystems. Not everyone can just up and full-rewrite into a new language!
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by ubertaco 11y ago
I uploaded a photo with a picture of myself (I'm 25) and my 11-year old sister. I got guessed as 44, she was guessed at 74. I know I look older than my age (though I wouldn't think 19 years older), but my 11-year-old sister coming
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by ubertaco 11y ago
...which is why I use uBlock: https://chrismatic.io/ublock/
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by ubertaco 11y ago
"Open Source" is my favorite programming language.
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by ubertaco 12y ago
>"I've had people tell me, 'If I found out that this person's a Republican, their resume's off the list.'" But of course, nobody's going to hue-and-cry or place travel bans to California until they
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by ubertaco 12y ago
This would be great as an Emmet (Zen Coding)-style expansion shorthand for JSON/YAML
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by ubertaco 12y ago
And now they're just mostly naked.
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Some trivial counterexamples (in ES6 for convenience): someArray.sort((a, b) => a - b); var odd = (x) => x % 2 == 0; highlightRows = rows.filter(odd); function isLegalAdult(age, locality){ ... }
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Nice try, ghost of Steve Jobs.
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by ubertaco 12y ago
I've never heard of Knotlink, but its whole UI looks like a blatant clone of IFTTT.
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Running Chrome (my preferred browser) on a Mac (work machine), I clicked this link. The page crashed. I really don't know what else I expected. >_>
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Woah, John C. Dvorak is still alive and podcasting? I remember listening to him on Leo LaPorte's podcast back in like 2004 (before I got kinda sick of LaPorte) and thinking Dvorak was the entertaining cranky old man of tech back then.
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by ubertaco 12y ago
And for our Windows developers? My team is mixed: half OSX, half Windows. Should we maintain two separate scripts for each step and have our (repeatable) build process platform-detect and run the correct script?
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by ubertaco 12y ago
More accurate title: "my personal use-case for grunt/gulp will no longer be necessary once HTTP2 is widely available." As for my team, we use SASS to add enhanced featuresets to CSS (like variables, functions, and mixins), Ty
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by ubertaco 12y ago
> The goal of writing software isn't performance, though. It's a feature. Agreed. No customer/user will ever come to you and say "I want you to build something, and I don't care what it does at all. I just want i
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by ubertaco 12y ago
> Introduce "DOM batching mode". In this mode remove the immediate mode guarantees. If you specify an element width you are no longer guaranteed to read it back until the layout occurs. So store your intermediate element width
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Oh yeah, I remember Diaspora!
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Looks significantly more difficult than breaking competitor "Trivia Crack", which evidently doesn't even try to secure answers: http://www.dailydot.com/technology/how-to-win-at-trivia-crac...
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by ubertaco 12y ago
Yes, static typing provides a(n incomplete) form of testing. But the other thing that static typing provides is documentation. Compare these method signatures: def distance(a, b) vs def distance(a: string, b: string): decimal
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by ubertaco 12y ago
As a POSIX-loving, open-source-breathing guy: platform availability being equal, why choose Java over C#?

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