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by vorg 9y ago
> During the course of an hour, I recorded 64 different nuggets of corporate claptrap. They included familiar favourites such as “doing a deep dive”, “reaching out”, and “thought leadership” With 64 nuggets, you could've created som
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> Travis ci or Amazon pipelines where it is all declarative not imperitive [...] a Turing complete parse of tons of custom groovy scripts Even worse than Apache Groovy being an imperative DSL (compared to Travis ci and Amazon pipelines b
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> Groovy (a compiled language) Because of its use in scripting on the JVM(e.g. glue code and Gradle builds), Apache Groovy files are usually stored in the file system as text. Each time they're run, they are "compiled" int
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> you can swap it with Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell (Eta), Groovy, JRuby and others Only Scala and Kotlin are feasible alternatives to Java for building applications on the JVM or Android. The others in that list are limited by dynami
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> It gives the public a false sense that a step has been taken toward having more housing when in fact it’s just an illusion. This is the same anywhere there's direct democracy. 51% of the people vote in the government that perpetua
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Most people use LibreOffice which forked from Apache OpenOffice, rather than OpenOffice itself, because it's being maintained. At one stage I had both installed on my computer because OpenOffice was better for powerpoints, and LibreOff
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> golang, but IMO Google [...] business practices are leading to developers becoming more wary of adopting their technology products ...but many other developers learnt some Golang because it was backed by a large IT corp. Never undere
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> > it is a pain to manage Jenkins itself with code > This is not true, all the configuration is scriptable via groovy scripts. [...] There is an effort to support this better[1] by jenkins team The link you gave confirms it by say
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Unfortunately, when you learn Gradle, you also have to learn its procedural description language, Apache Groovy, with its many quirks, such as when to use something "abc" and when to use something = "defg"
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A certain social score has progressively been rolled out over the past few millennium. It began in the granaries of Mesopotamia and the Yellow River, and nowadays only a few tribal people aren't part of it. It's known as "mon
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To get the median of an even number of values, you must calculate the mean of the middle two values. Therefore the definition of the median relies on the mean already being defined when working with a discrete number of values, which isn&#x
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Even worse than weasel words is false logic, such as these two statements: > a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years > At the time of writing, there are roughly 132,000 register
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> Over the time, the prototype has grown to be a serious app This is your problem, not the lack of tests. When you use Ruby or Apache Groovy to prototype something, it needs rewriting in a statically typed language as soon as it starts g
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Basic income just makes rents go up. Better to provide basic guaranteed room and board, with some basic pocket money for bus fares.
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The author asks how we could use the mathematical equations which describe all of reality to compute the frog’s view of the universe — our observations — from the bird’s view. Wouldn't we also need to include our self-awareness in thos
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> If you counted the same sorts of things as keywords that java did, Go would have almost exactly the same number Java has 53 keywords, whereas Go has 25 keywords and 39 special identifiers, totalling 64, a little more than Java's b
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> provides a (runtime) safe and low-verbosity way to write dynamically-typed code, i.e. `interface{}` Since Go 1.9 was released with its new Type Aliases feature a few months ago, the verbosity is even lower. By putting `type any = int
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by vorg 9y ago
People tagging Like or Dislike on their programming language are usually comparing it to another one. So programmers will "like" Apache Groovy compared to Java, "dislike" Perl compared to Bash, or "dislike" Go
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Apache Groovy's worked quite well as the "Bash of the JVM", though other JVM languages have been moving into that space lately. Clojure's also quite good for running tests -- its macros can easily eliminate clutter in re
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If most of my build.gradle files need to be tweaked in order to work with AS 3.0, then I might as well just rewrite them in Kotlin -- after all, they're only 30 lines long. That way, I can use Kotlin as my programming language for Andr
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> Tokyo can fit 38 million people into its city but New York City can't find room for 1/5 of that You compared the populations of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area (38m) with the New York 5 boroughs city area (8.6m). You coul
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> Your hand is likely to smudge R-L systems unless you're left handed which most people are not Arabic was originally read Right-to-Left, but written Top-to-Bottom, leftwards, on the scroll so smudging by right-handed writers wa
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> Penrose sums up this connection beautifully in his opus "The Road to Reality": “The laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then enc
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In order to replicate, a probe needs material from the star system it's visiting, stuff like iron and silicon. That process is likely to break down after so many journeys, so no more replicants. The probes would put their own AI into t
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The problem with self-replicating probes is they're likely to break down after so many legs. And every time they decelerate, they need to get more energy from the star system before accelerating again -- their AI might not be equipped
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Apache Groovy's used for scripting on the JVM, like Bash and Perl on Linux. It's OK for glue code, mock testing, and 10-line build scripts in Gradle. But 5 years ago, some of Groovy's backers tried to re-purpose it as a compe
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> So the mainstream languages are...: C/C++, C#, F#, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Swift, VB.NET Of those 18 languages, only 13 are in the TIOBE top 50. Two of them (Ap
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8 continents? I guess that's Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, and Zealandia. But I see: * 1 mega-continent, i.e. Eurasia, which has sub-continents Europe and India tacked on * 3 normal continen
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You omitted 2 of the reflexive pronouns. Only the 1st and 2nd person forms use the possessive: * myself, ourselves, yourself. All of the 3rd person forms use the personal pronoun: * themselves, himself, herself, itself Does
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> Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found The first paragraph clarifies that this headline means "The missing (regular) matter comprising half the (regular matter in the) Universe has been finally found"

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