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by vorg 9y ago
> Singapore building an air conditioned dome over the whole city By the time they build it, it won't just be for aircon, but also to purify the air coming in from outside. It'll also be nice to do without the rain. Singapore wi
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by vorg 9y ago
Both your examples use very simple logic. The Apache Groovy codebase example is of some peripheral functionality, i.e. a builder. All the methods in your Grails codebase example are, at most, 1 line long. I can't be bothered re-investi
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by vorg 9y ago
Card shuffling and deck replacements take time, and time is money in a casino. Keeping an eye out for card counters and sharing blacklists with other casinos is cheaper than slowing down the operation of all their blackjack tables.
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by vorg 9y ago
> if consciousness is only a property that doesn't influence the actual physics, then how are we even able to talk about consciousness? We conscious beings can talk about consciousness because we can never understand how consciousne
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by vorg 9y ago
Static typing was grafted onto Apache Groovy in 2012, but no-one really uses it. I'm not sure about its reliability -- its use never took off on the Android platform, and none of the Groovy codebase itself has ever been rewritten in st
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by vorg 9y ago
The casino prohibition against "counting cards" in blackjack works the same way. How does one not notice and unconsciously count the cards played face up in a card game, then later on act on hunches coming from the back of our min
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by vorg 9y ago
> Nobody would say "I intend to use the wrong tool for the job." ...but there's plenty of sales charlatans out there who will say "I intend to get the manager of that IT dept to make its developers use my tool for the
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by vorg 9y ago
This scheme is doomed to fail. 51% of the people will vote for rising house prices because that's their greatest asset. When highly geared property doubles in value, the owners can make 5 or 10 times their initial investment. They don&
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by vorg 9y ago
> learn Kotlin (or Scala or Groovy or Clojure or whatever) on the side Scala's in a different league to Kotlin, Clojure, or Apache Groovy. None of those 3 languages are in, say, the TIOBE Top 50 this month, whereas Scala's list
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by vorg 9y ago
> I wouldn't group Snowden with Assange, Greenwalk, and Manning A line in the same vein as such others we've heard before: "Schwartz doesn't count because he gave up." "For Assange it's mostly about him
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by vorg 9y ago
That makes Australia, Zealandia, and Antarctica be one continent. Since all three names are 4 syllables long, with the stress on the second, in English, perhaps it should be called Stralantarc.
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by vorg 9y ago
>Perhaps China wants to annex NK If China was considering this type of thing, it would be a split of NK territory between itself and South Korea. China would be holding secret talks with South Korea about militarily assisting them to reu
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by vorg 9y ago
The funding for Zheng He's voyages was pulled because Ming China needed the resources to defend against renewed attacks from the north, i.e. Mongolia and Siberia. Because Britain is an easily defended island and the Iberian peninsula h
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by vorg 9y ago
More likely "Graal" was derived from "Grails", since the English word grail came from the Old French graal . And from http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/ : "The aim of this project
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by vorg 9y ago
> go to the JVM with something like Grails framework No-one's upgrading from Grails version 2 to version 3, or starting new projects in it any more. Apache Groovy's good for scripting on the JVM -- just don't build any sys
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by vorg 9y ago
Mainland Chinese use 嚏 instead of 嚔. I suspect they don't often know how to write that character because the phonetic root 疐 is only also used in 懥. Anyway, when writing, wouldn't Chinese use same grass-script style shorthand for
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by vorg 9y ago
How did you guess?
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by vorg 9y ago
> Different people have different conventions for how to rank the Olympic medal results. The newspaper in my country sometimes used another method, where they divide the medal count by the population of the country. In 2008 that put Jama
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by vorg 9y ago
Modern Chinese IME's use the pinyin-based predictive input methods (#1) as the primary method, together with a wubi-style method (#2) as a secondary input method. E.g. in the Sogou IME, if you type the 'u' (which can never be
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by vorg 9y ago
Apache Groovy also had that in its early 1.0 betas but they were removed before their official 1.0 release party.
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by vorg 9y ago
> No offense to Groovy Groovy (on the JVM) joined the Apache Software Foundation 2 years ago after being ditched by VMware/Pivotal. Like the EF, the ASF is another place where software goes to die -- Apache Groovy and Eclipse Ceylon
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by vorg 9y ago
What I wrote is what I got from reading the book a long time ago. Of course biology has advanced since the 1970's -- and of course my memory or understanding of it could be faulty because I read it as a teenager. What you wrote might e
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by vorg 9y ago
There was a book I read in the 1970's about "sociobiology" that explained this. If I remember right: People share exactly 50% of their genes with their parents and children, but only probably 50% of genes with siblings -- i
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by vorg 9y ago
> my advice for anyone who wants to make a dent in the future of web development: time to learn how compilers work. Many people in web development went there because it's the one place in IT development where they don't need to
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by vorg 9y ago
Didn't the US start targeting cannabis in the 1930's so the Alcohol Prohibition workers could keep their jobs by doing something else?
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by vorg 9y ago
Having escaped prosecution and collected a "pension", the criminals who caused the problem are now trying to rewrite history in their favor, hence the article which will no doubt be the first of many more like it.
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by vorg 9y ago
Perhaps a "compiler" transforms to lower-level languages (which includes Javascript, C code, VM bytecode, and chip instructions), a "decompiler" will transform to higher-level languages, and a "transpiler" will
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by vorg 9y ago
> the different intonations used in saying “I couldn’t care less ” versus “I could care less.” [dictionary.com link] > people who say “I could care less” are omitting the first part: “Like I could care less,” [Slate link] These quo
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by vorg 9y ago
> Space taken by car-parking is typically in dedicated parking lots: out of the way and doesn't impede public rights-of-way In some developed cities, but in most of China cars are usually parked on the sidewalks. When they're a
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by vorg 9y ago
While we're on the subject of interesting titbits, Apache Groovy was first announced 14 years ago. It's creator, James Strachan, announced Groovy on 29 August 2003, hosting it at groovy.codehaus.org.

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