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by vorg 9y ago
> Since Groovy is Java, you can paste Java code into the Groovy REPL and it works fine Did you mean Java 7 and previous versions? You certainly can't paste Java 8 code into the Apache Groovy REPL if it has lambdas because Groovy has
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by vorg 9y ago
> Gradle configuration is actually a big pile of Groovy scripts that create objects You can now configure Gradle (since v 3.0) using Kotlin instead of Apache Groovy. That might speed up Gradle start up times.
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by vorg 9y ago
> The whole article reads like parody tbh The "I've now changed my mind" bit seems suspicious, like he planned it out from the very first article. I suspect he'll publish a third piece in a few weeks saying neither te
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by vorg 9y ago
> the magic unfolded proton at the end was just a deus ex machina with no connection to anything The two magic protons used to conduct surveillance anywhere on Earth from a far off planet, and even change happenings on Earth to a degree,
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by vorg 9y ago
> the major world religions are particularly good at creating community It seems the word "religion" is even often defined by this behavior, given that the major religions all have very different beliefs. Of the big four (demog
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by vorg 9y ago
Python's certainly a more standard language for doing scripty things with than Apache Groovy is.
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by vorg 9y ago
The example ideophonogram should really include the tone of each sound, and whether it can be used standalone or only with certain other characters in words. As a foreigner living in China these are the characters I know how to read, mainly
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by vorg 9y ago
> The author of Groovey says Scalia is better. You mean James Strachan? That was 8 years ago. In November last year he said "I still love groovy (jenkins pipelines are so groovy!), java, go, typescript and kotlin. I don't use S
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by vorg 9y ago
and pay them "Scholarships" if they pass their previous term assignment successfully maintaining the codebase of whoever they're interning for.
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by vorg 9y ago
There's a natural progression from Bash to Perl to Python, each more powerful than the previous. If you haven't made it to Python yet, you're stuck in the past. Again with Ant and Maven, the progression is on to Gradle. Gradl
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by vorg 10y ago
British Empire's American colonies -> The United States of America
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by vorg 10y ago
> a convicted fraudster, who was making money through deliberate violation of copyright Violating copyright is not a crime in NZ, neither is it when former felons do it.
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by vorg 10y ago
The parent commenter said "(real, unadjusted) inflation". The inflation rate published by the Reserve Bank is calculated for everyday items as used by some demographic, but excludes the rising price of assets such as houses themse
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by vorg 10y ago
> Groovy is a quite lovely dynamic language and it's actually the best solution for BDD using Spock There's something wrong when a testing framework hacks into a language parser to make the language statement labels have specia
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by vorg 10y ago
> code written in Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Frege, etc Your list of 7 JVM languages (both here and in your earlier comment on this submission) seems to be from most widely used to least. Yet in your HN comment from 2
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by vorg 10y ago
> Seeing the same people in the member list every day, exchanging little inside jokes ...about what other people are writing in the main communication channel, creating precedents about what should be discussed with "individual memb
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by vorg 10y ago
> the last two let you use Groovy,Java,Scala and a host of other languages as well Neither Python nor R run on the JVM, so if you end up using Java,Scala,Kotlin,etc then you've decided to open that JVM can of worms which is another
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by vorg 10y ago
Grails 2.x or Grails 3 ? Many sites using version 2.x haven't bothered upgrading to version 3 in the two years since it was released, nor are there many version 3 plugins converted. And very few new Grails projects are started.
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by vorg 10y ago
> The wikipedia article says it's pronounced "mʌləˈjɑːləm" (3rd syllable stressed), yet don't people in Kerala say "mʌˈlɑːjələm" (2nd syllable stressed, last 2 syllables almost spoken as one). It's been
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by vorg 10y ago
I use the bookmark ribbon in Chrome as a "to visit soon, or return to" list. Stuff I would normally look through the history for. My most desired feature in Chrome is being able to right-click a link and add it to my bookmarks. Pr
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by vorg 10y ago
> while the Tories in Britain and the Republicans in the United States set about creating a neo-liberal Anglosphere – anti-egalitarian, avowedly Christian, pro-Big Business, pro-military – Scotland becomes part of Canada and helps lead
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by vorg 10y ago
The wikipedia article says it's pronounced "mʌləˈjɑːləm" (3rd syllable stressed), yet don't people in Kerala say "mʌˈlɑːjələm" (2nd syllable stressed, last 2 syllables almost spoken as one). It's been 30 y
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by vorg 10y ago
> using groovy collections methods is veyr inconvinient It looks like Blue Ocean generates Apache Groovy DSL code for the pipeline. From their pipeline doco [1]: _In order to provide durability, which means that running Pipelines can sur
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by vorg 10y ago
> Now, writing those .gradle files... Gradle build files have confusing syntax. Just knowing which lines have an equals sign and which don't is a bit of work.
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by vorg 10y ago
Around 2002, Australia stopped New Zealanders getting automatic Australian citizenship after residency. Also then, New Zealand changed the residency time to become a citizen from 3 years to 5 years. I haven't heard about the extra 2 ye
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by vorg 10y ago
When I lived in New Zealand in the 1990's, I met many Chinese immigrants who lived in NZ for 3 years then after becoming NZ citizens went straight to Australia to become Australian citizens after a further 2 years there. That's wh
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by vorg 10y ago
> Australia is able, and does, select who migrates to the country Australia selects its own immigrants through only one of its two immigration systems (its DIBP). Because they allow all New Zealand citizens (through a reciprocal arrang
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by vorg 10y ago
To me "kanji" is an English word but "hanzi" isn't. I never saw any problem using "kanji" in a Chinese context, since "kanji" seems to be a Japanese sounding of the word "hanzi". But un
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by vorg 10y ago
> We now have, in physics, two theories of great power and interest: the theory of quantum phenomena and the theory of relativity. [...] The two theories operate with different mathematical concepts -- the four dimensional Riemann space
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by vorg 10y ago
> [Apache] Groovy, which have failed to gain a large independent following > Not many people seem to be using Ruby for new projects anymore Based on these 2 trends, you can imagine how badly Grails has been faring lately. Its version

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