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by vorg 10y ago
Even using 4 languages is too many, e.g. Java and Scala for system building, Apache Groovy for build scripts and unit testing, and Javascript for web side as in your example. Go with something like Kotlin, which compiles to JS, Android, and
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by vorg 10y ago
ASF have had IP and governance problems with Open Office (wrt Libre Office), Cassandra (wrt DataStax), and Apache Groovy (wrt OCI, IP).
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by vorg 10y ago
Gradle provides 2 languages for specifying build scripts: Apache Groovy, and Kotlin (from JetBrains). Kotlin is more integrated with IntelliJ and Android Studio (both also from Jetbrains), e.g. type hints work 100% of the time instead of be
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by vorg 10y ago
> The only known white hole is the Big Bang which was instantaneous rather than continuous or long-lasting Even if the Big Bang was a continuous long-lasting process of energy/matter appearing, wouldn't the effects of General R
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by vorg 10y ago
Or even "wʊstʃə".
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by vorg 10y ago
China has a special visitors visa category for foreigners of Chinese ethnicity, which gives them multiple entries over some long time period (could by 1 year, I forget). It's not available to foreigners of Caucasian, African, etc ethni
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by vorg 10y ago
> from good to amazing with Java including Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Groovy, and Kotlin After writing "good to amazing", you put an ordered list which many readers will subliminally rank in the order you provided, with the "a
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by vorg 10y ago
When talking about JVM languages suitable for building systems, Jython isn't generally mentioned for the reasons you give, nor is Apache Groovy. Those two are good for scripting, e.g. testing Java classes, build scripts, glue code. Bes
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by vorg 10y ago
You'd be lucky in software engineering if your non-technical manager sees their job as just defending their team. Someone needs something from the team? Push the team to give it to them. Their teams needs something? Give excuses on beh
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by vorg 10y ago
> Gradle is adding support for Kotlin alongside Gradle, and comments by the Kotlin designers. The big difference of course is that Gradle is dynamically typed by default. You've fallen for the trap of mistaking Gradle to be Apache G
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by vorg 10y ago
Most S-W types in programming jobs act that way because they don't have the aptitude for programming but for whatever reason ended up somehow in a programming job. They are mentally incapable of doing programming work, so act as S-W be
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by vorg 10y ago
> biding your time They will see you coming long before you see them. They will have previously set up their reward system with you so it's a Mutually Assured Destruction relationship.
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by vorg 10y ago
> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested. Are you referring to the recent movie "I.T." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.T._(film) where Pierce Brosnan
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by vorg 10y ago
> there's a lot of evidence that the laws of physics are the same as far away as we can see This could be a relativistic effect, just like the speed of light appears the same irrespective of frame of reference.
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by vorg 10y ago
> Why would conscious beings who have reached a high technological development even bother with expansion? That's like asking a cush white collar person to mine coal on the weekends. It doesn't make sense What about the people
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by vorg 10y ago
Go doesn't have single binary deployments either. You need a separate binary for every target platform. Java's use of a VM was intended to get around this restriction so that a single jar file would work on any platform, as long a
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by vorg 10y ago
Sounds to me like he's providing a service that enables people to get around the government-backed scams of never ending copyrights. When the copyright's about to expire, the U.S. govt bullies other govts into signing another trea
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by vorg 10y ago
Not just big-data projects but many other projects move from companies to the ASF. Apache Groovy was previously developed by 2 programmers and a project manager on VMware's dime, until they dropped it. But to say VMware "donated&q
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by vorg 10y ago
> Btw, Jenkins 2 Pipelines are not even in the picture because are neither proper pipelines nor proper jobs. It has no resumable/pausable stages, and is just a glorified DSL/UI on top of a multi-job kind of model. That glorifie
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by vorg 10y ago
> A critical feature of Composite Builds is the ability to integrate with IntelliJ IDEA Does that mean Composite Builds uses IDEA-compatible Kotlin to specify its build scripts, or is the aging Apache Groovy still used, with its 80% appr
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by vorg 10y ago
Kudos to the people at Pentest Limited and Trend Micro for discovering this security hole in Apache Groovy.
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by vorg 10y ago
> it would be nice to retroactively define that string is a named type (or type alias) for immutable []byte Perhaps an array is better than a slice, so `immutable [...]byte` Also, the for-range loop would have to behave differently so I
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by vorg 10y ago
There's 3 possible meanings: * the last of the men who walked on the Moon has died * the last man who stepped onto the Moon for the first time, died * the last man who ever stood on the Moon before stepping off, died Perhaps those last
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by vorg 10y ago
The Moon could certainly be lived on easily, but with a mere 1-second communications lag between Earth and Moon, using remotely-operated drones to completely build a self-sustaining habitation before sending even a single human there would
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by vorg 10y ago
The letters C, Q, and X are redundant for representing sounds in English, but are used uniquely in Chinese pinyin, from which English might plausibly import thousands of words in the very near future.
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by vorg 10y ago
Surely English sk-word "skoal" is used in Norwegian.
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by vorg 10y ago
> if one entangled electron flies into a black hole then we would be able to know its spin by measuring the other one even if light from it won't reach us All the arguments here mention what happens under SR but wouldn't GR be
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by vorg 10y ago
> typing is faster in zhuyin—the longest syllable takes 3 keystrokes instead of 5 [as in pinyin] The longest syllable in pinyin is 6 keystrokes: zhuang, chuang, etc Two bad shuangpin isn't used more extensively to type Chinese as it
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by vorg 10y ago
Virtually all languages use semantic digits to represent numbers. Just like the way you used "a little over 1000 emoji", instead of "a little over one thousand emoji". There's 10 "semantic" digits to the 2
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by vorg 10y ago
Spoken Mandarin is virtually always spoken with tones (except when sung, or when foreigners speak it), but when written virtually never has tones (e.g. signs). Only childrens books write the tone marks. So, along with various other intonati

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