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by vorg 10y ago
> if no one looks at it, is dismissive of it, or even becomes inflammatory of you sharing your own creation, ... people stealing an idea Far more likely than people stealing an idea is attacks by the people with vested interests in somet
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by vorg 10y ago
Then you've been pre-suaded.
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by vorg 10y ago
Neither Scala nor Apache Groovy are listed in the 8 languages Swift was influenced by on its Wikipedia page. That Groovy link was written by the Apache's Groovy PMC chairperson, and is more wishful thinking that fact.
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by vorg 10y ago
Cheney also writes: "The lessons of Python 3 (and Perl 6) are prescient; ignore backward compatibility at your peril." I believe Perl 6 can embed and/or call Perl 5 code, similar to the proposed Go 1/Go 2, but that hasn&
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by vorg 10y ago
> you can get most of the substance by looking at a couple blog articles about the 6 "weapons of persuasion." > Here's an example of a fairly good/"actionable" summary davidivadavid just gave a demo here
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by vorg 10y ago
When I came to Go, I hadn't used C or C++ for over a decade, only Java and C# in between. Using explicitly written pointers came flooding back, but the new "C for expressions, Pascal for declarations" syntax still takes getti
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by vorg 10y ago
I understood "Hated in the Nation" to be taking the piss out of the standard cop show format, with their happy endings, flashbacks from the debriefing, master villain, etc.
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by vorg 10y ago
Many English-speakers who live in China quickly find that any attempts to mix freely with local Chinese people is inevitably followed up by hard-to-refuse invitations to personally tutor their sister's or manager's young child in
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by vorg 10y ago
> Groovy on Grails The source you quote says "Groovy on Rails", which was the official name until it was contracted to "Grails" due to the insistence of the Rails crowd that "on Rails" not be used in any oth
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by vorg 10y ago
> Using Groovy, Jython, JRuby, etc Hope you included Scala, Clojure, and Kotlin in that list, all of which are more suitable than any of those three. Jython's been around since 1997-ish but isn't used much, nor is JRuby. As for
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by vorg 10y ago
> the not-so-perfect plugins for gradle Could be because Gradle up to version 2.x provided only Groovy for writing plugins and build scripts. Gradle 3.0 was released a few months ago, and provides both Kotlin and Groovy for plugins and b
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by vorg 10y ago
I read somewhere: "Katakana is Kanji written tiny; Hiragana is Kanji written quickly."
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by vorg 10y ago
> guys is a gender-neutral term these days "guys" sounds like "gaius"!
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by vorg 10y ago
> groovy, and they have fairly stable and usable static compile target release Citing some Groovy 2.x Release Notes to prove a claim of "stability" for Groovy is like quoting an advertisement for Parmolux washing powder to prov
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by vorg 10y ago
> heavily invested in Jenkins + Bash and will probably use Jenkins pipeline (Groovy) in the future ... would prefer a scripting language over YAML Do you really want to switch to Apache Groovy? Bash is pretty standard for scripting *nix
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by vorg 10y ago
> The maximum number of characters ... (this excludes non-characters and surrogates) You should exclude the surrogates but include the non-characters when tallying the characters. According to Unicode's 2013 Corridendum 9, "N
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by vorg 10y ago
> I'm impressed that anyone connected all the dots so quickly Or it happens so often that this is the 1 in 1000 that got discovered.
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by vorg 10y ago
According to that article (2012), you'd better clarify that as "...our galaxy doesn't have any detectable dark matter in the neighborhood of our sun ." Perhaps the phenomenon is the result of new relativistic dynamica
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by vorg 10y ago
> Scalia, groovy, kotlin Mentioning Scala or Kotlin on a CV says something different than mentioning Apache Groovy does. Scala and Kotlin are statically-typed languages designed for creating applications, whereas Groovy is for scripting,
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by vorg 10y ago
Even in startup culture, access to venture capital is similarly monopolized by such cartels.
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by vorg 10y ago
Advertising non-existent cheaper but lower-quality alternatives is a by-product of actually having those alternatives in an industry. When a hotel advertises budget hotel rooms in its front window, but tells walk-ins that they're sold
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by vorg 10y ago
> Many companies are starting to value good github profile Expect an industry to grow around servicing the github accounts of US-based programmers to make it look like they're doing side projects and learning certain skills. In real
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by vorg 10y ago
Nowadays if you check bintray for Groovy downloads, virtually all of them come from Germany, which is where the server hosting the groovy-lang.org site is located. Gradle 3.0, which came out last month, has replaced Groovy with Kotlin as it
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by vorg 10y ago
> Many big open source projects are "entrusted" to Apache after their funding/support is cut off Although "entrusted" to Apache, they're still controlled by the same people who change their titles from XXXX
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by vorg 10y ago
Would appreciate "(2011)" being added to the title here. This user often submits articles from this website, and a quick check of 2 previous articles (both interesting) shows they never put the year (when older than this year) in
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by vorg 10y ago
> the concept of written language came from the Middle East but was re-implemented independently from whatever proto writing existed at the time This seems the most likely because it only takes one person in ancient times moving from one
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by vorg 10y ago
If OpenOffice is retired as specified in 7.3(b) in the submission... > 7.3 There is no active attention to preservation of the trademarks related to Apache OpenOffice. (a) Inappropriate use of Apache and its symbols in names of offering
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by vorg 10y ago
> to access ad-hoc libraries without recompile though since Go doesn't really have dynamic loading of libraries In the current version of Gro, I recompile (just like "go run"), so there's a 1 second lag even for simpl
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by vorg 10y ago
> I'm not sure if you just mistyped I didn't mistype. Go would make a good language for writing dynamic languages such as Apache Groovy in. My own Gro is just one example of such a dynamic language.
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by vorg 10y ago
> There is just something so awesome about shoving your dependencies right in the script Groovy needs two lines (@Grab and import) to get a dependency. Golang only requires the import. Perhaps Groovy needs to be rewritten in Go.

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