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by vorg 10y ago
I suspect many English signs in Asian countries which use incorrect grammar, including slogans on T-shirts, have had input by foreigners here being mischievous. I particularly remember "No coming on the grass" as an English transl
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by vorg 10y ago
They wouldn't understand the sentence when reading it, but may when listening to it spoken naturally, with correct tones, stresses and pauses, if they're already familiar with all three uses of the word "buffalo". No
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by vorg 10y ago
> We are now more squarely in the age of Microservices, Mobile first, Polyglot, post-Java JVM languages Gradle provides only one language, i.e. Apache Groovy on the JVM, for specifying build configuration info. Before talking about &quot
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by vorg 10y ago
After James Strachan was knifed 2 years after he created Apache Groovy, that ecosystem has been all about consulting and conferences. Software such as Grails and Gradle is shoved down people's throats with promises of managing complexi
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by vorg 10y ago
Apache Groovy's original use case was scripting, so there's many features like that which makes Groovy be Bash for the JVM . It was based on Beanshell originally, but with closures and collections syntax added. Just don't tr
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by vorg 10y ago
If you click on (gradle.org) at the end of the title above, you'll see a long list of pages submitted to Hacker News from that website.
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by vorg 10y ago
> Automate and integrate your DevOps toolchain with a concise and expressive build programming language. That build programming language is Apache Groovy -- why didn't you mention it?
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by vorg 10y ago
> large parts of Gradle are actually implemented in Groovy I thought it was just the plugin and DSL handling code. That would explain why Gradle's so slow, then. > the DSL, which can be used purely declaratively, but it's no
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by vorg 10y ago
It's a stretch to say Gradle "uses Groovy". In practise, it more like uses a tiny non-Turing Complete subset of Groovy.
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by vorg 10y ago
Businesses where it didn't work fine don't usually openly advertise the fact they had to rewrite everything. Many of those that do stick with Apache Groovy often have restrictions on its use. Perhaps they only use the dynamic feat
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by vorg 10y ago
> Groovy, so when your pipeline grows in complexity/sophistication, you can manage its complexity and keep it understandable far easily Scripting languages like Apache Groovy don't scale, instead bring technical debt, complex
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by vorg 10y ago
> Embedded GUI > Gradle: In addition to supporting a traditional command line interface and IDE integration, Gradle offers a graphical user interface. This is a stand alone user interface that can be launched with the --gui option &gt
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by vorg 10y ago
> misunderstanding the original comment was maybe an intentional act Some people scan comments looking for specific things that conflict with some narrative they're promoting, usually with regards to a product. They will: * only rep
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by vorg 10y ago
> DevOps is the next wave replacing Agile DevOps is about eliminating the decades-old division between development staff who control the programs and operations staff who control the data. By having "DevOps" staff who control b
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by vorg 10y ago
> join a free software foundation like Apache that has resources There's a reciprocal arrangement here. One of the requirements of joining the Apache Software Foundation is using "Apache" when refering to the name of the s
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by vorg 11y ago
After discovering Haskell (lazily-evaluated functional) and Lisp (actually, Clojure), I'd have to say them. For anything close to the metal where pauses for garbage collects don't matter, Go. And of course HTML. (Tho I realize som
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by vorg 11y ago
Apache Groovy was really just intended for scripting anyway, and not meant to be scaled. Someone in their development group added static compilation and Android executables in Groovy 2.x, but they aren't being used by many people. Best
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by vorg 11y ago
> Gradle [...] give you dependency resolution with one-line-one-dependency, versioning, automatic downloads, update checking and other useful features. Not only automatic downloads, but also unwanted downloads courtesy of Groovy. See ht
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by vorg 11y ago
> A build.gradle file that lists a few dependencies is like maybe 7 or 8 lines of code, which can almost all be cargo culted ...and that code is written in Apache Groovy. Strange why they'd bundle a Turing-complete scripting languag
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by vorg 11y ago
Perhaps the people in these comments have had many programming experiences working with people who have great trouble coding, no matter how patiently we explain something to them . As a result, programming workplaces are often structured s
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by vorg 11y ago
> The standard measure is that your rent should be no more than 30% of your income, but for poor people it can be 70% or more. [...] Money from government programmes intended to help the poor – welfare, disability benefits, the earned-in
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by vorg 11y ago
Study: Students who will outperform take notes by hand instead of typing them
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by vorg 11y ago
It's not just Smartthings which betray users by collecting all your data. If you need documentation help with writing those Apache Groovy scripts, you might think going to the Apache website to look up Groovy would provide a safe brows
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by vorg 11y ago
According to TIOBE, Groovy rose from 0.33% to 1.8% in the last two months, and from 0.11% to 1.8% in the last 12 months. Click on "Groovy" from the main page and you'll get the graph at http://www.tiobe.com/ti
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by vorg 11y ago
This has already been posted by the same person at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11376894
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by vorg 11y ago
> you can declare your dependencies in the Gradle syntax It's actually the Apache Groovy syntax, not Gradle syntax. There seems to be an ongoing practise in these stories never to mention Groovy's special place as the DSL in
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by vorg 11y ago
So, to an accuracy of a factor of 10: smallest theoretical scale is 10^-35 m, i.e. Planck length smallest observed scale is 10^-19 m, i.e. quark interactions smallest life scale is 10^-6 m, i.e. bacteria and viruses size of vessel
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by vorg 11y ago
The author wrote: > For these scripts I decided to use JavaScript, primarily because it’s included in Java 6 and secondarily because many people know it Apache Groovy isn't included in Java, and there's many incompatibilities b
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by vorg 11y ago
> "paying" for access wasn't an official option Official and unofficial are two ends of a long sliding scale. Many paywalled newsites allow unlimited access if the article is accessed through links from search engines. Thi
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by vorg 11y ago
> Paywalls are just a pay for access method for making money from content, and unrelated to the topic I asked what the difference between a Firewall and a paywall is " from a user's point of view ". At various times and in

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