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by vorg 8y ago
> if a patient in the study saw the word 'hippopotamus' written on a piece of paper, they could identify a hippopotamus in flashcards. But when that patient heard someone say 'hippopotamus,' they could not point to th
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by vorg 8y ago
I can't tell what article this map is associated with. But it appears to be a summary of when various places on earth were first settled by each homo. Australia was first settled by the Aborigines about 50k years ago, entering via So
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by vorg 8y ago
> Nobody cares how many collections of 6 digits something has. 3 digits are what people care about. (Except where they care about 4 4 is a more common grouping than either 3 or 6. All of China and Japan and many places in between group t
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by vorg 8y ago
The Aborigines of Australia migrated separately from the Austronesian people who colonized Indonesia, coastal New Guinea, the Philippines, Madagascar, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
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by vorg 8y ago
> Some people always talk down Groovy, yet the numbers speak for them self Many of those numbers are fake. Groovy was #70 on the Tiobe index only 12 months ago, see [1], but is #16 now. How do you explain that? Groovy was last in Tiobe&#
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by vorg 8y ago
The Apache project managers removed the new parser from the Groovy 2.6 betas over 6 months ago after officially canceling it and saying Groovy 3 would be the next release. But no real work has been done on Groovy 3 since then. I'm gues
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by vorg 8y ago
> The JVM is a highly-optimized, cross-platform, garbage-collected environment on which people have built much more progressive languages that lack the syntactic baggage of Java: Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin. Apache Groovy has inherite
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by vorg 8y ago
Both meanings can be expressed using a phrasal verb. To "hack into" something has the blackhat meaning, whereas to "hack at" or "hack up" something has the whitehat meaning. But to "hack" something, w
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by vorg 8y ago
Kotlin hit the sweet spot between the abtrusity of Scala and the sloppiness of Apache Groovy.
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by vorg 8y ago
On the JVM, Beanshell has been around since the late 1990's so that's also over 2 decades. In fact, Apache Groovy was pretty much a clone of Beanshell, but with closures added, in its day.
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by vorg 8y ago
Spring's AOP pointcuts (in its first incarnation as AspectJ) and Groovy (pre-Gradle and pre-Apache) are both over 15 yrs old. To not know those is having a skillset that's well over ten years out of date.
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by vorg 8y ago
Good idea. I refer to Apache Groovy as "Bash for the JVM". The static typing features in Groovy were bolted on for version 2, whereas Scala and Kotlin were designed from the ground up for building actual systems on the JVM, so the
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by vorg 8y ago
Sounds like my story too (lost 25kg about 7yrs ago and kept it off). I generally rotate on a 1-week cycle. The only daily rules I follow are (1) never eat noodles more than once a day, and (2) eat some green vegetable/s once a day. I a
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by vorg 8y ago
> more used than previously, though in different ways to how it used to Are these new uses of Apache Groovy really what we would call "using" a programming language? Although many "use" Groovy in Gradle, it's mai
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by vorg 8y ago
It makes sense that it doesn't list joined words like bleary-eyed when its definition is obvious from the constituents bleary and eye , or inflected words because inflections like -ish and -ly each have the same meaning when m
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by vorg 8y ago
> we currently have 88k CJK characters assigned If you also count the Unihan variations registered in Unicode's ideographic variation database by various Japanese outfits, encoded using the VS16 to VS255 characters after the codepoi
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by vorg 8y ago
Do you expect anyone to believe the Tiobe index? They say Apache Groovy has risen from #60 a year ago to #16 now [1]. This is obviously wrong since software sites have been dropping Groovy for other JVM tech. [1] https://www.tiob
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by vorg 8y ago
> "is-to-see" is not a contiguous unit You can insert stuff between "is" and "to-see" (and between "to" and "see", I hope you agree) because English mostly parses into left-branching tree
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by vorg 8y ago
> There is no unit of English syntax which [...] Here you're defining syntax around your orthographic definition of what a word is. > "Is he really, in your opinion, to see her tomorrow?" The opinion words "really&
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by vorg 8y ago
> English has no inflected future tense like Latin and Romance languages. In linguistics, “tense” refers generally to how a verb is inflected English has no inflected future tense because of the way words are usually defined. Verbs in
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by vorg 8y ago
> the names of all Apache® projects, software products, and their logos are trademarks owned by the Apache Software Foundation on behalf of our project communities. Note that while some Apache project names and logos are registered in th
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by vorg 8y ago
The link didn't work from my part of the world so I couldn't read it, but the title is self-explanatory, so I'll make a point which you may have already made. Previously constructed languages like Esperanto use vocabulary sam
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by vorg 8y ago
You could use a struct with private fields, e.g. type Users struct{ dict map[string]*User list []*User } and attach methods to both access the data and coordinatedly update both forms, e.g. func (us *Users) byID(id stri
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by vorg 8y ago
You inadvertently submitted this twice -- there's another link ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19177937 ) for the same from 12 hrs previously.
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by vorg 8y ago
But making the Central Valley as desirable as the Bay Area to live in would help the housing problem. Do this by building not only housing, but better infrastructure (roads, rail, schools) and create incentives for Bay Area businesses to
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by vorg 8y ago
> Was this something they were seriously expecting in the coming years? I started high school a few months after the last time anyone walked on the moon. If you'd told me then that no-one would ever again walk on the moon in the fol
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by vorg 8y ago
> a tribe that always specified the direction [...] eventually she acquired something like a bird's eye view in her mind Even when the language you speak doesn't have this requirement, you can still pick up this skill. When you
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by vorg 8y ago
The British Empire and the United States spoke the same language. Their homelands, i.e the places where they make up the majority of residents, are the same: the British Empire with its American colonies then, and the United States and its
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by vorg 8y ago
Even a 1k line project is unmaintainable when written in Apache Groovy.
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by vorg 8y ago
> For a lot of existing Java code, it's as simple as renaming the file to .groovy This causes the program to run in dynamically-typed mode, much sloooower, so why do it? You'd have to add @Static annotations everywhere to get a

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