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by vorg 11y ago
Looks like "your house is big" doesn't contract because the voiced "is" becomes unvoiced "-s" when contracting, and two unvoiced "s" sounds don't join together.
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by vorg 11y ago
> There are lots of words with essentially no semantic content; they belong to various parts of speech just the same I said "the" is solely a cohesive device, independent of the semantics and in the domain of thematics, so &quo
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by vorg 11y ago
> Here are two English sentences in which a word appears solely to satisfy English syntactic requirements Not sure how that relates to what I'm saying about "the". A minor note: the "is" in "Your house is bi
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by vorg 11y ago
> "A" and "the" are most certainly the same part of speech. I disagree... > There are many other words in the same category: All these example words add semantic meaning to the noun phrase, and a primary sub-catego
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by vorg 11y ago
I would say that the definiteness use of "the", perhaps alone among English words, doesn't even have a part of speech because it's related to the thematic structure of English, whereas parts of speech are defined in the
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by vorg 11y ago
> The shortcuts and conveniences the Groovy lang provides make it perfect for this kind of application Groovy's original purpose, as frequently stated by its creator James Strachan, was exactly this kind of application. There's
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by vorg 11y ago
> Java is a subset of Groovy Java is not a subset of Groovy. Some syntax valid in both will behave differently in each, e.g. default visibility, and how == behaves.
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by vorg 11y ago
> JVM-based languages (like Clojure, Groovy, Scala, and JRuby) are quickly gaining popularity in enterprise environments that already use Java They are. Though of the 4 examples you gave, only Scala's really being used to build syst
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by vorg 11y ago
> I ported from code from Node to Java/Groovy How much of that was Java's fault and how much Groovy's, I wonder?
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by vorg 11y ago
> Most languages want to become mainstream (including Scala), most of them just fail to achieve that goal for a variety of reasons, often due to their design decisions A language will often become used in one particular domain, often not
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by vorg 11y ago
> Dark matter may or may not exist but there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about it 18% of matter is "regular" matter that interact with each other via bosons, and the other 82% is "dark" matter that doesn
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by vorg 11y ago
> As soon as a few applications start using this "new" form of UTF-8, some of them may have to keep supporting it forever Not if it's used through a 3rd-party library such as the Go-implementation of UTF-88 I've provi
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by vorg 11y ago
> The only acceptable solution is to remove the restriction of using only four byte per sequence which would allow to encode these easily keeping all the advantages of UTF-8 I agree. Extending UTF-8 with surrogates like this is intended
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by vorg 11y ago
> It basically defines a ginormous table of 1,114,112 code points that can be used for all sorts of letters and symbols. That's plenty to encode all existing, pre-historian and future characters mankind knows about. There's ev
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by vorg 11y ago
> something useful and valuable in job market in the future "Useful" and "valuable in job market" might not overlap too much. The small subset of Groovy used in Gradle build files and for quick scripts manipulating Ja
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by vorg 11y ago
> Dropwizard [...] forces you to use maven and they refuse to help you with gradle The configuration syntax (YAML) shown in https://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/manual/configuration... looks quite nice. It s
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by vorg 11y ago
With Gradle's build language, I can't easily remember when to put an equals sign in a line and when not to, e.g. from your example code, this has equals: bintrayRepo = 'maven' whereas this line doesn't: c
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by vorg 11y ago
The SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactory doesn't look like a joke, only the ...FactoryFactory. I'm guessing this class was chosen because it's the longest name in the Grails codebase. In fact, if you prepend t
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by vorg 11y ago
> it easily pays for itself in identifying good candidates and weeding out bad ones It even easily pays for itself in just weeding out the bad ones.
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by vorg 11y ago
Not just IDE's but also scripting languages like Groovy (the scripting version), its predecessor Beanshell, other less often used ones like Nashorn and Xtend, and even Clojure which doubles as a systems language. NB: By "Groovy (t
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by vorg 11y ago
> Who the hell would invade us? "You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you." - Leo Tolstoy
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by vorg 11y ago
> If as a founder you have managed to get your business to profitability Because in Australia (and NZ, Canada, etc) founders and employees tend to be waiting for privately owned residential real estate to move up in value, a "lifest
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by vorg 11y ago
> Australia is one of the richest countries on earth, with a median adult net worth higher Certainly true if you take the net present value of the resources buried beneath the huge outback and apportion it against the low citizen count.
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by vorg 11y ago
> Spring for JVM? [...] I can recommend Grails > nobody forces you to use Java for Spring, I prefer Groovy Recently the Groovy/Grails sponsor VMWare split them off from Spring and retrenched all the developers working on them, wh
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by vorg 11y ago
What country has the least number of bookshops per person I wonder. During my last trip back to my home town, Auckland New Zealand, I discovered there was only one "large" bookshop left and it had reduced its sales area to a singl
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by vorg 11y ago
> certain things are just not possible because of statically typed languages like Java. Dynamic languages are a lot more flexible It's not the static typing of Java that stops certain things not being possible, it's simply that
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by vorg 11y ago
> javac and write a "simple app". But once you use Gradle/Maven to handle dependencies and build Using Gradle or Maven to handle builds for Java require you to learn another syntax and vocabulary, i.e. Groovy or XML. In th
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by vorg 11y ago
> Now we will go through different ways to call method which accepts closure: 1. method accepts 1 parameter - closure myMethod(myClosure) 2. if method accepts only 1 parameter - parentheses can be omitted myMet
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by vorg 11y ago
> accept that they won’t change anything. The Go team has said time and again that the language is done for the foreseeable future. You are too late to the party. Some might cry about this, but this stability promise brings more long te
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by vorg 11y ago
Dropping trash in the street in parts of China is showing concern that everyone has a job, including street cleaners. The custom's changing in cities where labor costs are higher though.

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