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1081.
by vorg 12y ago
The Codehaus implementation of Groovy was only voted into Apache a week ago, and still needs to complete the infrastructure conversions which could take months, or longer if problems surface. Its project manager Guillaume Laforge has been m
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by vorg 12y ago
> The mother tongue of more than three billion people is one of twenty, which are, in order of their current predominance: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Javanese, German, Wu Ch
1083.
by vorg 12y ago
Adverbs for adjectives ending in -ly end in -like instead, e.g. "costly-like", "friendly-like".
1084.
by vorg 12y ago
> we could be writing web apps in Go/Rust instead of JS. (or Groovy, $lang_of_choice) Couldn't work out if you're using Groovy as an example of a shoddy language used because there was nothing better (like JS), or a better
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by vorg 12y ago
This is an accurate picture of what happens right now in China, but limited protests are permitted by homeowners to haggle the price. An extra complication is Chinese can only own their properties for a maximum of 70 years anyway, with many
1086.
by vorg 12y ago
The Bazel query language has a far nicer syntax than Maven's XML without the risk of Gradle's full procedural language Groovy.
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by vorg 12y ago
> The Indian government dropped the ball here. They went their separate way with "ISCII" and other such misguided efforts, instead of cooperating with UC According to the beginning of chapter 12 of the Unicode Standard 7.0: &q
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by vorg 12y ago
> I would actually support the author’s “Greco Unification” strawman if it could be done in a principled way A 5 year old tech note by a Unicode Consortium member at http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn26 gives 7 reasons
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by vorg 12y ago
> In 2014, Groovy was downloaded 4.5 million times Almost 1 million of those downloads were made from a proxy server in China from Bintray during May 2014, see http://groovy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Blog07#2
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by vorg 12y ago
The Clojure language is far more mature on the JVM than on .NET. Clojure is useful for scripting Java classes, and you can use its macros to create new syntax if other JVM scripting languages (e.g. Beanshell, Xtend, JRuby, Jython) don'
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by vorg 12y ago
You submitted this 16 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9034477
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by vorg 12y ago
Tiobe is gamed bigtime by promoters of some of the smaller languages in the 21 to 50 range, and postings for IT jobs that don't exist is a con that's been going on for decades.
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by vorg 12y ago
> We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland Perhaps many parents are now teaching their kids this. There's probably also many teaching their kids to attack first, by stripping away the privacy of thei
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by vorg 12y ago
> with a whopping differential of 21 strokes, 廳→厅 (hall) is the most drastic change in the entire script. As 丁’s phonetic clue is [not very useful], several users of traditional react with horror to this change Perhaps because that chara
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by vorg 12y ago
> the Stack Overflow staff and moderators seem to take the attitude that the long-term content of the site is much more important Perhaps the Stack Overflow owners realize they can muscle in on the programming language documentation busi
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by vorg 12y ago
People from the future will likely consider the industrial and information revolutions to be the same revolution, just like people today generally consider the agricultural revolution to be one event instead of its two separate stages. We c
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by vorg 12y ago
> You’ve already taken the most important step: choosing to join an existing Foundation They're doing it because their existing "foundation", Codehaus, is closing down. But there could be another reason they've sudden
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by vorg 12y ago
The 90-10 odds of "retrodiction" as opposed to the 50-50 odds of prediction suggest it could in reality be 100-0 given better tools, and the initial 90-10 odds are the result of macroscopic "interference". Could this the
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by vorg 12y ago
> Scala and Clojure and Groovy so if you can't stand Java syntax you have great alternatives The backers of Groovy promote it as having Java syntax so perhaps Scala and Clojure if you can't stand Java syntax.
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by vorg 12y ago
Playing this game requires using the mouse all the time, whereas playing 2048 only required the four arrow keys on the keyboard. I use the mouse only when I have to. Unfortunately, requiring the mouse makes the web interface of this game kl
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by vorg 12y ago
Groovy was originally designed as a scripting language intended for manipulating and testing classes written in a statically-typed language, Java, in which substantial apps should be written. Only later did new managers of Groovy start prom
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by vorg 12y ago
I used Clojure a lot as a hobbyist language for 2 years, then changed to another one. I found I missed the immutability the most, even though I hardly wrote multi-threaded code. Once I was thinking "concurrently", going back to ha
1103.
by vorg 12y ago
And 10-line Gradle build files count as Groovy code.
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by vorg 12y ago
Groovy's creation year is wrong, it should be 2003 not 2004. It was first announced by creator James Strachan on 29 August 2003, and its very first release (Groovy 1.0 beta 1) was on 11 December of that same year. Unfortunately, someon
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by vorg 12y ago
> For practical or business purposes, this is a nice bit of incomplete information to help make a decision Titbits of incomplete information are often placed as a result of publicity campaigns. In the specific case of the github source i
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by vorg 12y ago
> I am a plain Java dev with learning skills (worked with Groovy/Python/JS a while ago) Perhaps he's promoting some other JVM language -- he did mention Java and Groovy. If you type "Groovy" into HN search, you&#
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by vorg 12y ago
> between Groovy, Clojure and Scala there's something to suit most programming tastes > the spec for the JVM is in one place, and it's published Between Groovy, Clojure and Scala, there's something to suit most tastes o
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by vorg 12y ago
Also in Chinese, "我有頭痛", tho "我有头疼" is often used in mainland speech.
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by vorg 12y ago
Because of the different accents, vowel sounds are pronounced differently in different native English countries and regions of countries, so associating one letter to a sound is only possible if you chose a particular accent, e.g. U.S. Grea
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by vorg 12y ago
I'm a native English speaker who started watching movies and TV shows with the English subtitles turned on about 5 years ago, and in that time have found dozens of word pairs I thought were different, having only heard/spoken one

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