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1171.
by vorg 12y ago
The definition of words (like "Sachzwang") which express abstract ideas (whether nouns, abjectives or verbs) are subtly different for everyone who speaks the same language, and is the sum total of all the contexts the hearer has h
1172.
by vorg 12y ago
When Gradle 2.0 came out earlier this year, I looked at its source and there was virtually no Groovy code left in there, only the minimal needed to interface with the DSL. Not much of an advert for using Groovy for anything other than scrip
1173.
by vorg 12y ago
> the claims [...] tend to be wildly exaggerated based on whose agenda (read: radically pro- or anti-relativism) the claims would end up supporting This sort of thinking seems to be particularly rife in the field of Linguistics. From abo
1174.
by vorg 12y ago
Groovy (the dynamically typed version which is the only one anyone uses) runs as slowly as Ruby, if not slower, so wouldn't Grails too? Scala's statically compiled so perhaps Play runs quicker than both. I don't know about th
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by vorg 12y ago
There's problems not just with Javascript closures but also with Groovy closures. According to the Groovy devcon 2 report at http://javanicus.com/blog2/items/191-index.html "no agreement was reached on [
1176.
by vorg 12y ago
Yes, based on the litmus test of the recent lack of global cooperation in managing climate change, we can expect developed countries to look after their own citizens only, using their militaries to steal all available food from less develop
1177.
by vorg 12y ago
In Scala you can define stuff like <*/+-> to mean anything you want. Are you perhaps arguing over my choice of words to describe this phenomena?
1178.
by vorg 12y ago
Better to compare it to other "in use" JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure, Nashorn).
1179.
by vorg 12y ago
They've stated their decision not to copy certain features such as rampant operator overloading. Is this what you mean by "Scala-bashing"?
1180.
by vorg 12y ago
Batteries on the moon could be used incrementally, sending only 100 up at first in a 10 x 10 grid, and flashing back crude pictures or ideograms, even basic movies of McDonalds burgers, so there's free cash flow early on. An orbiting b
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by vorg 12y ago
Some media company (Google, Alibaba?) might fill up the sunny side of the Moon with a grid of photovoltaic cells 1 kilometer apart, then charge money to flash advertisements back at the Earth. They'd make a killing during solar eclipse
1182.
by vorg 12y ago
> Although entropy must increase over time in an isolated or “closed” system, an “open” system can keep its entropy low — that is, divide energy unevenly among its atoms — by greatly increasing the entropy of its surroundings. Perhaps th
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by vorg 12y ago
"星期日" is generally written Chinese, but in speech Chinese say "星期天" where 天 could mean "God" when the 7-day week was copied from "Christian" Europe. I just found http://www.cjvlang.com&#x2F
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by vorg 12y ago
Chinese uses the numbers for days of the week, so 星期一,星期二,星期三,星期四,星期五,星期六,星期日 for Monday to Sunday. They can use 周 or 礼拜 instead of 星期. I remembered Japanese copied the Chinese at something there, but, whoops, it was the names of the planet
1185.
by vorg 12y ago
> Despite hours of studying and tutoring, most of these underperforming students struggle with, and many ultimately give up on, programming as a career They should follow the lead of those who figure out earlier they're not cut out
1186.
by vorg 12y ago
The day and year are settled astronomically. As for the week, it's been in use for at least 2500 years continuously without ever skipping a day and now virtually every country uses it. The month, however, has variable length, has been
1187.
by vorg 12y ago
Have a 14-month year, then start the following year in March.
1188.
by vorg 12y ago
Starting the week on Monday seems more common than Sunday for most countries, I believe France does. And China and Japan name their days literally "Day 1" for Monday, ... "Day 6" for Saturday, and "Day Sun" for
1189.
by vorg 12y ago
Does anyone else say "I've pung that IP address" ?
1190.
by vorg 12y ago
The thing with the most commonest verbs "come" and "go" is they're the same verb but with different directionalities, just as "come" and "came" is the same but with different tenses. Ditto "
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by vorg 12y ago
Do you have any info on why Spain passed that law, such as white papers proposing the law or debates given in their version of parliament? Was it specifically to force companies like Google to shut down, or was that an unintended side effec
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by vorg 12y ago
> RAILS (ruby), Yii(PHP), Django(Python), Grails(Ruby) Groovy became a clone of Ruby within 2 yrs of its creation, what with similar closure-based functions, the meta-object protocol, the paren-less DSL syntax. The overall syntax is diff
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by vorg 12y ago
The code runner first tries evaluation as a Groovy image, if groovy fails then tries it as a Scala image, if scala fails then tries it as a Nashorn image. Given that Javascript is more common than Scala and Scala more common than Groovy ( h
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by vorg 12y ago
> Open source has seen a rapid expansion in the past decade My primary experience of open source software in France is of a French software product manager who worked with a German tech lead. The product manager got the German programmer
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by vorg 12y ago
Using Groovy to parse their build scripts instead of an industry standard like JSON is what's holding Gradle back. But I suspect they'll open their build process up as an API now that Java provides lambdas.
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by vorg 12y ago
> Gradle requires you to read the first 12 chapters of the manual before you can even begin doing something more advanced than running compile The purpose of Gradle, like other products in the Groovy echosystem, is to sell consulting fee
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by vorg 12y ago
> It's worth the transition Or maybe it's worth formatting a Maven syntax sample in your comment just like an IDE would: <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.edu-services.course-management</gro
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by vorg 12y ago
Maven's HTML/XML-style syntax in dkopi's example... <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.edu-services.course-management</groupId> <artifactId>course-management</artifac
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by vorg 12y ago
You're quite right to avoid learning Groovy, especially with its lack of documentation, but Gradle doesn't really use Groovy. It bundles Groovy, and the Gradle build scripts you write are parsed as Groovy code, but typical build s
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by vorg 12y ago
If an open source project doesn't merge in pull requests, then that's the business of whoever created and/or runs that project. When a project's managers let a pull request or Jira issue sit there but create their own re

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