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by vorg 8y ago
The article mentions how writing evolved through several stages: (a) clay tokens, (b) replaced with 2-D signs, (c) evolving into phonetic signs, (d) settling into two dozen letters each representing a single sound. Over the past 50 years, a
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by vorg 8y ago
There also happens to be exactly 12 standard ideograph characters that were erroneously encoded in the Unihan compatibility character block (i.e. 﨎﨏﨑﨓﨔﨟﨡﨣﨤﨧﨨﨩).
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by vorg 8y ago
> a hundred dead languages and frameworks designed by a single visionary leader who made the wrong decisions E.g. there's the namesakes for Rails and Ruby, i.e. Grails and Groovy. Virtually no-one's upgraded to Grails version 3
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by vorg 8y ago
I don't have that problem because I've set the Hanazono font (A and B) as first choice for all Unihan characters on my computers (both Linux and Windows). The latest version, released last year , contains fonts for all 88,000 or s
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by vorg 8y ago
The name from the article (i.e. 𬎆 ) is included among the 88,000-odd characters in the Unihan repertoire so there shouldn't be any technical problems in using it, only political problems.
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by vorg 8y ago
Don't forget both the carrot and stick are at work here. Not only do new paradigms get factored into the price of land (as demand-side forces), but also laws backed by land owners arise that resist those paradigms from becoming mainstr
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by vorg 8y ago
This caters for everyone -- some employees would prefer to take Wednesdays off, while others would prefer three-day weekends. Some of the "work hard play hard" workers, though, would alternate between Mondays and Fridays off so ev
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by vorg 8y ago
Besides all the special cases in the normal use of Apache Groovy (e.g. definition of `==` different to Java), you also have to remember all the Jenkins-specific special cases (e.g. Groovy's collections methods don't work). I would
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by vorg 8y ago
"Taking the piss out of someone" has the same meaning as "taking the mickey out of someone". Perhaps that's the expression in the English you speak.
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by vorg 8y ago
It took a few moments to realize you mean: To me, exclamation mark, full stop and question mark are of equal precedence; they are higher than colon, which is higher than semi-colon, and that is higher than comma.
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by vorg 8y ago
> scala, I'm starting to wonder what the end-game is The end game back in the early days of Scala was probably to provide a gradual on-ramp to FP for people and projects transitioning from Java, but it probably changed to a commerci
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by vorg 8y ago
> some domain and number holders have no incorperated body: they hold the resource as a private individual whois has been useful to me in the past for finding out whether a DNS name is held by the foundation/company/trust&#x2
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by vorg 8y ago
More like western fifth speak French, southern sixth speak Italian, and the rest speak German.
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by vorg 8y ago
I agree. I was talking about the needless complexity of Gradle and Groovy in handling a build, not the inherent complexity of a build itself. Builds can easily be described declaratively, as shown by Make and Ant, and this was a major step
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by vorg 8y ago
> Gradle requires me to use a totally different programming language just to write configuration There's an alternative to using Apache Groovy for writing Gradle config scripts: https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-g
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by vorg 8y ago
> a tiny little bit of spite in everything IT related from programming language design A mere hour after your comment, a link to the dynamically-typed Gravity language ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373545 ) ap
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by vorg 8y ago
Perhaps a build system shouldn't need people to invest so much time into learning it. There must be a better way than all those Gradle API's and all that Groovy syntax.
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by vorg 8y ago
> syntax is designed to be familiar to people coming from C-like languages like Javascript, Swift, C++, C# and many more Besides Kotlin, other such modern C-like languages are Java, Dart, Go, and Groovy. But because Gravity is dynamicall
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by vorg 8y ago
There's no need to go full-blown Groovy for the scripty stuff. You can just use Java with the `var` keyword.
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by vorg 8y ago
Although Apache Groovy sits within an ecosystem of statically typed languages, Groovy itself has a long history of dynamic typing only. Its static typing was only introduced in version 2, and even then people don't use it very much --
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by vorg 8y ago
> having 4 equal choices Support for Groovy Templates is legacy and not as equal as the other choices. Groovy is now Apache Groovy , and on the decline.
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by vorg 8y ago
> we can easily trivialize what you say with a reply questioning your sanity You didn't make fun of the parent comment in the same way. Why is that?
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by vorg 8y ago
> Once this is possible it is a temptation so great for the US Government(or any other Govertment) and status quo to resist You emphasized Government but most surveillance in countries like the U.S. and Australia/NZ is done by the
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by vorg 8y ago
You forgot to mention the slow build times when using Gradle. If Android Studio is too heavy for his laptop then Gradle's hardly going to be much lighter. Unfortunately, even Flutter requires it when building the production-ready Andro
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by vorg 8y ago
So the solution to: error: package org.springframework.cloud.security.oauth2.client.feign does not exist is to manually add the lines: task deleteNonClientRelatedClasses(dependsOn: 'generateClient') { doLast {
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by vorg 8y ago
Why has beauty failed us? Such mathematical beauty is produced by the conscious mind, and the mind is created (via the brain) from the action of the laws of physics. Perhaps it's because the self-referential circuit Math -> Physics
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by vorg 8y ago
Supersymmetry was "beautiful" (i.e. it was produced by the conscious mind) and hence in a sense more "likely", so disproving it is as valuable as proving other "beautiful" theories (e.g. GR and Mercury's
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by vorg 8y ago
> I encounter far more trouble upgrading gradle and the build plugin itself Could be time to switch from Gradle to Bazel. It would also be nice to see the last of Apache Groovy, don't you think?
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by vorg 8y ago
> groovys's safe navigation operator a?.getB()?.getC() Apache Groovy also has shortcut property syntax so you can write `a?.b?.c` to get the same effect. Of course, all the syntactic sugar mixed together becomes quite confusing quit
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by vorg 8y ago
> HN hates R. HN loves lisp, and R as a language shares a much greater affinity with lisp languages than python or Go do HN was started by someone who wrote a book on, and flipped a startup using, Lisp. Python and Go are both used a lot

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