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by vorg 8y ago
If, instead of using the metric getting a job as a Software Engineer , you used building and deploying quality software in a timely and cost-effective manner , then a CS and/or SE degree may be very important.
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by vorg 8y ago
If you can do it as a one-liner in Bash, then you're not using the JVM. The benefit of using Apache Groovy for scripting is access to the JVM (and of course defining Gradle builds). If you don't need the JVM, then do it in Python
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by vorg 8y ago
It sounds like Groovy 3 is just a forever-pending product designed to be a catchment for the stuff Groovy's backers aren't really very concerned about, or perhaps don't even want put into Groovy. It's still in alpha, bei
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by vorg 8y ago
If not having lambdas in Groovy isn't a problem, then why are they coming in Groovy 3 ?
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by vorg 8y ago
> Groovy still grappling with the module changes to Java9, let alone 10 or 11 Apache Groovy hasn't even updated its syntax to support Java 8 lambdas. It's coming in Groovy 3, apparently.
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by vorg 8y ago
Can't `dep` be easily redesigned so it sits atop the `vgo` architecture? I don't know enough about `dep` to say for certain, but it seems to add extra functionality to what `vgo` will provide, and could pivot into a still-relevant
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by vorg 8y ago
> Why are you bringing cities into this anyway? Makes no sense at all... > That still doesn't have anything to do with the discussion. Cities often act like businesses. In the U.S. cities even incorporate, just like businesses do
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by vorg 8y ago
I see "transpilers" as being on a continuum ranging from IDE collapse comments and collapse blocks at one end, to full code generation syntax macros at the other end. There's a sweet spot in the middle where the productivity
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by vorg 8y ago
> no cop outs with "I use {bolt-on sub-language that makes parent language more concise}" (that's not a mainstream language then) Why is "I use {bolt-on} that makes {parent language} more concise" a cop out? The
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by vorg 8y ago
Perhaps Google and Jetbrains will replace Gradle with Bazel in Android Studio sometime soon.
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by vorg 8y ago
Beanshell is another example for Java, and did it before Apache Groovy did. Beanshell added features like optional typing and terse property syntax to Java, then Groovy extended Beanshell by adding closures to Java. Java has made these scri
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by vorg 8y ago
By restricting ourselves to the JVM, we can introduce Kotlin code gradually because it can run side-by-side with legacy Java code. Unlike the other JVM languages, Kotlin has been designed to work seamlessly with an IDE. It doesn't intr
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by vorg 8y ago
> There's no documented proof that Indian system was descended from another system. [...] Hence, purely of Indian creation. If the Babylonians developed a place value number system with a zero in it before the Indians did, then it&#
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by vorg 8y ago
Virtually all jobs in Western societies are bullshit jobs (as defined in the article). But you've alluded to the real reason such BS jobs exist -- to give people something to do and keep them occupied so they don't go out and fi
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by vorg 8y ago
Those affected will get jobs restocking supermarket shelves or as security guards during the night. If they can't find such jobs, they will make far more noise in their RV during normal sleeping hours than they would if they were sleep
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by vorg 8y ago
This is a duplicate of one posted 8 hrs earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967692
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by vorg 8y ago
> I can do it single handedly For every 1 programmer working on a Cobol system who would and could rewrite it, there's another 3 who actively resist rewrites to keep their jobs and put bugs in the system to generate overtime-paying
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by vorg 8y ago
> they have a pretty well-translated app I tried signing up one week ago. Perhaps they've changed since you were there. I used their service in WeChat linked to WeChatPay to sign up and pay the deposit, after which I hit the "e
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by vorg 8y ago
> the bikeshare #12 learns the hard way that there is only room for three bikeshare companies in one city Their business model isn't about getting people to use the shared bikes for a small fee. It's about getting people to pay
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by vorg 8y ago
That should read "people who don't know what GAFAM means" instead of "people like you".
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by vorg 8y ago
Is it possible to write the pipeline code in another language with better formatting, e.g. Python or Jython, instead of having 15 lines with nothing but '}' on it? Here's a possible rewrite of the sample from the posting:
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by vorg 8y ago
I notice comments are still not parsed by cmd/compile/internal/syntax and placed in the AST. Some code to do it seems to be sitting around unused in the directory, as if it was once working but detached, perhaps because of th
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by vorg 8y ago
Because I spelt it GAMAF instead of GAFAM, people like you wouldn't be enlightened by googling it. I would tend to add evil Oracle to that list of the filthy five, and call them GAMAFO.
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by vorg 8y ago
Mobike being founded by an ex-journalist is an argument against your point, not for it. Journalism work in China isn't artistic, rather it revolves around finding things to say that keeps the govt happy.
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by vorg 8y ago
Everyone fights the GAMAF sponsored subversion of the ICT industry in their own way, depending on their personality. Although some people go around the law without breaking it, others wilfully break it (Snowden), others go around it but ina
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by vorg 8y ago
> what danger he poses to society that warrants a 15 month prison sentence We're seeing the reason for the U.S.'s >1% of adult population incarceration rate. The solution isn't occasional pardons but massive reform o
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by vorg 8y ago
> "It was hard enough to get Groovy" To make it work, they had to cripple Apache Groovy so you can't use its functional collections-based functions. Not sure if you can really call it "Groovy" with that handicap.
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by vorg 8y ago
Even a "systems" language like Go is just as suitable for a "quick alternative" as a "scripty" language like Apache Groovy or Bash.
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by vorg 8y ago
When I worked in IT, the standard technique Western employers used to practise discrimination was to use independent recruiters to place job adverts and vet candidates before they were forwarded to the employer. When the recruiter and emplo
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by vorg 8y ago
> Does the helper who whipes Einstein’s blackboard during the break deserve partial credit for what he put on it? If the helper knows what to wipe off and what to leave up for when Einstein comes back, then I'd say yes. That's

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