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by watt 7y ago
We already saw this play out in Scala. People end up abusing these to create absolutely unreadable "DSL"s. Even when it's tastefully done, for example the "!" and "?" operator for messages in Akka, it&#x27
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by watt 7y ago
If anything, the problem is overpopulation. And the falling number of children is really a sign of the solution. (I do take offense at framing that the declining number of children is something to solve. What benefit exactly solving it woul
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by watt 7y ago
You simply need to download from https://adoptopenjdk.net/
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by watt 8y ago
I guess he was estimating the effort (billable time). But was not estimating the actual total time until completion which must include all the lead time, waits and dependencies.
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by watt 8y ago
... which will balloon to 600, 800 Euro/month, as you get older. And if don't maintain the same level of income as you retire, you might have another thing coming - the public insurance will not welcome you back.
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by watt 8y ago
"Despite having just 12 percent of the national population, California represents nearly a third of all Americans on welfare. [...] In Texas, 6 percent of families in poverty receive welfare. In California, the figure is 66 percent. &q
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by watt 8y ago
This with the other article doing some troll logic mental gymnastics trying to convince us that dance moves/choreography should be copyrightable[1] (or intellectual property) really brings out the point how absurd the notion of IP&#x2F
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by watt 8y ago
The problem is that if Firefox is getting this default wrong, what else are they getting wrong? And it should realize user state is sacred, I would even expect if I quit browser with something written in the address bar (or search bar, etc)
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by watt 8y ago
When you log out, Firefox will block it and warn you that you are about to close number of tabs. When you select "OK", your tabs are gone. But Chrome will quietly exit, and when you start it next time, will offer to restore the ta
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by watt 8y ago
If children grow up associating libraries with a place that is not fun, support for libraries will die after that generation. The Berlin city libraries absolutely have spaces for children to play (loudly) and also make point of events with
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by watt 8y ago
When I was unable to get Google to send me an invoice in Germany (which I needed to be able to declare VAT paid - getting proper invoices are pretty big deal in Germany) for Nexus 4, that was the last device I bought from Google. Looks like
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by watt 8y ago
Yes indeed. Hopefully with the jdk modularization (Project Jigsaw) done and out and GA, efforts will finally pick up steam on those modernization projects. Add GraalVM native image capability to that, and Java will be back to leading the pa
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by watt 8y ago
Mostly it's not about what they do, it's about what they DON'T do...
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by watt 8y ago
No, the problem I have is saying that "all miseries" come from that and nothing else.
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by watt 8y ago
This always has seemed to me as condemning people who are not introspective enough or introverted enough. "If only we could get rid of these people, all miseries would vanish". Right?
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by watt 8y ago
Lucky for your ilk, that you are happy with the status quo - with people dying in car crashes, people ill with respiratory diseases, and suffering from noise pollution.
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by watt 8y ago
Git could be a showcase of inconsistent and confusing UX. If you like it, and you don't see any issue with it, then you know nothing about good UX.
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by watt 8y ago
Russians still like to joke that their grandfather went on sightseeing trip in Germany - in a tank.
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by watt 8y ago
No. Fully open source, community supported OpenJDK will the best thing that happened to Java. https://adoptopenjdk.net/
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by watt 8y ago
The real goal of EDD is for websites to have landing page (assuming you navigate from search engine) that requires no cookies, and does not capture identifying/tracking information (so no asking for consent would be needed at all) befo
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by watt 8y ago
But it is! https://www.curbed.com/2018/7/11/17536876/great-room-house-s...
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by watt 8y ago
The actual data plan price listed there is 14.99, sorry to say. (2.99€ is for the sim card.)
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by watt 8y ago
I don't understand if you truly believe that or are trying to be sarcastic (poorly).
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by watt 8y ago
Postgres however has moved quite a way since 2016 when the post was written, so it is possibly even factually incorrect at 2018. Postgres switched to much more rapid release scheme, and is making a lot of ergonomic and performance improveme
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by watt 8y ago
This seems an obscure reference to something people outside U.S. will not get. Care to elaborate?
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by watt 8y ago
Yes, exactly. They would shut down your container (or whatever it was).
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by watt 8y ago
I tried to use GAE back in the day, and it suffered from cold-start issues. Same story as if you tried to develop lambda-backed website with Java on AWS, and your lambda may take 20 seconds to start from cold.
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by watt 8y ago
This is old article from 2016.
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by watt 8y ago
Please consider also I have "Do not track" option turned on in my browser preferences. This should signal that I will not consent and am willing to take the consequences: even if it means you serve a "text only" version
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by watt 8y ago
It is not productive to think up technological solutions where a political one is required. Legislate for stronger privacy. Disallow companies to collect/store this data.

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