jroper

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by jroper 5y ago
I think the pertinent part of the comment you're replying to was graalvm, not so much Scala. I was compiling a small Scala codebase that took 15 minutes to compile - most of that was not my code, it analyses the reachability of the ent
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by jroper 5y ago
With Akka Serverless, the mental model is that you are deploying entities, not code. Depending on the state model you select for a particular entity, Akka Serverless will shard or replicate these entities across many nodes to serve them - w
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by jroper 7y ago
Number 3 - thinking in events instead of REST actions, can't be stressed enough. Of course, some things must be actions (or another for that is commands), and in those situations, you need something that will turn a command into an eve
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by jroper 8y ago
I don't think Netflix puts their content on CDNs. A prerequisite for Netflix entering a country is whether AWS has a datacenter in that country (or for smaller countries, near that country). For example, Netflix only offered services i
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by jroper 8y ago
My company hires engineers wherever they are. We're only incorporated in a few countries, the way we work is to engage a firm whose business it is to be incorporated in many countries so that they can hire people in those countries as
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by jroper 11y ago
Since when does bending light require distorting the fabric of spacetime? All you need is two transparent materials of different densities, they don't have to be heavy, and you will bend light as it passes from one to the other, it&#x2
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by jroper 11y ago
I like Play too.
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by jroper 12y ago
If in doubt, order everything on the menu.
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by jroper 13y ago
> and therefore no one (meaning the author) does X Quite the contrary. I (the author) have done a lot of asynchronous Java development using promises and other asynchronous constructs. The boilerplate is a cost that I'm willing to
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by jroper 14y ago
Semantics aside, there is really no difference between performance in Scala and Java, equivalent code in both compiles to near identical byte code, save for a few niche optimisations (eg tail call recursion) that can make Scala faster. I d
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by jroper 14y ago
In some cases, client code could be written so that new actions can be discovered and utilised without any changes to the client code. There have been many cases when I've written code that renders things, and I've reused that code to rend
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by jroper 14y ago
I completely agree. I have noticed, programmers who can't touch type write very few comments and very little documentation. Communicating with them via email sucks because they can never explain themselves properly. Just like typing is o