speckledjim

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by speckledjim 15y ago
You'll look back at these comments you're making in 10 years and be embarrassed. Hopefully by then you will have learnt a bit more about being a productive programmer. The language doesn't matter. Repeat after me... A good programmer can ma
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by speckledjim 15y ago
That's great that you've discovered you're less productive in Java than Scala. Hopefully you can improve that deficiency in your programming at some point.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
It seems like Canada is half way along the awesome scale to Europe.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> You lack the breadth of experience to make this claim. Wake up. You're 23. You're a kid. You've just started programming and think you know everything. You don't.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variation of boilerplate. Learning to read code is just like learning to read English. You can guess most of the words meaning once you know
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by speckledjim 15y ago
That won't solve the abysmal coverage and dropped calls enjoyed in the US.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> I have been writing Java since I was 13. I am 23 now. I have been paid for code written in C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, F#, and Python. Woah! You're 23? I bow down to your knowledge and wisdom ;) (I started programming before you were b
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by speckledjim 15y ago
This isn't an isolated incident though. Their whole business model pretty much is built on the fact that things like this will happen. A lot.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
It's still a problem with US carriers. (Other countries have far better carriers and ecosystems than the US) It still absolutely amazes me that you guys usually pay for incoming SMS messages. I mean come on. W T F? If the carriers started c
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> because the article is primarily about problems with the Android ecosystem. IN THE U.S.A. If you want better cellphones with better carriers who don't do stupidly intrusive things, move to Europe.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
More generally, don't use anything on the day of release... Wait a week or 2 for the bugs to be ironed out. Surely we've all learnt that by now...
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by speckledjim 15y ago
You cannot kill a language, unless everyone stops using it. The chances of that are nil. But keep on with the hyperbole.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
It's all about money and greed. Sad indeedy.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
BS. They will know about it, and know that it carries large risks.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> and a bigger problem is that more than any other language I'm familiar with Java suffers from the problem of not being able to see enough ideas in a given amount of source code. This is not an issue with Java. It's an issue with the p
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Yes, the reason is the runtimes for them suck, or aren't needed. If there was a decent runtime for BASIC or COBOL, which gave real world advantages over everything else, I'd switch to BASIC or COBOL in a heart beat. I'm a programmer. The la
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Java does no such thing as "encourages 20,000 line behemoths filled with dross". Bad programmers do. If you're creating several methods that only differ a little bit, you're doing something stupid. In any language. Bad programmers create
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I think it is. If people haven't learnt yet that the single most important skill you need as a programmer is being able to read any code, in any language, and take a good guess at what it does, be able to hold abstract programming concepts
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> Those are the kind of features that are sorely lacking in Java, and that means huge, bloated code bases. No, it doesn't. If you can't write concise Java, you're doing something wrong. And if you can't read code well, go practice some
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Well, people want different things. I just want the hammer. New language features are all fun, but unless they actually result in faster execution, or allow you to do things you could not do before, they're only use is to make some develope
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> The community splintered, the language and platform really lost any ability to maintain momentum. This is the mindset I've never understood. Do you stop using a hammer to bang in nails because the hammer "community" has splintered, or
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by speckledjim 15y ago
The more surprising thing is that they seem to genuinely believe they can "block" content. Sorry, the internet doesn't work like that.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
The only time I've ever used an optical drive is to re-install the OS. You can pick up a USB DVD drive for next to nothing for those rare times you need it.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I don't live in fear. But I'm not going to go stay with random people thankyou. They might be in a cult for a start. I'll take my hotel room thankyou.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Sure, but the whole premise is that you're traveling. Going to unknown territories. If I'm going traveling, I'm sure as hell in "untrusting" mode since I don't have a clue what the locals are like. There's strangers as in "local resident I
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by speckledjim 15y ago
No, the worst that could happen is the host is a psycho who wants to murder / rape / take nude pics of you without you knowing. There's a reason hotels exist, and there's a reason why it's a bad idea to hitch-hike, or even worse, stay with
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Good reason why renting sucks. (It's not your house).
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Probably a stolen card from their last airbnb rental/trash/steal creditcards.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Always bound to happen. Up next, the host who fits spycams in his shower and posts pics of his naked visitors to porn sites.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
xbmc is ok enough. It handles 95% of stuff.

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