steve_barham

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by steve_barham 4mo ago
I did something similar a few years back, with a slightly different approach to declaration, using interfaces to denote the layout of the struct. Mutation was opt-in by exposing setters using the (of the time) standard JavaBeans layout and
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Pattern Matching for Java(cr.openjdk.java.net)
370 points by steve_barham 9y ago|146 comments
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by steve_barham 12y ago
They did have time-choice; they chose to allocate a substantial portion of it to having children.
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by steve_barham 12y ago
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by steve_barham 12y ago
Sure you can. Ctrl-Shift-A, type 'keymap', and you get a handy popup (same size as the 'recent files' switcher available with Ctrl-E) with the defined keymaps ready to use. Few seconds, maximum.
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by steve_barham 12y ago
Regarding the 'checked exception issue'; an alternative technique to the method-wrapping-lambda is to use a default interface method to implement the non-exceptional interface, which delegates to the possibly-exceptional method. I
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by steve_barham 13y ago
Not Invented Here syndrome, at all? Sure, I understand wanting to use Python for templates rather than relying on an external application. But why ignore the many, many existing template libraries? Some of those libraries have solved proble
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by steve_barham 13y ago
Source? If you look at expenditure on pharmaceutical research and development in the UK vs. the US, you see that 9% of global R&D expenditure is UK based, and 49% is US based. This very closely matches the population differences between
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by steve_barham 13y ago
"I'm pretty sure in 10 years time I will read a post about how you need to switch your horrible old messy AngularJS app to XYZ which will fix all your problems." More likely given the rapidity of churn in the JavaScript wor
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by steve_barham 13y ago
There's a certain irony in the poster dismissing Java with one hand: "In effect, to the developer it 'feels like writing Java,' which as we all know, is a terrible feeling" While professing the benefits of
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by steve_barham 13y ago
I'm not sure why this article has been published in 2013; it seems to stem from the late 1990s, with it's speculation on the widespread use of technology 'by 2000': "I wouldn’t want to push back the gestational age
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by steve_barham 13y ago
There is a detailed analysis of the feasibility of such systems in general on the following web page: http://www.nigelhewitt.co.uk/diving/rant/#gills Quote (following an explanation of the quantity of oxygen in so
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by steve_barham 13y ago
Seems a somewhat low barrier for entry, if a 'design concept' consists of putting an action button on a notification.
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by steve_barham 13y ago
I'm with you on the type checking (although this particular library doesn't seem to offer much in that space). That said, I'd argue that modern tooling (e.g. IDEA, and by association the static analysis toolchain in Teamcity)
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by steve_barham 13y ago
I don't like this. I'm strongly of the opinion that SQL is a beautiful language, able to express in terse yet readable statements operations which would take many pages of Java to execute. Why try and wrap it up, and pretend that
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by steve_barham 13y ago
I want to test this product, and I'm in a position where I could spend real money on a purchase or subscription to this service in the event that it does what we need. Unfortunately, as soon as I see that data is sent off-site, I immediatel
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by steve_barham 14y ago
As a fairly experienced Java developer, I don't agree with this article. It reads more like a desperate fantasy, than a reasoned argument. The rapidity with which you can get started with other languages and frameworks has very little to do