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AutoValue beats Lombok hands down. Not least because it is pure Java so no extra IDE support is needed.

Yes.

Yes it is an America-thing. If you're in the rest of the world move on, nothing to see here,

This.

Note how the Guardian headline has seamlessly converted the report's wording “display one or more characteristics that signal their potential vulnerability” to "are financially vul…

They could, though then there would be more trust issues about who hosts and controls the database. A database of which every participant keeps a copy, and with strong guarantees a…

You miss the point about trust. The trust issue that blockchain addresses for big banks is not "I'm worried you're a scam that will disappear with all my money". It's "I'm worried …

That it works as a sales pitch doesn't mean it's inaccurate. The focus of container work pre-Docker really was all about isolation not packaging.

The reason people build those models with those assumptions isn't some great conspiracy, it's merely because under those assumptions it's actually feasible to build models. Buildin…

Well the original article headline doesn't talk about anyone "wanting" anything at all -- I don't know, why would Wired repost articles from Quanta, changing only the headline? htt…

True but in fairness NextBSD was only ever a technology demo / proof of concept.

IntelliJ often shows latency, but it's not "slow", it's doing a stupendous amount of work behind the scenes and building an incredibly rich model of your code and your application.…

Excellent site, love it. I can't provide a funny story or eulogy, but have a scary one... "Microsoft Lync" [item 10 on the list right now] is not dead, it's aaaalllliiiiivvveeeee..…

In some ways agree, except that I do not find Taibbi's rage-driven ignorance-fuelled style in any way "emotionally satisfying".

"The Daily Mail coverage is worse" It always is.

You mean NIST not NSA, right?

Oh god yes, the Guardian was the last newspaper I read regularly (well that and the FT sometimes) but I gave it up because I just couldn't take the horrible whingey whiny columnist…

Yes absolutely, a good one is invaluable at helping the rest of the team be more productive.

"Under single payer system, it's illegal to purchase medicine or health care." Total utter FUD. It's legal and normal in each of the 3 countries I've lived&worked in with a single-…

> Oracle Solaris is irrelevant. Amen to that.

I kind of agree, but feel a need to point out that the "absurd cash piles" are a byproduct of tax rules, not of (alleged) timidity on the part of Cook et al.

> I find good Windows machines are as reliable as Mac's ones. Yes. But they are still fugly.