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As the author of the Android app, it's pretty interesting and exciting to see an article on this. The project was an attempt to save or at least document this language which might …

Thanks for these, but I'd still say "Don't forget Guava".

"Many developers look at NoSQL engines—such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Hadoop" Noone uses Hadoop as a database. On the other hand, HBase which uses HDFS as underlying storage…

Nothing new here. As the article mentions, it's the Babelfish from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've wanted to build one myself since I read the book, but the fundamental …

I like the write-up, but I disagree with the reasoning to avoid STM. It sounds a lot like "avoid ConcurrentHashMap in Java". It's true that web applications mostly persist their da…

I like the fact that you tied the Watson api and the Telegram api together in a simple app, but it's a bit far-fetched to claim that "building intelligent bots is not too hard" bas…

What's a homocide?

I would like to see IBM Watson come up with Lorenzo's oil with the medical literature that was available in 1986. Since the parents of a sick boy came up with this treatment, all o…

Loved reading the book.

Examples look great with Java 8. Very excited to try version 3.

No lander?? :-(

Appreciate the article and the similarities that you point out between Rust and Clojure but I would not say syntax is one of them.

Impala, imitating Google's Dremel, is specifically designed for OLAP scenarios with its columnar storage structure and the compression algorithms that go along with it. This is not…

Java 8

Out of the ones you listed, Haskell would be the most difficult for sure. For quick prototyping though, like others mentioned, the tools around the language would make a bigger imp…

"Haskell and LISP both have minimal syntax compared to C++, C# and Java". I agree that LISP does but I can't really say the same thing for Haskell, especially when you get into the…

23AndMe doesn't tell you much about your DNA actually, they can only tell you some things about already known variations. If you really wanna know everything about your DNA, you sh…

This is not news, this is something very basic related to direct navigation traffic vs. paid traffic. If 50% of traffic is through direct navigation (ppl typing www.yourcompany.com…

This guy also wrote great articles about Haskell and Erlang on defmacro.org. I wonder why they don't use any of that in RethinkDB.

The whole "protecting intellectual property" thing could work if it was possible to issue patents in an unbiased and consistent way but patent examiners are human beings and they d…

Yea, the people who actually build this stuff should have a greater say in whether it should be patented or not I think.

I don't think their big contract with Lockheed Martin should be a good indicator of actual quantum computing. What they built is probably optimized for some of the problems that Lo…

It sure is important but who is to say C-style syntax is better than Lisp-style syntax and vice versa. Obviously the NBL should have a sensible and consistent syntax but it has to …