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Nope... US$120k is most likely the base price (car + taxes). The Certificate of Enrolment (CoE) is market rate, and right now it's an additional SG$85k to SG$111k depending on the …

I looked into Vue + Webpack vs Vue + Brunch on my last project. I ended up with Brunch because the requirements are fairly basic and Brunch are easier to grok. Had the requirements…

The Scala example, yes... The Elixir one? Is it actually a Monad? I figure it's simply destructuring + pattern matching (against the value of the first tuple value, :ok or :error a…

I believe these are referred to Railway-Oriented Programming. I've seen several other examples for Elixir (incl. ones using macros), but by far this is the 'cleanest' syntax :) Her…

IMO the ProcessBuilder class is not a very good example, as the operators are designed to match the existing shell / bash ones (e.g. `#>>` is similar in behaviour to bash's `>>`).

> Scala core library is littered with :: +: and other nonsensical operators. They are very useful. With the two you mentioned (:: and +:) they can be used for pattern matching in a…

I'm currently working with Scala and recently dabbling with Elixir and Phoenix. It's a good language and great platform, however, I still prefer static typing. I'm still getting us…

> Nothing really changed, you could write Android apps on Kotlin before, as well as on any other JVM language. But now "Kotlin is the hero". The announcement shows Google making a …

Faster CPU does not eliminate GC pauses if your workload consumes a large amount of RAM. This is one of the other benefits which Zing provides.

VMs adds a noticeable overhead / performance hit. Besides the benefits the new JIT provides, Zing will help you if your workload runs with / consumes over 8GB of RAM. At this point…

Yeah, this is another problem that I had. Plenty of full-tower cases these days support EATX, but SSI-EEB not so much (at least, the ones that can support it out-of-the-box). In th…

For me it brings a lot of benefits: easier to find parts, consumer-level parts pricing, and lower TDP. I'm running a dual Xeon as you mentioned, through buying ex-fleet parts at le…

> Hence, Buku (after my son's nickname, meaning close to the heart in my language). Coincidentally, `Buku` translates to `Book` in Indonesian...

> Functional programming has nothing to do with declarative/imperative programming styles. > The "functional" part determines the architecture by which the code is structured oppos…

Yes, certainly not a normal nor common view, but as you said, a lot of people seems to share it.

> Marvel Comics recently fired an illustrator for hiding Islamist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian references in his art. His ideas were "normal" in his country - should that have …

I think the JVM is a really good runtime, and somehow its poor reputation came from Java applet security holes and the verbosity of the Java language. And no, I don't think you are…

In terms of language: yes, you are correct. I had seriously contemplated switching to F# before Scala, and attended a full-day workshop for it, however the dealbreaker for me was t…

I had been working in the Windows / .NET ecosystem for almost a decade prior to my current role. I always thought C# was a nice language to work in, CLR is a really capable runtime…

I'm not sure why you attribute this to self-importance. It's a real risk and a fair concern. USA border and immigration officers sounds hostile and antagonising from the stories I …

There's an overview with data and sources in another section of the website [1]. I think the key difference in Australia and USA is that the Australian government, due to our exten…

What Government earns from tobacco taxation [1] is eclipsed by the cost of healthcare and economic impact from smoking [2]. [1] - http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-13-ta…

I use Codeship [1] for personal (private) project and Travis CI [2] for open source ones. I had also use AppVeyor [3] for one of my Windows web app project. I chose Codeship since …

Thanks! I agree Ruby looks to be far user-friendly in this context. Just to add, my work revolves around the JVM ecosystem, but mostly in Scala and some Kotlin... Both already prov…

> You get to use Ruby, which [...] remains the most extraordinarily beautiful and luxurious language I’ve yet to encounter. I've used Ruby sporadically as gap-fill in small project…