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No, they're saying they are going to be "more open", which implies they were already open. No apology there (nor should there be).

Everyone will have a different take on this based on the kind of software they write. The bottom line is that math is pervasive at all levels of software engineering but it impacts…

You're making the dangerous assumption that a failed experiment is synonymous with no progress. We actually learn a lot more from failures than successes.

Yeah, screw progress and experimentation, right?

> The problem with Android's layout system (if I understand it correctly) is that you specify how things are arranged relative to each other, so you never really know where somethi…

Yes, you're right, I apologize for being a bit harsh.

> Sorry, we just wanted to give the background to the project and why in the post, rather than focussing too heavily on code. Your landing page should contain what your users want …

I'm excited. Not so much by the fact that Google now provides this service (which I may or may not use) but because this is going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on other IS…

Did you mean http://shrturl.co/EPUi5 ?

I haven't seen a single mention of parallelism in the 600+ page language manual. This will probably be done through libraries.

It was ordered and paid for by the catholic church, of course it's going to represent concepts of the catholic creed. If NASA ordered their rockets to be painted with science based…

> Unless you use Erlang or OS processes you are sharing memory. Actually, even actor-based systems share memory. If two actors A and B send a message to an actor C and expect a res…

> They should just deprecate it and switch to Go That would be a step backward, we really need generics and a reasonable support for exceptions on Android (or any large scale syste…

It's a bit of a disturbing read for a couple of reasons: - Going to an early stage start up as a young father is not a sacrifice, it's a selfish act. You are thinking more about yo…

For your point to stand, you'd have to spend some time explaining why you think Play is superior to DropWizard.

So what? I don't care who writes the article, all that matters is whether the content of the article is interesting. For this particular article, I think the answer is "Very", so t…

C++ is still a very big step forward compared to Fortran, Algol or Ada.

Developers will pay decent money for a "code" editor (an IDE), not a "text" editor. Text editors are dime a dozen and in that space, you are competing with much more than tools tha…

It always makes me chuckle when I see companies trying to ship a product (free or not) and realize a few months later that it's not picking up adoption. Then they decide to open so…

But these are not enforceable by the type system (at least in Haskell), kind of supporting my point that types alone are rarely sufficient :)

> write your types and your programs write themselves as the "only possible implementation". But there are only very few type signatures for which this is true, even if you stick t…

I'm getting tired of reading: > This is why we hear that Haskell reprise if it compiles, it works. If this were true then functions would not need bodies, you would just define the…

Dozens? I only have two, my real one and my fake one. I'm always logged in my fake one on my non-default browser.

Spring's DI is terrible but Guice (and on mobile, Dagger) is really easy to work with, statically typed and has increased the maintainability and testability of our code base treme…