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I know it sounds far-fetched, by I am wondering. I had my newly created eBay account permanently cancelled, with no appeal, today. The account had a single item (a Svalt cooling do…

I need to buy a new laptop for development and some gaming, so I want a 'best'. I looked for 32Gb laptops but I couldn't find any (poor google fu?) The default for a developer seem…

To anyone doing the course or interested in Scala, 2 recommendations: * the blog of Daniel Westheide ( http://danielwestheide.com/ ) has a series of posts (starting at http://danie…

Multi-national organisation unable to sell Google Nexus 4/10 in Ireland, where they have their European HQ. Like if they cared about multinational, except to reroute taxes...

I'm looking for a PaaS platform ala Heroku that lets me deploy SBT web projects (Play Framework 2.0 + Scala) and supports Webservices. AFAIK Heroku's cedar architecture doesn't sup…

+1 I believe knowing what interests a user has, or what experience, may help a lot to filter people who speak without knowing the facts (when talking about programming or startups,…

Blog down, cache copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... PS: ironic that I saw it was down after reading endianswap's comment :P

Play 2 is not using that "magic" anymore, so you won't hit that problem (which, on the other hand, wasn't 'too' common). Give it a try. It's worth it, honestly.

Sorry for being "rantish", but most of the "negative" comments I'm reading around here are from people who didn't spend a single second reading the manual. Yes, I'm not partial, I'…

Someone should send the first part to stephen colebourne, as an explanation on why spreading Scala FUD and acting like a victim will only spread hate about his behaviour. Yes, I sh…

I meant irrelevant to the fact that they are talking about it. Obviously, if they mention negative points on the language (and those points are true) it's bad for the language. If …

To sum it up (feel free to add corrections) one guy put a blog post saying that Parallel collections had many issues, etc etc... and the reality was that he misunderstood them some…

Given the amount of comments on Scala (positive or negative, that's irrelevant) I'm not so sure it will be a fringe language for long. It must be somehow relevant for so many peopl…