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> . We seem to do stuff that's out of the normal experience (Python to create thousands of individual reports on thousands of rows of postgres data per report) Sounds like you need…

I heard lack of effective management structure was a far worse consequence of Valve's unusual structure. Heard influence became based on connections and favors, not good results or…

We have found H2 in Postgres mode to be the fastest way to test db stuff, at least in Postgres and Java. In Go you might lose most of the speed advantage since its not running "in …

Java meets your requirements. It gets a lot of shit but there's reasons why its so widely used. The standard libraries + community are larger than Go, you can find a library to do …

> There would be no A bomb without this, for example, nor US moon missions. These were mostly German weapons scientists brought to the US near the end of WWII. The alternative was …

> I seriously doubt this was ever an existential in the sense of the shipping cost itself destroying a business. I've read many e-commerce blogs with US sellers lamenting that they…

Its not just a Rust problem, I've run into the same thing in Java and I'm sure it exists elsewhere. The only answer I can come up with is to keep your app cleanly divided into modu…

Conspiracy, but I don't think the US ever stopped researching nuclear propulsion. There's too many advantages. They built a few working and miniaturized test engines in the 60's bu…

Very true. IMO many people that hate XML config files just haven't used an IDE that validates schema. Its super nice to have auto-complete and property validation on config files, …

Very Java-esque name for the largest Java project there is. I like it. "Eclipse AdoptOpenJDK Adoptium" has a good ring to it. Reminds me of the SharedSessionContractImplementor I w…

You can probably just check the referrer header and display a giant nag message to people coming from that business listing. "This website is not associated with company X which ha…

That's far too optimistic about storage. For small off-grid systems, you need ~5 days of battery capacity to ride out lack of wind/sun. On a large scale you'll need less because yo…

To those lamenting that they're scraping... Google is the biggest scraper of them all. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft. All the big boys scrape voraciously, yet try their best …

Java is very similar to C++. Its boring in the sense that most things have been around forever and really old code is terrible but you still have to deal with it because backwards …

That doesn't make Java a bad choice for building new things

I haven't used XML in our Java apps in many years. Most of them don't contain a single XML file, unless they use Maven, then they have one.

IMO Ruby is already being left behind. HTTP/2 is a good example. Rails doesn't support it, and I can't find anything recent saying support will be added soon. Java is notorious for…

I think job descriptions are just marketing materials for developers at a lot of places. Advertising your COBOL just gets you people that want to make more COBOL. Every job I take,…

Switch to React if you can. I've been using Angular for years and the solution to problems is generally "more magic". Its so convoluted these days I don't think its even realistic …

Trust me, its the lack of standard library. Python and Java are both "batteries included" . You can write apps decently with just 5-10 dependencies if you want. Every JS app I've w…

> at some point you will have a look into your myriad of nodejs dependencies and see with horror that they rely on C++ extension This is a big selling point of the most boring lang…

This is a great idea!

For Deno this seems like a very good choice. Pick the good parts from Go and reuse them. I applaud Deno for going its own way with the module system though... That's been a hot top…

Parsing minified JS takes up quite a bit of load time for most sites. Binary formats for VM languages aren't just smaller, they're many times faster and easier to parse and verify

This is actually how maven is for Java as well. the repo isn't official but its so widespread its defacto.