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New challenge: build your machines for low cost from commodity hardware, rent your machines out to millions of customers and never have a single customer have > 1% of the hardware …

Perhaps if HIV was endlessly highlighted by government and the media as a major problem in Sweden your analogy might have made some sense. In my opinion your post exemplifies the a…

I selected Mandarin at random. Perhaps I should have just put $RANDOM_SPOKEN_LANGUAGE ;)

If you look at stackoverflow surveys you'll notice that those using Scala are amongst the happiest users of any language and are very willing to continue using it. It's growing slo…

Wow. I've never seen anything that size on the roads here.

Thanks for the insight. I never really thought of that aspect. Over here I'm far more likely to collide with a corolla or vw polo than a giant Jeep etc.

A jetta would barely fit into my garage. If a "regular" pickup can swallow a jetta does that mean I can expect a "large" pickup to be bigger than my entire 5 bedroom house?

Thats quite a fascinating difference in culture/preference. Most people I know think Jettas are "too big" unless you have a family of 5 and need the extra space. Don't people find …

The American variant of the Jetta was recently a stripped down cheapened version compared to the jettas sold elsewhere.They even removed the multilink rear suspension for the US mo…

The Jetta is pretty big. For some reason Americans seem to classify it as a small sedan in most articles.

If Kotlin rocks your world, wait until you meet the Scala.

The reaction from some reminds me that some Java programmers will always resist change. Java's current feature set is the one true way (tm) and any features other languages have ar…

It will be caught as a compiler error. Since you would typically have the method signature declare that it returns the most general type it should be a non-issue. It's really no di…

val is a much better idea. Final is longer to type, in many cases as long as just declaring the type. We should be encouraging immutability not discouraging it by making it more ve…

Lombok has always been a hacky set of language extentions. It says a lot about the need for more language features in Java that developers have been willing to resort to using it. …