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Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by jlarocco »

ecopoesis wrote: post #22
jlarocco wrote: post #9

... import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Comparators; import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Functions; import com.gs.collections.impl.block.procedure.CollectionAddProcedure; import com.gs.collections.impl.collection.mutable.AbstractCollectionAdapter; ... Gees, I feel sorry for people still stuck using Java.

Why? Because Java has good, built-in, worldwide namespacing that always works? Or because Java has IDEs that pull in imports automatically so developers don't have to think useless shit? Or is it because you're fanboi who dislikes Java merely because it's Java and choose any opportunity, not matter how inappropriate, to disparege it. Java is by no means perfect, but let's at least pick on it for the things it actuall…

If it's "useless shit", why have it there at all?

But hey, at least you have a fancy, complicated IDE keeping track of all the "useless shit" for you, right?

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by ntkachov »

jlarocco wrote: post #31
ecopoesis wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Because Java has good, built-in, worldwide namespacing that always works? Or because Java has IDEs that pull in imports automatically so developers don't have to think useless shit? Or is it because you're fanboi who dislikes Java merely because it's Java and choose any opportunity, not matter how inappropriate, to disparege it. Java is by no means perfect, but let's at least pick on it for the things it actuall…

If it's "useless shit", why have it there at all? But hey, at least you have a fancy, complicated IDE keeping track of all the "useless shit" for you, right?

I think you missed the "computer" part in "computer programming language". It's there because it needs to be for the JVM. It resolves naming conflicts so that having two "component.java" files in the same project don't end up blowing the whole thing apart.

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by arcdrag »

runn1ng wrote: post #23
ecopoesis wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Because Java has good, built-in, worldwide namespacing that always works? Or because Java has IDEs that pull in imports automatically so developers don't have to think useless shit? Or is it because you're fanboi who dislikes Java merely because it's Java and choose any opportunity, not matter how inappropriate, to disparege it. Java is by no means perfect, but let's at least pick on it for the things it actuall…

I hate auto-generated code by IDEs. It always produces stuff like... that.

You realize that any modern language is nothing more than an abstraction layer to automatically generate code in a lower level language right? The only difference here is that if you view the .java file in a plain text editor, you'll actually see that block. You won't see it in modern IDE's though. It gets automatically collapsed, as it is an aid to the compiler more than the developer.

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by timtamboy63 »

gringomorcego wrote: post #29

I fucking hate goldman sachs. Note because of politics. Not because of any financial action they've done. Because they hired that despicable fuck Ulrich Drepper. Seriously, the amount of nice, young people who were forever turned away from GNU/open source with a bad taste in their mouths because of that scumbag dipshit. I don't care if he was right % percentage of the time. The point of a project is to welcome users,…

Who is he, and where can I read more about why he's a despicable fuck?

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by Mithrandir »

timtamboy63 wrote: post #35
gringomorcego wrote: post #29

I fucking hate goldman sachs. Note because of politics. Not because of any financial action they've done. Because they hired that despicable fuck Ulrich Drepper. Seriously, the amount of nice, young people who were forever turned away from GNU/open source with a bad taste in their mouths because of that scumbag dipshit. I don't care if he was right % percentage of the time. The point of a project is to welcome users,…

Who is he, and where can I read more about why he's a despicable fuck?

Search "ulrich drepper arrogant" Seems he's has a bit of an attitude problem or something (or as LWN put it, "his blunt manner".) http://lwn.net/Articles/333755/

Edit: Here's an example (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78ufa/) I'm surprised how many people hate him, although I can understand their frustration.

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by jrockway »

timtamboy63 wrote: post #35
gringomorcego wrote: post #29

I fucking hate goldman sachs. Note because of politics. Not because of any financial action they've done. Because they hired that despicable fuck Ulrich Drepper. Seriously, the amount of nice, young people who were forever turned away from GNU/open source with a bad taste in their mouths because of that scumbag dipshit. I don't care if he was right % percentage of the time. The point of a project is to welcome users,…

Who is he, and where can I read more about why he's a despicable fuck?

Ulrich Drepper is the maintainer of glibc. He is sometimes terse and unhappy on mailing lists.

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by fizx »

gringomorcego wrote: post #29

I fucking hate goldman sachs. Note because of politics. Not because of any financial action they've done. Because they hired that despicable fuck Ulrich Drepper. Seriously, the amount of nice, young people who were forever turned away from GNU/open source with a bad taste in their mouths because of that scumbag dipshit. I don't care if he was right % percentage of the time. The point of a project is to welcome users,…

You sound like a considerate, thoughtful person as well.

Re: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by eddie_the_head »

joshu wrote: post #34

Heh. Morgan Stanley open sourced Aplus a long time ago.

Have you ever used it or any other APL? I'm currently getting familiar with K, which is the language Whitney and the company he founded (Kx Systems) after he left Morgan Stanley made, but from an open source implementation called Kona by Kevin Lawler and Scott Vokes: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
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