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10 mortal java sins
Jul. 14th, 2009 11:18 amhere
1. Lack of closure
2. Lack of first class function
3. Primitive types
4. Autoboxing and autounboxing
5. Lack of generics reification
6. Unavoidable generics warnings
7. Impossibility to pass a void to a method invocation
8. No native proxy mechanism
9. Poor switch ... case statement
10. Checked exception
1. Lack of closure
2. Lack of first class function
3. Primitive types
4. Autoboxing and autounboxing
5. Lack of generics reification
6. Unavoidable generics warnings
7. Impossibility to pass a void to a method invocation
8. No native proxy mechanism
9. Poor switch ... case statement
10. Checked exception
Hertz gold card
Jul. 14th, 2009 12:17 pmTrying to rent a car for two weeks in Greece.
With Hertz card and with a discount: 1228.54 EUR ("special price")
Without the card and/or discount: 1448.30 USD ("nothing special price")
(oh, and Hertz does not have child seats over there in Athens)
With Hertz card and with a discount: 1228.54 EUR ("special price")
Without the card and/or discount: 1448.30 USD ("nothing special price")
(oh, and Hertz does not have child seats over there in Athens)
the dawn of new era
Jul. 14th, 2009 10:38 pmhackerdojo
noisebridge
A guy teaches Haskell in Noisebridge, and it seems like it could be the best place to learn it fast and efficient.
noisebridge
A guy teaches Haskell in Noisebridge, and it seems like it could be the best place to learn it fast and efficient.
white males
Jul. 14th, 2009 10:41 pmSo how does it happen that when I come to work, we, foreigners, are the majority; but as soon as you go to a Scala, or a Haskell talk - wow, wow, half of the people are called Jason, the other half are Brians; maybe one or two Russians, one from India, one from Japan, and that's it. Rarely a female.