ShardPhoenix

They're clearly describing the opinions of (mainland) China, not the factual situation.

Intellij IDEA isn't so bad as an IDE (it's faster and less buggy than the Eclipse Scala plugin last time I checked), but SBT is utterly horrible. It's so awful I'd literally strongly prefer to use Ant (ie clunky scripting in XML) instead.

While Scala is indeed a bit overly complex (concept-wise), in practice working with both at an "enterprise" I've found it better overall than Java. Also, neither Kotlin nor Java 8 are available in non-beta form yet.

My biggest complaint about Scala isn't the language itself, but the flakiness/immaturity of some of the libraries/frameworks/tools compared to Java.

Just because genetics is important doesn't mean that talking doesn't help - and the difference is that talking is in the parents' control.

This might be an issue of thinking on the margin - that given their starting points, it's theoretically easier to get Israel or Russia to meet (leftist) American standards than to get Sudan to meet them.

Just because you brain is frozen doesn't necessarily mean that it will stay that way for long enough, or that it will remain in a readable state.

In this app we're doing a lot of serializing and deserializing of large JSON objects (using Jackson in Java and Json4S-Jackson in Scala), which is the main performance bottleneck.

># Generally, on an average, 1 line of Scala = 10 lines of Java. That's less maintainable LOC (it can be argued otherwise, but just assume it's a good thing)

># Performance. Now this is where Scala really shines. Scala's base performance is almost near Java's in most real world scenarios.

Scala's great, but don't overhype it. I just finished re-writing a mid-sized (~30k LOC) API app from Java (Play 1) to Scala (Scalatra). In this case the code size was reduced to about 40% of the original, but we needed about 50% more CPU and 100% more RAM to get comparable performance.

It was still well worth it - aside from the reduction in the size of the code there are additional maintainability benefits from immutability and other nice aspects of idiomatic Scala.

> We’re making faster and more powerful CPUs, but getting the same kind of subjective application performance that we did a decade ago.

My modern computer with an SSD feels subjectively faster/snappier to me than any computer I've owned in the past.

The joke being that before they switched to the hyphenated url, it could be read as expertsexchange.com

Someone who writes interesting things (often with a lot of statistical analysis) on http://www.gwern.net and Less Wrong.

If you're going to be that dramatic about it you could at least give some examples.

Having it externally can be an advantage in that it doesn't matter if you have an extraneous space when you type the code in because it will be cleaned up by the formatter, whereas making it part of the language makes that an error (and possible quite a confusing one).

Having good ease of doing business in general doesn't mean that Australia doesn't have a specific problem with startup equity and tax.

You might refuse if you're pre-commiting to fairness (which could be correct in some situations and decision theories).

Perhaps there's a delay in doing those 14 different requests? My phone is very fast when downloading apps, but sometimes still takes a long time to load a page.

(I misclicked and downvoted this instead of upvoting, apologies).

One of the campaigns in the Warcraft 3 expansion works like this (Warcraft 3 has RPG-style heroes leading the armies).

The fix for this is to give people the option to sell the items to the government at some high fraction (eg 75%) of the valuation, instead of paying the taxes.

It shows how fast computer technology moves these days that he spends the whole article talking about how hard and far-off this tech is, then casually mentions that it might be available in as little as 5 years.

Java is the reason that Scala has had any significant interest at all.

The fact that you are so emotionally invested in the subject is a good reason why you shouldn't be the one writing or creating the article in the first place.

Instead of notability, I'd prefer criteria of verifiability (ie there must be reliable sources) and objectivity (ie no marketing or self-promotion).

The concept of novelty accounts goes back to the earliest days of electronic text-based communication, and probably back to newspaper letter columns and whatnot before that.

No, it's always been about AI:

"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." - I. J. Good, 1965

Diablo 3 has some issues (mainly rareness and badness of legendary items and excessive difficulty/frustration in Inferno), but I've still found it the most fun game I've played in quite a while. The most important part of the game - skills and combat - is really excellent.

He may have been right not to get caught in the bubble hype, but the internet has been revolutionary - sometimes literally.

While I sort-of agree with your point, I think you're being unnecessarily hostile here.

I don't think Benford's law applies here: it's about the first digit of numbers (that are distribute in a certain way), but in most cases the first digit of a price will be denominating dollars, not cents.