danielatc

English is not my native language. And these kind of debates demand a very careful choice of words that are often not easy for me to find.

That's why I'm rather reserved in these types of conversations, not because I doubt that my point is valid.

As I tried to state in my initial post: giving a problematic person like Uncle Bob a platform is a political act. Irrespective of whether it was conscious or not. So I wanted to educate as I assumed no bad intentions.

And to summarize the point I'm trying to make: promoting toxic people will drive away lots of underrepresented people from our industry which to me is a massive net loss.

Fortunately a lot of people within the thread can defend my point better than I can.

I prefer to listen rather than to speak up, but in this instance and context I felt it was the right thing to speak up for once to raise awareness in a circle that otherwise might be oblivious to the issue.

And yes the article I linked was certainly not the best. It was simply one example out of many that makes a case of him being problematic as I couldn't find a more canonical piece on the spot.

I've noticed that as well and got a reply from the creator on reddit.

And it's been a rather disappointing one... "Take the cancel culture mentaility and shove it up your ass."

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o2ly6f/friday_fac...

It's worse. Many (most?) Landlords already established so called shadow rents months or years ago in case the rent cap wasn't legal. This allows them to retroactively collect the difference of the past rents. So a lot of tenants will now have to pay massive sums to their landlords.

Thanks! Daniel here, the developer of Codecks. While the majority of our customers are game studios, there's no reason why it doesn't work for other teams. As long as you and your team are happy with a more playful appearance for a project management tool, I'd suggest to give it try :)

I've recently started to integrate a linter to all of my tool chains, and I don't want to live without one. So it's great to see such wide-spread support.

My tool of choice though is eslint and its react plugin [1]. Which seems to have some additional features like enforcing some best practises.

It's probably also worth posting this guide [2] from awesome Dan Abramov of how to setup linting for Sublime Text 3 and/or webpack.

[1] https://github.com/yannickcr/eslint-plugin-react

[2] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/lint-like-it-s-2015-6987d44c...

Interestingly there is something like syntax highlighting in natural language too. One example is that all nouns in German are capitalised which helps a lot in the context of ambiguity. To give you an idea of a case in which it actually might help:

  The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.

vs.

  The Complex houses married and single Soldiers and their Families.

Other languages use different markers to indicate different parts of speech.

A point that could be made is that (written) language evolved for a long time and the concept of "syntax highlighting" is embedded in at least some of them. Probably because it has proven useful.

There even is a 3D version of the SmoothLife algorithm out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaOnOVGepI

Very very cool stuff!

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I would be very happy to hear from some of you in the hn crowd!

Here the version of the documentation from the git repository: https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki/Javajson

it states that the jackson library ( http://jackson.codehaus.org/ ) is included in the framework which allows for type safe json bindings

I think you need to reconsider your views regarding play. Version 2.0 has been a major improvement regarding a lot of issues. Asynchronous Requests are inbuilt as well as Websockets. (And Json serialization is as easy as Json.toJson()) I agree that static controllers are not always ideal considering that Java does not support inheritance of static methods, but the arguments of why static controllers are chosen can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5193721/616974

Still I think that developing with the play framework is a very productive process and can be compared with the likes of ror/django etc with the benefits of type safety all the way (including the templates)

This is barely a guide. It just describes the problem, names some solutions but does not elaborate on those. Not too helpful really...

The one thing that bugs me about the Google AI Challenges is that they do not really encourage using modern AI techniques. It's all about intelligent _developers_ rather than writing intelligent _software_. I really would like to see a challenge which is all about data: identifying patterns and learning to make predictions – rather than developing yet another heuristic for a minimax algorithm...