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For those interested in other Java alternatives on Android, check out Scaloid: https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid.

Because in this case, it's an alternative to a language (Objective C) with a not so boring esoteric syntax.

Swift has a built in option type

“if let actualNumber = possibleNumber.toInt() {

    println("\(possibleNumber)  value: \ (actualNumber)")

} else {

    println("\(possibleNumber) could not be converted to an integer")

}”

Nice to see the Apple's language developers embracing functional programming by providing a clean implementation of the Maybe Monad as well as support for closures.

The median is actually not 75 exactly, I looks to be 74ish on the graph. This makes sense.

From 1954 - 1998 The boy name Michael reigned supreme. I'm sure this run had a lot to do with the ArchAngel, the Basketball player, and the pop star.

The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939, so it makes sense that the median age for Dorothy's is around 75 years of age.

I wonder what other pop culture events influenced naming trends.

Curtis "50cent" Jackson seems to have followed in Dre's footsteps and now has his own headphone line http://smsby50.com/ . Wouldn't it be interesting if they were acquire by a Google/Microsoft/Amazon?

Depending on the details of the deal, this may make Dr Dre hip hop's first billionaire.

Not it's not, rebutting another poster who is commenting about Play (a modern java web development framework) in a article that is about modern java web development frameworks. Your comment is counter productive to this conversation, and the purpose of Hackernews in general.

I don't find mark242's comment off putting or condescending at all. He's just telling is like it is.

Of course there are Java developers who can kick ass with Spring, Hibernate, Servlet containers, and war deployments, but all of these tools are huge, bloated, and starting to show their age. Modern frameworks like Play make things simpler for those of us who don't have +7 year JEE experience with Spring and Hibernate.

>Let me put this clearly: asynchronous APIs are always more complicated than blocking APIs..

IMO I would rather use a single threaded server and manage synchronicity explicitly with callbacks, composable promises, comprehensions, monads, and "other functional shenanigans" vs having to sync shared state across threads and manage thread pools.

>There is completely no need to prevent users from retaining a copy once they watched it.

For Netflix there's one big reason to: PROFIT

And still, he failed to put forward a meaningful rebuttal to DHH's criticism of TDD.

>poor people use Facebook on a computer.

low end Android and Nokia handsets cost less than the cheapest PCs and Laptops.

>I still have a very tired feel in my eyes at the end of a long day.

I asked my optometrist about this. He said that our extraocular muscles get tired like any other muscle on the body, and it's normal to feel that way after staring at a screen for extended periods.

FWIW I have good vision and don't wear glasses.

I don't see anything wrong with putting more games on Thursday. As long as teams still play 16 games a season, it won't make any difference to fans. The league is great because every game is important, not because every game is played on sunday.

Because their cores solve the same problems, and it would be overkill to pull in both projects for views or models. Also, I don't think backbone.js models solve any problems in an Angular application.

Any chance you release these on mobile?

>Holy shit, the SAME AES key is used for everyone? Good god WhatsApp, what the fuck are you doing?

Cashing out billions why we criticize from a web forum.

Shitty clones would've been made irregardless of him removing the app from the store.

Off course he did.

No matter how many times I read this, I always enjoy.

Well he damn near sexually assaulted her in public. Once he rested his hand on on her leg like she was his girlfriend, she had every right to be weary of this guy.

That's because your not a sociopath.

Go never intrigued me anyway for that matter. It's supposed simple syntax was not enough of a motivator for me to chose it over a higher level language (Clojure, Scala, Etc) that requires a bit more elbow grease to become proficient it.

Why would you paint an entire programming community as bitter? That is extremely close minded.

The author clearly contradicted themself. Did you read the article before downvoting? Also why invoke a false duality like someone being part of the Scala or Clojure community is mutually exclusive? For what its worth, I have used and am a fan of both languages. That won't stop me from pointing out a flawed post though.

After modeling Clojure's Card Deck as a simple sequence of maps, the author models Scala's card deck in an overly complex way using a Deck Class with a nested card class, and each card nesting four distinct case classes to represent suit (Yikes!). The author defends the terrible Scala design by writing:

> Sure, you could eschew objects in Scala and mimic Clojure by using generic maps/vectors/lists/sets for all your structured data needs, but that's clearly not how Scala is meant to be used.

Scala isn't "meant to be used" any way. Scala is a lots of things (often times to its detriment) but opinionated is not one. The author even alludes to this early in the post:

> Ten years ago, I would have said that my ideal dream language is one that provides the flexibility to program in any style. I want to be able to choose object-oriented or functional, immutable or mutable, high-level abstractions or low-level speed. With respect to this ideal, Scala clearly wins, supporting more programming styles than Clojure.

Classic fanboyism, as the author purposely created a shitty Scala example. I would advise that someone investigating functional languages on the JVM take this post with a grain of salt.

One with the programming underlords.

>At least in javascript it's easier with the && operator: str && str.doSomething()

Mixing a Boolean check and a potentially side effecting function in the same line of code is a neat hack, but it seems like it would make code harder to maintain. Also, what about handling the non existence of str?

Very true that this talk did seem to be bias to Clojure. As and Scala user myself, I think his critique of Scala was fair.