bradboimler

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I guess Java saw the writing on the wall and shifted into high gear. The rate of language development has shot up. Check out all these changes to the language.

I get the sense that the people who think these out are smart and deliberate. I like deliberate.

And there's more coming. Value classes (custom, compound primitives is my understanding) is only one example. The fact that that document even exists is exciting to me. I like reading the instruction manuals for my tools!

The standardized documentation, the culture, the tools, the libraries. After stumbling around C++ all of that was a breath of fresh air. Java is a joy for me. I've been doing it since the 1.1, 1.2 days.

And so y'all know, right now I'm being paid to write Kotlin. I fully intend to integrate its styles and idioms. I get why people like it. Every now and then I do go, "Huh. That's neat." I'd still pick Java over it if I were given a choice. But I gotta pay the bills.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Modern Java is exciting. I choose it willingly for personal projects. And it remains my preference for professional ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm a big, big fan of sci fi and I get that it's a classic. I watched it once and it bored me to death. I couldn't believe it's standard movie length; it felt like it was six hours long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'll watch what MKBHD has to say about it but that's about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, man, it would've been PERFECT if they sold that. I regret not going when I had the chance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0.999... (infinite nines) and 1 are equal. They are two representations of the same number, like 0.5 and 1/2 (one half) are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I recently watched it and didn't regret doing so. Picard was way more fun for me than Reddit had me thinking it was going to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm actually Latino and I don't hate Latinx. I feel it comes from a good place and I also feel genderless language is important.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I do have a smartphone but I tend to only use it as a consumption device. I prefer to use a laptop connected to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse to produce stuff.

I prefer the laptop even for simple things like filling out online forms

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