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After convincing my employer to move away from MS office
I'm curious how you managed that
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This is sad news but I respect your decision. Thank you for what you've done for this community.
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I'm gettin there myself; I took a closer look at Lemmy the other day. But man do I prefer the UI of Kbin.
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Reddit still seems like a big one, unfortunately. I don't contribute any longer but I haven't been able to stop lurking.
I've noticed your username and I'd be happy to talk to you about Java, if you'd like. It's my favorite programming ecosystem.
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I'm in a Discord server. I'd love for some folks in there to try out Matrix but I'm too scared to ask. Even if I wasn't there's still the issue of Matrix being too techie.
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FreeTaxUSA is free for federal. They charge (a reasonable amount) to file state taxes.
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You can pay friends with Pay. You can't do that with Wallet.
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Peer to peer payments are going away
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I'll take the compliment, thank you!
When I do it on my terms, yes, I do enjoy Java in particular and programming in general. A lot. At a certain level it's not complicated or mystical at all. All you're really doing is simple math (adding, subtracting, etc) on numbers, bunching them into representations that make sense for your problem (how a point is an x coordinate and a y coordinate, for example), moving little arrows that point to said representations, etc. You combine these very simple primitives into a predictable system that solves whatever you're working on. Yeah, you do have to be able to abstract this in your brain. Pictures on paper helps sometimes; I do that myself.
I come in with a maintainability mindset. I enjoy writing simple, to the point, straightforward code that most importantly, I can read and understand in 10 years. Java's "verboseness" is a feature in that respect. Have you tried maintaining someone else's Kotlin? Forgetaboutit.
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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.
bradboimler Now • 93%
Modern Java is exciting. I choose it willingly for personal projects. And it remains my preference for professional ones.
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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.
bradboimler Now • 71%
I'll watch what MKBHD has to say about it but that's about it
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Oh, man, it would've been PERFECT if they sold that. I regret not going when I had the chance.
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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.
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We are happy to announce the general availability of our official Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code. Unlike the language servers offered by other VS Code extensions for Java, this language server is based on the OpenJDK JDK's `javac` co…
We’ve released an early edition of Element X in the Google Play Store.