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kaidaxon Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

Bitwarden

kaidaxon Ask HN: Should I accept a Scala Dev job?

Yes, you should

kaidaxon By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence

4chan is extremely tiny compared to social media platforms.

kaidaxon Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language

The people making this library aren't Scala refugees - they're a Scala shop that uses Kotlin on Android only, so they decided to bring over their idioms.

kaidaxon Java's Original Sin (2009)

Kotlin is a much larger than Scala on syntax, has 100+ keywords and built-ins, compiles slower, all while having a way weaker OO system and and doing a small fraction of what Scala does.

kaidaxon Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?

> Object-oriented style inheritance is unsound (inheritance is not subtyping)

Most modern OO type systems rule out unsound inheritance. (Java, Scala, etc.)

kaidaxon Why are pedestrian deaths increasing in the US?

Well, there are no such restrictions anywhere in Europe AFAIK.

kaidaxon OSGi After 20 Years

You can easily get the good parts of OSGi, without its cruft and complexity: https://github.com/7mind/slides/raw/master/02-roles/target/r... (by advanced DI with garbage collection)

kaidaxon Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman

> All of the most successful tech companies are platforms

During a gold rush - sell shovels.

kaidaxon Go is Google's language, not ours

What ad hominem? That Java ecosystem is wholly dependent on crazy amount of magic is not a personal attack, really, but a mere sad admission.

kaidaxon Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs

AGPL is what they used before. It does nothing vs. Amazon because they don't care if they have to share changes - they can host it anyway

kaidaxon Give Me Back My Monolith

Actually, people do think about combining both approaches, see the Roles concept - https://github.com/7mind/slides/raw/master/02-roles/target/r...

kaidaxon Give Me Back My Monolith

We recently gave a name to that One-Binary-Many-Services approach - Roles.

https://github.com/7mind/slides/raw/master/02-roles/target/r...

kaidaxon Give Me Back My Monolith

There are ways to keep the benefits of microservices such as isolation, while avoiding distributed computing, for example, roles:

Slides - https://github.com/7mind/slides/raw/master/02-roles/target/r...

kaidaxon Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]

Doraene doesn't work for Lightbend though.

kaidaxon Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem

Some companies abuse this style of interview to get free work done by interview candidates and then reject them.