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pablosantaon Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

Do you have any plans for scripting?

Java as a Programming Language? I don't think it's dying anytime soon.

Java as a Runtime Platform? I don't think it's dying anytime soon either.

JAVA might be a little bit old (in terms of technology) but more modern languages has a lot to do to catch up in:

* Multiple Relational DB support (I am still need to see good support for Python or NodeJS for databases like SYBASE, INGRES, others)

* Library ecosystem (there is a library for almost anything in JAVA) * Installed based (there is A LOT of Java Software out there)

I can see modern languages for the JVM like KOTLIN or SCALA fulfilling the places where JAVA is cumbersome.

Having said all this, unlike what was real 10 years ago, I definitely see that right now there are more JOB offerings for engineers in other languages (JavaScript/Node, Typescript, Python, and maybe even GO).

[EDIT]: grammar.

pablosantaon Show HN: Guess the movie based on the AI generated poster

Liked it very much. Some of them pretty obvious, some of them not.

pablosantaon Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

Heartbreaking. I've been a long time user of DHCPD but (as I think many of us) never knew or think about all the people and hard work behind it. Thanks for everything.

pablosantaon The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

OP could have added Andy’s need to remind everybody he attended Cornell as another proof of his point.

pablosantaon Ask HN: Where do you live?

ASU: Asuncion, Paraguay.

pablosantaon WhatsApp is down WORLDWIDE

Facebook's extremely popular instant messaging service for mobile phones is down right now. WhatsApp official status twitter account (https://twitter.com/wa_status) shows no activity since 2014. Twitter users are actively tweeting about it right now (https://twitter.com/search?q=whatsapp).

pablosantaon Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts

I could really use something like this. It's a recurring problem I have: finding interesting podcast material to listen to while working out.

Podcast suggestions should remain on the front page longer than articles do in HN though. Since listening to a podcast is way more time consuming than reading an article.

Thanks for sharing!

pablosantaon Killing Off Wasabi

Has Joel jumped the shark?

http://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sha...

Related blog post from a couple of years ago.

pablosantaon Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X

Looks neat! Won't display metadata correctly on PosgreSQL 8.3 or earlier versions though. This is the error I'm getting: "column "typcategory" does not exist".

UPDATE: added 8.3 version number.

pablosantaon Freelance or job?

That's a very good two-piece advice. I would add this: - The ones that use technologies you enjoy working with.

pablosantaon Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

It keeps crashing on me. I'm on Lion. :(

Looks good though. I thought it was going to be YET ANOTHER ECLIPSE distribution, but apparently it's not. It seems to be pretty fast. Hope they fix the crashing issue on Lion soon.

pablosantaon Stuck due to “knowing too much”

Agree. 100%.

pablosantaon Google: Let it snow

Just plain old awesomeness from Google...

pablosantaon Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class

It's probably because they're using other filters as well and not only using score.

I.E., it would make sense they only want to hire people under certain age, or certain academic enrollment status... Who knows...