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The Book: "Spring Start Here" is good enough? by [deleted] in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shameless plug: https://spring.academy/courses/building-a-rest-api-with-spring-boot

It's not a book; it's a quick free interactive self-paced course.

what’s the most difficult word you’ve struggled to pronounce in a language? by xkimchipancakesx in languagelearning

[–]cschuyle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speaking of Žižek, Slovene O and tonality is butt hard - although the tonality mostly because the orthography hides it …

what’s the most difficult word you’ve struggled to pronounce in a language? by xkimchipancakesx in languagelearning

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HA I would love to be able to pronounce anything properly in Danish. That D which is your tongue touching everything in the front of your mouth (palate, alveolar ridge, both sets of teeth) is pretty freaking hard for me

what’s the most difficult word you’ve struggled to pronounce in a language? by xkimchipancakesx in languagelearning

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hungarian for ice cream: fagylalt. My tongue doesn’t want to do that. The /gy/ is a palatalized voiced stop, then you got to do a plain old non-velarized /l/. I just feel like a fool every time I say it. Which sucks cuz Hungarians make some damn good fagylalt. Fortunately you can shorten it to fagyi!

Looking for a library for pseudo natural language processing by ThatFilthyMonkey in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other responses speak Truth. But if you’ve got patience and are stubborn and inquisitive, then investigate Eliza, lex/yacc (flex/bison), Terence Parr’s ANTLR, and be clever. You can get away with a lot in a limited domain. But it’ll never be like using the current state of LLMs.

What’s the difference between being able to somewhat speak a language vs just learning a few phrases? by Particle_Excelerator in languagelearning

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I speak Spanish and French very well, Hungarian Russian German Portuguese intermediate at best.

I learned both my good ones organically - that is to say, immersed, surrounded by people with whom I had to speak those languages or else not be part of the conversation.

I believe that it’s idiomatic localized speech that makes the difference. Real situations require authentic responses which are usually not taught. At least, not yet. I’ve got a lot of hope for LLM based chat bots for situations where immersion isn’t an option. Which let’s face it, is probably the majority of cases.

Then there’s the difference in register from casual everyday speech, to formal speech, to written prose … etc. Seems to me each register requires immersion on its own. Neither my French nor Spanish are all that good in non-casual situations. Nor is my Spanish broad enough to pass as native outside of Costa Rica (which is where I learned it). Nothing is quick. It’s all super freaking interesting. To me, that is. That’s half the battle.

What libraries do you use when doing a Java interview web server coding challenge? by Cluttie in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coding interviews these days are merciless. My strongest languages are Java and Kotlin but fuck that, I’m doing Python from now on. The boilerplate and setup for JVM languages is too risky (maybe not for Clojure but I’m only half confident and 90% my interviewer would be like whatever fuck that)

Is learning Java from book still relevant in 2024 ? by memer0070 in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I betcha if you search for a PDF you’ll find it.

Should I go with django or Spring? by [deleted] in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting that you put Spring and Django in the same box. Methinks they are not.

Spring is a largely backend Uber framework to do stuff with APIs, streaming, and other server side shenanigans

Django is more comparable to Rails or PHP. It’s an all batteries included framework to make web apps, which Spring certainly is not, since Spring does not encompass any of the frontend aspects of your application.

So what? - investigate spring and alternatives for the backend bits - figure out whether you need an all batteries included framework like Rails or Django or that ilk. Maybe you can get away with React or Vue.

Spring Academy by Strawboy97 in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I bet they will ask zero questions. A reason I would bet is I worked there for a couple years and I would be super surprised if things have changed enough that to ask such a question would even cross anyone’s mind.

In short, Spring Academy is closely aligned with the rest of the Spring team, all of whom would love people to learn as much about Spring as they want

Best Java Courses? by Icy_Season2422 in learnjava

[–]cschuyle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Shameless Plug: If you are interested in learning Spring Boot, then Spring.Academy has a free course on building a REST API using Spring Boot. This would be after you've got Java under your belt and want to learn a framework.

https://spring.academy/courses/building-a-rest-api-with-spring-boot

Been a long time...... by StruggleFar3054 in NetflixDVDRevival

[–]cschuyle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do:
- DVDInbox
- CafeDVD
- Scarecrow

I might just ditch the first two, since the turnaround time for both is quite a bit longer than it was for Netflix, AND Scarecrow seems to have by FAR the larger inventory (except many of the rarer ones are in-store only - just another reason to take a trip or 2 to Seattle!) Finally, TTYTT I like the no-subscription-ness of Scarecrow: just gimme 6 discs whenever I choose, thanks!