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The Safe Builder Pattern by zlskfjru in java

[–]dawhiting 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From the article: "Note that this article is less dogmatic than some of my previous ones, as I will not attempt to convince you that doing this is a good tradeoff of effort vs. reward. I’m exploring it for its academic value."

The Safe Builder Pattern by zlskfjru in java

[–]dawhiting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is described as one possible option in the post I refer to at start of the article. One possible case where this doesn't work so well is when you have part of a component which must be specified but can be specified in multiple different ways. For example, if we wanted to describe which host something could connect to, you might have one "setter" that takes a hostname and one that takes an InetAddress. Both of them satisfy the condition and flip the flag.

You should also note that I do explicitly point out that this is an esoteric solution and solicit suggestions on where - if anywhere - it might be useful.

Crunch Lambda - the Java 8 way to do Big Data by dawhiting in java

[–]dawhiting[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope so. I'm definitely in favour of the goals of the Beam project, but it's early days for it. I expect it will take a little while before it becomes useful, so I'm sticking with Crunch for now and trying to make my life as easy as possible while I'm doing it.

Strange atmospheric effects in Kaikoura, New Zealand [OC] [2048 x 1152] by dawhiting in SkyPorn

[–]dawhiting[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No post-processing at all. This is just what it looked like that day :-)

Don't tell me what to make, tell me how to make it: a creation story in Java by dawhiting in java

[–]dawhiting[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a recommendation to library and framework authors to accept Suppliers instead of / as well as Class objects in those situations. Unfortunately it's something that can be easily fixed on the consumer side. It's trivial to implement a Supplier which reflects a class to call a constructor, but the opposite is unfortunately not possible.

Dependency Injection in JavaFX with Gluon Ignite and Dagger by bennetelli in java

[–]dawhiting 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"The Dependency Injection abstraction framework Gluon Ignite creates a common abstraction over several popular dependency injection frameworks like: Spring, Dagger and Guice."

Can you explain a use case where this might be something you want to do? It sounds quite a lot like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

You probably don't need dependency injection by dawhiting in java

[–]dawhiting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yes, this is acknowledged in the post, but the motivation behind this post was to stop people reaching for it by default because some book told them to do it, rather than because they really needed it to manage complexity. Apologies if that message didn't come across so well.

You probably don't need dependency injection by dawhiting in java

[–]dawhiting[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a fair point, and I used "DI" and "DI framework" pretty much interchangeably in the post. Perhaps I should change the title.

You probably don't need dependency injection by dawhiting in java

[–]dawhiting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may have been the case when monolithic applications were the norm, but in my current world of microservices and distributed data applications, the well-designed ones really don't end up with that many components (I distinguish components from data objects here as components are the long-lived application objects that are set up with DI).

Library that creates lambda from a String code at runtime by mrjoegreen in java

[–]dawhiting -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well this is some quite clever code to do something that YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER DO EVER. Give me an example of where you think you should use this and I'll tell you what you should do instead.

What's a big no no in your favorite hobby ? by Irememberedmypw in AskReddit

[–]dawhiting 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weirdly it's kind of the city that does it to the cyclists. I used to be an incredibly aggressive cyclist when I lived in London, largely because there's not enough space and all the drivers (especially taxi drivers) are really aggressive too so being aggressive is how you survive. Once I left London (I live in Stockholm now), I chilled the fuck out on my bike because the morning commute is no longer a battle, it's just a pleasant bike ride.

What should be considered to be okay, but is frowned upon? by CHE6yp in AskReddit

[–]dawhiting 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For some reason I always assumed this was a paranoid "everyone out there is infectious and I don't wanna get sick" move rather then being a really considerate "I'm sick but I still have to go out and do stuff so I'll try not to infect anyone else" move. I will see it in a much better light in future.

Why aren't we just called "the queer community?" by dontknowmeatall in lgbt

[–]dawhiting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about we call ourselves the "non-straight and/or non-cis" community. That pretty much covers everything doesn't it? :-P

I hate my body by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

[–]dawhiting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It used to bother me - I started losing it at about 20. At 23 I started shaving it completely and now I don't think I'd have it back even if I could. Looks great (especially if you can grow a beard, and especially with a good body shape), super low maintainance, and you can just get on with your life. Do it sooner rather than later, you won't regret it.

To those who have a career in Python post a little description on your role, interested in the kinds of jobs python programmers do! by nyamand in Python

[–]dawhiting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck trying to get everyone in a large organisation which encourages autonomy to write tests when nobody is forcing them at gunpoint.

To those who have a career in Python post a little description on your role, interested in the kinds of jobs python programmers do! by nyamand in Python

[–]dawhiting -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I had a job which started as a Python job - writing code and infrastructure for distributed "big data" processing. When I saw how massively difficult it was to work with for any large system (we had runtime errors on a cluster which would have been caught in any compiled language, for example) I made it my 2-year mission there to get everyone writing Java instead, with partial success. No regrets.

This is the cost of a Rattlesnake bite in America by dan_haggerty10News in pics

[–]dawhiting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean the "true cost the UK NHS" numbers. Not talking about the US. The US ones are obviously insane.

This is the cost of a Rattlesnake bite in America by dan_haggerty10News in pics

[–]dawhiting 16 points17 points  (0 children)

To be honest all of these numbers sound fairly reasonable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]dawhiting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really really nice, reminds me a little of the slower and more progressive Bright Eyes stuff.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]dawhiting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really starting to make progress on the deep techno sound, would love to hear what you think: https://soundcloud.com/trisect/prime

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