Multi-national organisation unable to sell Google Nexus 4/10 in Ireland, where they have their European HQ. Like if they cared about multinational, except to reroute taxes...
+1 I believe knowing what interests a user has, or what experience, may help a lot to filter people who speak without knowing the facts (when talking about programming or startups, for example) or whose interests conflict with the subject, so the comment may be strongly biased.
Of course, throwaway accounts are still needed (for example, guy looking for job and his employer reads HN). But still, it would be a good way to filter "conflicted" answers. Even more, being able to flag them ("warning, this may be too subjective and not useful") would be great.
Sorry for being "rantish", but most of the "negative" comments I'm reading around here are from people who didn't spend a single second reading the manual.
Yes, I'm not partial, I'm invested on Play, but I am because it has a wonderful documentation that makes life really easy (that plus StackOverflow).
Most of the complains in here come from people with almost no experience in it. No, a small side project of 6 hours is not "experience". You just toyed around. You can't know about the real issues or benefits related to a framework.
Please, I know this is "the internet", but in a site like Hacker News, couldn't you try to talk only about things you know?
Someone should send the first part to stephen colebourne, as an explanation on why spreading Scala FUD and acting like a victim will only spread hate about his behaviour.
Yes, I should write this, but I'm not smart enought to stop myself to type it. After reading the definition my mind instantly draw his face...
I meant irrelevant to the fact that they are talking about it. Obviously, if they mention negative points on the language (and those points are true) it's bad for the language. If it's pure FUD it's also bad, yes.
But even if it's only to spew hate, the fact that so many people talk about it, must mean something. Too much attention for a fringe language...
To sum it up (feel free to add corrections) one guy put a blog post saying that Parallel collections had many issues, etc etc... and the reality was that he misunderstood them somehow.
As one guy put it, the collections do nice work but you have to know what you are doing (not all work can be broken into fragments that can be computed in parallel). He was kind of expecting otherwise.
Not saying they are perfect, just what happened (more or less)
Given the amount of comments on Scala (positive or negative, that's irrelevant) I'm not so sure it will be a fringe language for long. It must be somehow relevant for so many people to spend so much time talking about it...
* the blog of Daniel Westheide (http://danielwestheide.com/) has a series of posts (starting at http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2012/11/21/the-neophytes-gui... and currently at lesson 15) which may be worth reading to complement/expand on the course lectures. Probably not useful for the course itself until you’ve finished week 2 or 3, but relevant anyway.
* the book “Scala for the impatient”, probably the best book out there about Scala from beginner to advanced level