throwpupper

This person posts an identical comment in every single Blender thread to promote his startup. Check their post history.

I am just wondering, is such a consistent plugging allowed on HN? To me it lowers the quality of the discussion and their posts are often voted to the top on all Blender related posts.

Java? Not so much. JVM? Absolutely. The ecosystem, stability and performance is unmatched.

What about the fact that Kotlin collections are fully interoperable with Java collection? That makes the transition significantly easier.

Well it means that the second you need a setter you can't use records so all the boilerplate remains.

I think the article is misleading in the list of advantages over Kotlin's Data Classes.

1. Destructuring - available in Kotlin

2. Copy with change - available in Kotlin

3. Serialization - not sure why Kotlin data class would not be serializable

4. Boilerplate - Kotlin takes care of equals and hashCode

Huge disadvantage that matters to me is that record fields cannot be mutated. It makes the records much less useful.

It's not a lie at all.

It was an exhibition on the top floor of the tallest building in the city. It was comparing Montreal to Quebec City trying to draw more people and business to Quebec City. One of the "selling" points was a statistic saying that:

1. Montreal has about 50/50 French/English split whereas in Quebec City it's something like 98/2 French/English. Yes, that was presented as an advantage.

2. There was a graph showing how the city is becoming more and more French-speaking over time. Again, proudly presenting that fact as a selling point.

I never said they are openly hostile but by hindering any English business and opressive language laws they drove whole communities of English speakers away. That's a fact.

In Quebec City they are loudly proud of how many Anglos they have driven away. They pretty much purged the city of anything non-French in the two last decades and are displaying it as a success story.

For me, displacing large communities based on their mother tongue is nothing to be proud of. Be it either way.

It's funny that most of these super hyped up mechanical keyboards still use traditional staggered non-split layout that will still contribute to developing RSI sooner or later.

I feel bad for the shoulders and hands of all those geeks using their tiny $600 cramped keyboards.

Any keyboard that does not separate into two independent halves (like ErgoDox or Matias ErgoPro) is horrible for posture and ergonomics.

I never said that you should _only_ eat steaks and potatoes, did I?

This diet recommends a pound of fatty meat per day: http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/

The book that describes the diet cites over 1000 studies and empirical evidence to prove that the diet is healthy. Now who am I to believe?

nutritionfacts.org is an extremely biased site that has been created by a vegan who built his whole career on speaking about health issues. While it has the word "facts" in its title nothing prevents them from cherry-picking studies to support their original views.

If you cherry-pick different studies you might actually find that consuming large amount of plants stresses our digestive system way more than a fatty steak with potatoes.