carrotsalad
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Comment · 2 years ago
In what way is he being a "political fanatic" in this post? His writing has never been politically neutral - nor has he ever claimed it was - but this post calling out the lameness of a bunch of tech CEOs posting similar ass-covering congratulations to the winner of the presidential election - especially the ones who clearly would have preferred a different winner - could have been written by anyone.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's not clear to me what is the problem you have with Gruber or this post. He's just a journalist/blogger who's covered Apple and related topics by, you know, publishing his own writing on his own website (for over 20 years). You seem angry that such a person exists, or that someone can be enthusiastic about some things having to do with Apple while criticizing others. I really don't understand the animosity towards him and his site that seems to be simmering away in this community.
Comment · 2 years ago
> It's intended as a replacement for _scala_ builds. Having a build definition in the native language [...] makes task customization easier for the maintainer
Totally agree! But the title of the post says "Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala" :) - it certainly looks like better tool for the Scala community.
For projects that are primarily building Java sources, it'd be nice to have a build system that uses Java code to describe the build. I don't think this exists at the moment.
Comment · 2 years ago
Mill looks interesting, but, _from a Java development perspective_, it has the same fundamental challenge as Gradle (and most other build systems), which is that its config language _is something other than Java_. That means there's a significant cognitive burden to understand and manage something that one hopes to not have to think about very often.
I find that the pain I experience with Gradle isn't usually about how to do something clever or customized etc, but instead it's when I haven't thought about Gradle syntax in the last 3 months since everything has been silently working, but now I need to figure out some small thing, and that means I need to go re-learn basic Gradle stuff - whether it's groovy, Kotlin, or some aspect of the build DSL - since my mind has unloaded everything about Gradle in the meantime.
Simplifying the semantic complexity of a general purpose build system will always help, but the most useful thing for me would be if the configuration for a Java build were to natively use the Java language directly.
Comment · 2 years ago
The article describes this as a "monobloc" air-to-water heat pump. Monobloc means that the compressor, fan, and all the refrigerant are entirely sealed within the outdoor unit, and it just sends a loop of water (or water w/ glycol in it) into the house, where it can warm or cool an insulated buffer tank that effectively stores the hot or cold water for use in heating, cooling, and domestic hot water.
Comment · 15 years ago
One of the things we hope http://TipTheWeb.org/ will be good for is offering a way for creators of open source tools and useful web services to get money from the people who use what they've created, especially for things that would be hard to build a full business around, but which still have significant value.
Much of what's great about the Web is exactly that: valuable, published for free access, not the basis of a full-time business, yet definitely worth supporting.
Comment · 15 years ago
That's part of what we're trying to do with http://TipTheWeb.org/ , letting people support the content they like with voluntary micro-donations.
For instance, I've already tipped the original article 20¢ :-) (see my Tip stream at http://tiptheweb.org/tipstream/patg6vy3pyb62/ )
If publishers can get direct financial support from their audience, they wouldn't need to overdo things with ads, and they'd focus more on providing the best possible experience for that audience. Better for everyone.
Comment · 15 years ago
Well, I wouldn't call it a "market", exactly. But people spend money on plenty of things they don't need to. And if no one supports all the great stuff people work on and put up for free on the Web, then we'll just get more and more obnoxious advertisements and more crazy schemes from big businesses.
At TipTheWeb (see my comments above), we think that by supporting the publishers of the stuff you like online, you're helping to make the Web a place that's more valuable to you. We all want more of the good stuff and less of the crap. If you tip a blog post that you like 10 cents, then not only does the publisher of that blog make a little money, but they also get some information about which of the stuff they write is valuable to their readers. This is a feedback loop that's missing from advertisement-driven publishing, where they get the ad impression regardless of whether you like the content.
Comment · 15 years ago
TipTheWeb ( http://tiptheweb.org/ ) is a new (non-profit!) service that just came out of private beta a few months ago- it has no fees for tippers or publishers, and passes 100% of claimed tips to web publishers via monthly awards. And TipTheWeb doesn’t require a subscription or any kind of ongoing commitment. Both flattr and Readability take big cuts of the money before it gets to publishers. In addition to working with popular publishing platforms and independent websites, TipTheWeb allows multi-contributor sites, like multi-author blogs, to add simple metadata to their pages so that tips can go directly to the authors of the content being tipped.
Comment · 15 years ago
TipTheWeb ( http://tiptheweb.org/ ) lets you tip almost anything, as long as it is free to access. When a publisher claims their site, they'll find the tips waiting for them. (If tips go unclaimed for a really long time, they get returned to the tipper's account).