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Comment · 10 months ago
Cool! I frequently prefer drafting presentations in markdown and it would be handy to to turn them into nice looking presentations
Comment · 8 years ago
Good post with real numbers. Also has useful projections spreadsheet for download
Comment · 9 years ago
This seems great. In the past I had set up Flickr to at least email all my daughter's grandparents so they could see new photos of her. As Flickr is dying and this case doesn't seem well handled by Instagram/Google Photos this seems like a really nice way to share family photos with everyone.
Comment · 9 years ago
One of my favorite West Wing moments. So good.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'd never heard of Donor Advised Funds before. I'd be curious if others have had a similar good (or bad) experience. I'm thinking I might do it for 2017 and wondering if there are any other things to be aware of.
Comment · 10 years ago
For a side project I've deployed some simple endpoints to Heroku and used Spark (http://sparkjava.com/). Spark is a Java Sinatra clone rather than full Rails.
That said, not sure I'd pick it for simple side-projects. Part of the benefit here is how it works for a large dev team, with a large codebase, etc.
Comment · 10 years ago
This is a good place to start: https://github.com/cxxr/better-java
Comment · 10 years ago
The post mentions a few: Dropwizard for RESTful APIs (http://www.dropwizard.io which includes a bunch of good libraries), Guava, Guice, Hysterix, etc. We use Kafka for stream processing, Hadoop for batch processing.
Comment · 10 years ago
I work at HubSpot, and was among the initially skeptical from having had bad experiences in Java in the distant past and spent more time in Ruby in the years prior which I mostly enjoyed.
The Java ecosystem truly saved itself from its own enterprise madness. Libraries and frameworks today look nothing like they did in the past. I think that is somewhat due to language features (annotations, lambdas, etc) but also due to a cultural shift in what is valued.
One of the things I've appreciated more than I would have expected is by having a single back-end language we have very strong community of developers. There is no split among different factions. (I hear rumors of sharp divides between python and node camps at Uber, for example.) Even though technically we have a platform capable of running languages in many languages, the value of the community focused on a single back-end language toolchain is extremely valuable.