Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Next Generation Java is not very different from today's Java

The number of operators that you can overload is very small and each of them is attached to very specific semantics that makes little sense outside the realm of scalars and of a few other specialized mathematical concepts (e.g. matrices).

Since we are using LoDash instead of UnderscoreJS in recent/current projects, you should keep in mind that their syntax is a bit different.

UnderscoreJS

In UnderscoreJS, methods always return...

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Even if you’ve trapped, you can change your programming style and reap some of the benefits of those new languages. In the last 15 years Java programming style has changed significantly.

PostgreSQL supports the SQL OVERLAPS operator. You can use it to test if two date ranges overlap:

=> SELECT ('2001-02-16'::date, '2001-12-21'::date) OVERLAPS
          ('2001-12-20'::date, '2002-10-30'::date);

overlaps
--------
true

A...

The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud). It includes an extensive list of over 900 TILs on many topics that might be interesting for most of us. (e.g. Ruby, Rails, Git, Uni...

PostgreSQL offers a really handy field type: json. You can store any JSON there, in any structure.

While its flexibility is great, there is no syntactic sugar in Rails yet. Thus, you need to manually query the database.

Demo

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We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come with 6 months of support. If there is really no other way, it's possible to install packages from later Ubuntu re...

So you're getting this failure when running bundle install on an older project:

Your Gemfile.lock is corrupt. The following gems are missing from the DEPENDENCIES section: 'archive-tar-minitar' 'hoe' 'rcov'

This happens when you ar...