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Only to “validate” the yeast, e.g. to test a new batch or if it has been unused for a long period of time.

In actual bread dough, yeast finds all it needs to activate in the flour itself.

It is the most popular compiled strongly typed language, so they went for both market share and ease of implementing refactoring (vs a dynamic language, like Python)

In the US, your local National Resources Conservation Service office also provides this service. Costs $7 - $10.

Source: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb116...

Not sure I agree there. The language progresses with features that OP himself says he likes, and he also says that they DO maintain backwards compatibility, what more to ask for?

The author would be better or revisiting their code on a more relaxed cycle, for example every 18 weeks. Or whatever works for them, or just let go of the need to be using 100% of the latest best practices.

Only serious offers will be considered, and money won't influence maintainer-ship decisions

The idea of panels can be realized today on Linux using a tiling window manager, and is superior in my opinion because it allows you to slice your screen as you see fit, has workspaces and you can have multipe windows in a single slice snd switch between them using a variety of wsys (tabs, etc)

For your web apps / services / APIs, check Dropwizard, it is not what I would call "bleeding edge", but it provides a reasonable base and has always allowed me to easily work with the rest of the awesome JVM ecosystem. My Dropwizard projects are usually cruft/magic free, start in less than 5 seconds, consume predictable resources and is easy to reason about, troubleshoot and improve.

I used to be a big fan of Spring(-boot) with MVC, but since I tried Dropwizard I never looked back. I'd still do Spring but perhaps for non-mvc/web needs.

I don’t think it is ok to try and make service boundaries transparent and swappable. A service speaking to another service has to know the cost and overhead of the call it is making as otherwise it can’t provide an efficient interface

I am wondering if there is a backup solution that works that way but without requiring a manual time consuming invocation.

Using something like inotify to record changed files and a worker in the background to immediately sync. Like dropbox.

I find it best to be asked that kind of homework after I have done my first interview. It usually means we both got a chance to pass and that the effort I will put will be seriously considered.

robots.txt is a "sign" that you leave at the door for well-behaving robots, but it doesn't actually make any practical difference when a robot isn't implemented to honor it

I think if you look at the numbers, they are pretty fine.

The full HD (1080p) version is considered the low-res and according to Anandtech it lasts 15 hours of normal use, while the higher end model with a 3200x1800 screen lasts 10 hours of normal use (according to Anandtech), and 7 hours of video playback according to the CNet review.

Anandtech review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6849/dell-xps-13-q1-2013-ultra...

I think it's because our ancestors didn't have easy access to food in the way we do now. Our bodies are wired to consume and store energy which are necessary for survival in times of starvation.

If you have come to this post expecting to read something related to modern Java for the web, and have come back unsatisfied, then here is something to make up for that: yeoman's jhipster generator: http://jhipster.github.io/

Presentation: http://jhipster.github.io/presentation/

It's not a software -- it's a pub/sub service they are offering for free.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the departure of permgen space and the dreaded PermSize and MaxPermSize JVM arguments. While it was actually replaced with a new "metadata" space, the latter is mostly transparent, unlike the former. You can read more about the change here: http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-8-permgen-metaspace

According to this[1], musca development halted since 2009.

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Musca

I cannot confirm this from all locations. google.ps sometimes resolve to a legitimate Google and other times to the Moroccan server. Does anyone have an idea how could that be possible?

I see many comments disagreeing with the article about criticizing Ted in public, and I also disagree with that. However, the article makes a fine point which is to make the team members accountable to the team and not to you (the leader).

The RabbitMQ management plugin does provide an excellent command line interface. You download it along with its docs right from the management UI (/cli).

Btw, I'm using RabbitMQ, and I love it. My needs do not include high load or high availability though so I can't speak for that. So what's nice about it? AMQP (you automatically get lots of tools, docs, "expectations", etc), very friendly and active mailing lists, small & clean code base, small footprint, simple, active (more features are always being added).

What I don't like about RabbitMQ? While it's FLOSS inside out, its development isn't exactly a "community" work. For example, I can't report an issue, attach a patch, and receive a reviewer/committer feedback about it and possibly get it in. In fact, I can't even report an issue into their issue tracking system -- I just have the mailing list. That said, I believe they said they are going to fix that part "soon".

Reminded me of http://gumroad.com/ "Share and sell your digital goods with just a link"

Not entirely true. There is a "No thanks, take me to download" link at the bottom of the form you get after clicking the download link.