They also seemed annoyed that I am asking them questions that are not part of the problem statement instead of getting down to drawing a fancy diagram.

I'm sure they hired someone who drew a lot of boxes with cute logos because webscale.

One must ask whether the Bitcoin valuation has raised 1000% because the fiat has inflated as much, or is it mostly driven by speculation. For reference point, the buying power of fiat currency has not changed dramatically during the same period.

I am no longer into hackathons, but I would pay good money for such a product. Bonus points if it is styled like Nada's glasses from They Live.

This is what I wish I had before I started learning.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kubernetes-before-you-start-d...

This is a good thing because in a place like tokyo there is just too much stuff - if I care for aometgubd I either search for it, or drop a pub and check what is around.

On the other hand, Maps always shows the labels of things I have searched for in the past, yielding a customized legend of landmarks+things that matter to me.

Its biggest limitation on real projects is that it works on a single-file level, while all the interesting stuff happens on patch level. You may browse their forums to get an idea of what else is missing.

That said, I wish all the best to Codice and I really hope that they continue to invest in this tool.

It is a bit misleading as there is still a lot that would have to be be emulated - the JVM does not support open types and the Java is centered around classes, which makes prototype mutation hard to implement efficiently ( InvokeDynamic somewhat helps, but would still impose a performance penalty when the prototype is changed).

See also John Rose's article about species: https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/larval_objects_in_the_v...

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This is imprecise - a dynamic language does not really need to "wrap everything in one type" - look at Dart or Groovy. What makes it 'dynamic' is the dynamic dispatch. All dynamic languages I know dispatch based on runtime argument types, but this is only one particular form of dynamic dispatch. Declaring types in dynamic language typically is used at runtime merely as an assertion, that at this point the argument must conform to the said type.

Dynamic dispatch differs from Polymorphic dispatch in the way that polymorphic dispatch takes in account the runtime type of the target (the object whose method you are calling), but the types of the parameters are fixed at compile time.

Many dynamic languages also provide a way to customize the dispatch logic (i.e. call a default handler if no match exists) - typically via some form of Meta Object Protocol. Often the dynamic languages provide features like higher order functions, continuations, pattern matching, etc. but this has nothing to do with their dynamicity - same features are available in some static languages as well.