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function setjdk
   if test -n "$JAVA_HOME"
     removeFromPath "$JAVA_HOME/bin"
   end
   set -gx JAVA_HOME (/usr/libexec/java_home -v $argv[1])
   set -gx PATH $JAVA_HOME/bin $PATH  
end

function removeFromPath
  set -l idx 0

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Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

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source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "progressbar"

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scala> import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._

scala> showCode(reify {
     | for{
     |     x <- 1 to 5
     |     _ = print("hi")
     |   } print(x)
     | }.tree)
res1: String =

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What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

Kris Nuttycombe asks:

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal of unityped languages better. Can someone who really knows both well-typed and unityped explain?

I think the terms well-typed and unityped are a bit of question-begging here (you might as well say good-typed versus bad-typed), so instead I will say statically-typed and dynamically-typed.

I'm going to approach this article using Scala to stand-in for static typing and Python for dynamic typing. I feel like I am credibly proficient both languages: I don't currently write a lot of Python, but I still have affection for the language, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code over the years.

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realm=Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager
host=nexus.company.com
user=admin
password=admin123

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tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.

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// You won't be able to compile this with:

//    scala -language:dynamics NoDynamics.scala

// These two ambiguous implicits disable the `dynamics` feature.
implicit def ambDynamics1: language.dynamics.type = ???
implicit def ambDynamics2: language.dynamics.type = ???

object Woo extends Dynamic {
  def selectDynamic(name: String) = s"$name a mess of a language"