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Development at Guidewire
Company blog · guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com · on HN as akeeferprogramming
Development at Guidewire is the company blog at guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com, writing about programming. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its posts on the Gosu JVM language, especially the 2010 post on Gosu's open type system, which one commenter says lives on in Manifold. Commenters also link it as Guidewire material.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A group blog from the developers at Guidewire Software
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/11/18/gosus-secret-sauce-the-open-type-system/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Hehe, it worked out for Guidewire :-) https://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/gosus-...
Comment linking /2010/11/18/gosus-secret-sauce-the-open-type-system/
on “The Inner Json Effect”Submitted Thomas Würthinger is a JVM hero as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWell, the company I work for has quotes from both CSC and Guidewire for their insurance packages (kind of an ERP for insurance companies), which would handle all of our processes, and they ran in the "tens of millions" category between licensing, implantation and other costs. You can check http://www.guidewire.com/ or http://www.csc.com/ if you need a multimillion dollar insurance solution :) Guidewire at least has…
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on “Census Bureau's American FactFinder software cost taxpayers $33.3 million”Submitted Gosu's Open Type System vs. Code Generation as a story · 29 points
HN discussionyep, we were naive about that on the other hand, it was early on in the JVM language boom and so things like JRuby and Clojure were growing in popularity, and we thought we might have a shot at least it was fun there were some interesting technical aspects to the language, such as the open type system[1], which lives on in spirit in Manifold[2]. [1] - https://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/gosus-... […
Comment linking /2010/11/18/gosus-secret-sauce-the-open-type-system/
on “Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?”Submitted Feature Literals + Enhancements + Blocks == Properties++ as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI think Jeff is exaggerating a bit with his phrasing, but I think there's an important point there: humility is always important, and it's the only way you ever improve. As soon as you start being really satisfied with your own work, you stop trying to improve it, and that's a dangerous point to be at. Most of the best programmers I know personally are all highly self-critical about their work. I also think it's imp…
Comment linking /2009/05/07/it-can-always-be-better/
on “Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers”Submitted Syntax Matters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionManifold is an amazing piece of technology. It grew out of the "open type system" of Gosu: https://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/gosus-... The open type system was a simple API for adding new types to Gosu, allowing you to surface non-native types in a type safe way. A really nice way to do metaprogramming for a statically typed languge. Unfortunately Gosu never really went anywhere as an open source…
Comment linking /2010/11/18/gosus-secret-sauce-the-open-type-system/
on “Manifold: Java typesafe metaprogramming with IDE support by abusing the compiler”Submitted New Feature Literals in Gosu (first class data binding) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGreat article! I wrote an article on API design way back in 2008 that advocated for "Scaleable" APIs, in terms of user-investment, which dovetails exactly w/ this concept of "Laddering" APIs: > With this layered approach to File I/O, GScript users do not need to become familiar with the complicated Java I/O libraries to do simple and even moderately complicated things. Yes, there is now some redundancy, but each lay…
Comment linking /2008/10/05/api-design/
on “APIs as Ladders”Submitted The Importance of Hotswapping For Java as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnd it's good advertising for them. I contacted Guidewire thanks to their blog posts here: http://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/ and AKeefer's posts here at HN. Unfortunately for them (and me) my higher-ups at the insurance company I work for are clueless and stubborn and decided to go for a reinvent-the-wheel approach at three times the cost (our current insurance solution is based on Sun's Forte4GL http://en.…
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on “First public release of the Gosu programming language for the JVM”Submitted Gosu language plugin for IntelliJ IDEA is released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionmethod overloading is a horrible language feature that papers over the absence of other, more useful language features like optional arguments, etc. i worked on a JVM programming language back in the day, and that damned feature screwed up everything : method resolution was obviously a pain, but it got involved in generics, class compatibility, it even ends up worming its way into bytecode, since methods names are r…
Comment linking /2009/05/22/i-am-hate-method-overloading-and-so-can-you/
on “Some special cases of method dispatch in Julia”Submitted Why Gosu? Creating a better least common denominator language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Apology for Agile: When to (Not) Use It and How to Make It Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gosu Open Type System Explained as a story · 1 points
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