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• Googly Adventures - Samer's Coding Blog

  Suppose you have a typed configuration key -- for example, myIds. myIds stores a value of type Set[Int], but because it's a configuration key, sometimes you might set it in code with a Set[Int], but ...

• Googly Adventures - Samer's Coding Blog: February 2017

  Enter Union Types! Scala has intersect types -- just using "with" and you get a type made by intersecting two types. It is possible to do Union types as well, but it's not built into the language so...

• Googly Adventures - Samer's Coding Blog: Today I learned... Windows batch loop for all files

  Here is a one-liner that can be used in a Windows batch script to run a command (in this case, the GraphViz dot.exe application) once for ea...

• Googly Adventures - Samer's Coding Blog: Today I learned... JavaConverters vs. JavaConversions

  I have some Scala code that interops with Java code. I had previously used import scala.collection.JavaConversions._ to support auto-con...

• Googly Adventures - Samer's Coding Blog: The case of the disappearing users

  Google continues its efforts to thwart me. In today's episode, we find that the number of unique users actually goes down when I increase th...

• Googly Adventures - Samer's Coding Blog: Stop changing my data!!

  Dear Google, Every day I do an incremental import of your Analytics data by pulling in the data from the previous full day. Why is it whe...