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  1. Most Samsung phones run Java on Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung · · Score: 2

    With all the talk about WinRT, Android and IOS - worth noting....

  2. why don't you just a job on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? · · Score: 0

    and play for your software you fucken leech.

  3. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    Very cool thanks! This was one of the nice features of the TI - that you could easily redefine character images.

  4. Improve copy/paste on How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors? · · Score: 1

    In office I dread every time I do copy/paste since I know it will inevitability do the wrong thing. Please always paste in context. Do not paste with formatting.

  5. did he use www.md5crack.com ? on Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection · · Score: 2

    http://www.md5crack.com/ uses google to find MD5 strings that have been indexed. No algorithm required.

  6. VirtualBox on BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 · · Score: 1

    Can it run on Virtualbox?

  7. Just set it 1000 years later and have a new set of characters.

  8. Host your own usenet on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 1

    I know I sound like an old fuddy duddy but you could host your own usenet server and provide a news:// link. Newsreaders IMO have a better user experience and you can keep the out spam.

  9. 60 Minutes - hard hitting? on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 1

    Really?

  10. Re:Did he already heard about integrated debugger on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    You're a fucken inbred retard. Go back to your cave you whiny crybaby.

  11. Re:Did he already heard about integrated debugger on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    That's why I hate retarded douche-bags who can't be bothered to read the context. The parent was talking about finding root causes of null pointers. I pointed out that if errors are properly logged the stack trace would include the "caused by". So why don't you do the world a favor and eat shit and die.

  12. Re:Word on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's why we see this kind of code often in msdn examples.

  13. Re:Did he already heard about integrated debugger on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    Yeah returning null is usually an error. Devs should read Effective Java more often. ;) However you'd still get a stack trace with a "caused by".

  14. Re:Word on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In Java since properties are explicit it's obvious for example that the following would be problematic.

    for (int j = 0; j getCount(); j++) {
    }

    I'm calling a method which is more expensive but worse the method's result is not deterministic. What if this method is a part of a web service or using a database call? Again, it's obvious when code-reviewing that this should be written like:

    int count = getCount();
    for (int j = 0; j count; j++) {
    }

    Unfortunately C# would use:

    for (int j = 0; j Count; j++) {
    }

    which is less obvious.

    In fact there's so much bad code like this in C# that they had introduce the strange "yield" keyword to help alleviate the issues caused by this feature.

    Properties at the language level was a bad idea.

  15. Re:Did he already heard about integrated debugger on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    log.error(e.getMessage(), e) will give you the stack trace.

  16. Re:Did he already heard about integrated debugger on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    Do you have an example of this? I rarely need to use the debugger in Java. I can usually spot the bug in a few minutes looking at the code. But I use IntelliJ not Eclipse.

  17. Re:Word on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    Except properties at the language level is a bad idea since it hides performance deficits and there's no good convention for it.

  18. Re:Windows 8 on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 2

    AnyCPU != Universal Binary since all your DLL dependencies need to align with the target platform as well. Realistically you need to create a separate project for each target in your Solution. Java has a true universal single binary. Build a jar and drop it on 32 bit WinXP, 64 bit windows 7, Linux, Mac - double click on it and it runs. Big difference.

  19. Re:Windows 8 on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not quite. C# lacks a universal binary. You need to build for each platform which is a PITA compared to Java.

  20. If you use Facebook on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 1

    You're not sophisticated.

  21. Re:Developers love USDP on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you mean by streamlined approach. Our company just finished an 18 month push into 64 bit with .NET. Our Java products were ready right away. No fuss - no muss - single binary. Gotta love it.

  22. Supporting the Afghan economy on How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin · · Score: 1

    America needs to support the Afghan (tm) economy of course. ;)

  23. Re:easiest way to play? on Fans Bring Back Half Life Game Series: Black Mesa Mod Launches 9/14 · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  24. Re:Almost nobody cares on Ask Slashdot: Where To Report Script Kiddies and Other System Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Mod up. Sheesh only on slashdot would a simple question require 50 pages of scrolling to find an answer....

  25. Seriously? on A Call For Science Policy Debate Among Presidential Candidates · · Score: 0

    You mean to say that in America you elect presidents who have no stated policy on these critical questions? Well that explains it....