Perhaps you should pick your examples better. Here's an exerpt from the StringBuffer JavaDoc:
String buffers are used by the compiler to implement the binary string concatenation operator +. For example, the code:
x = "a" + 4 + "c"
is compiled to the equivalent of:
x = new StringBuffer().append( "a" ).append( 4 ).append( "c" ).toString()
Granted, people should get in the habit of coding optimizations automatically, but in this case it's actually more efficient to do String + String + String; it takes less time to code than typing the method calls, and is easier to read/understand.
Which just brings me to my biggest beef about Java: no syntactic sugar. Operator overloading should be a part of Java, and bugger whatever the purists say. I want to save time typing dammit!:)
Amazingly, Java actually performs very well once the JVM loads. Sure, it can't match uber-efficient c code, but, let's be honest here, how much c code really is efficient? I'm sure it's less than c programmers like to believe.;)
That said, "slow" performing Java GUI aps are not so much the fault of the platform itself as they are the fault of the Java programmer's inability to deal efficiently with threads.
I love my yahoo account. It's the only address I give out publicly, and the bulk folder works wonders. Grabs easily 99% of all my spam. Unfortunately, that 1% is still a problem -- when you get hundreds of s-mails a day, that 1% becomes a largish number -- but I diligently report it to the yahoo spam-cops.:)
I don't get spam. I just don't get any. I don't let my e-mail get out to stupid places on the net where a spider will get them. I don't sign up for weird things. I avoid anything slightly untrustworthy. And as a result I get no spam. I can't lie, I don't get no spam. I get maybe 1 spam every 2 weeks. That's right, 1. If I have managed to prevent myself from getting more than 2 spams a month so can you. So do it and stop complaining.
Have you ever published your email address online? Many people have to in order to run a website, you know. Or, if they want to limit spam on their personal accounts, still have to have a public "webmaster@mywebsite.com" email that's published and, yes, always ends up with spam. It's unavoidable in many cases.
... but I have to disagree with the article. It makes some valid points, but I think they're pushed in the wrong direction.
The thing about free software and OSS in general is that very often people release or allow downloads of nightly builds of software that is not really a stable release. This leads to the impression that OSS doesn't work, simply because the build downloaded doesn't work.
But there are too many successes, too many properly released stable builds out there to say that OSS has failed.
I agree wholeheartedly; I will stick to Zope or Twisted any day of the week (both Python based).
I don't know what it is about PHP that I dislike so much; perhaps it's the sucky perl-like syntax, or the lack of API packages (or rather, I should say the plethora of built-in functions), or the fact that so many PHP purists these days insist that you can't use PHP for templating any more (thus running contrary to the original purpose of the language) and that you have to print all your html with print statments inside a single <? ?> tag.
... but aren't there already a bunch of books that do this? I mean, wouldn't a more useful book be one about *designing* a database driven site? Stuff like content management, implementing full text search, session tracking, user logins, site organization and navigation, that sorta thing?
I mean, do we really need *another* book that tells you how to program in PHP and how to use MySQL?
Anyway, from the review, I suppose this would be a good replacement for those books. I just think what we need is something more.
basically, when you scroll a large page under IE it's very jumpy, and you end up with huge white blocks waiting for text to render.
Jumpy? I'm sorry, but I just don't really understand here; I've never seen IE "jump" anywhere. Are you referring to the fact that when you page-down it "jumps" 3/4 of a screen down? I've never noticed anything "non-smooth" about that.
i was never aware that "smooth scrolling" was a feature in IE, i always assumed it was the fact that IE couldn't render HTML well.
Again, that's something that has not occurred in two years of using IE 5/6. Are you sure we're talking about the same browser?
I hope the challenge succeeds. Not because I have any love of porn on the web (I hate pop-up hell with a passion -- long live kazaa for pr0n!), but because I so badly hate patent whores.
But then... ah, nevermind. I could waste a ton of bandwidth waxing political, but what good would it do?
... that DNA was just a late college April Fools joke and the original pranksters simply haven't had the heart to let the world know it's being made fun of.
I've noted several complaints about smooth scrolling in IE, but seriously, what's the complaint? I've got it enabled w/ IE 6.0 on Windows ME, and I've never had a complaint with the scrolling whatsoever unless I try to scroll with a flash animation running in the browser.
Is that what people are bitching about? I blamed that on the flash plugin. I've never had any reason to believe the smooth scrolling was flawed, and I've been using IE 6 since it came out.
Basically, I'm asking: What's the flaw? Where's the problem?
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Which just brings me to my biggest beef about Java: no syntactic sugar. Operator overloading should be a part of Java, and bugger whatever the purists say. I want to save time typing dammit!
Amazingly, Java actually performs very well once the JVM loads. Sure, it can't match uber-efficient c code, but, let's be honest here, how much c code really is efficient? I'm sure it's less than c programmers like to believe. ;)
That said, "slow" performing Java GUI aps are not so much the fault of the platform itself as they are the fault of the Java programmer's inability to deal efficiently with threads.
Well.... I don't know about you folks, but it's pouring down rain in my neck of the woods. :)
I love my yahoo account. It's the only address I give out publicly, and the bulk folder works wonders. Grabs easily 99% of all my spam. Unfortunately, that 1% is still a problem -- when you get hundreds of s-mails a day, that 1% becomes a largish number -- but I diligently report it to the yahoo spam-cops. :)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Who modded parent funny? I agree, and I'm dead serious.
Hey, I posted it the moment I found it. What more do you want out of me, blood? ;)
... but, with the miniscule amount of information provided, it seems to me that the spinning spheres merely demonstrate electromagentic force.
I'm sorry, but to hear everyone on Slashdot, OSS and hatred of MS is a sorta singulatiry. Can't have one without the other, and all that. ;)
... but I have to disagree with the article. It makes some valid points, but I think they're pushed in the wrong direction.
The thing about free software and OSS in general is that very often people release or allow downloads of nightly builds of software that is not really a stable release. This leads to the impression that OSS doesn't work, simply because the build downloaded doesn't work.
But there are too many successes, too many properly released stable builds out there to say that OSS has failed.
I agree wholeheartedly; I will stick to Zope or Twisted any day of the week (both Python based).
I don't know what it is about PHP that I dislike so much; perhaps it's the sucky perl-like syntax, or the lack of API packages (or rather, I should say the plethora of built-in functions), or the fact that so many PHP purists these days insist that you can't use PHP for templating any more (thus running contrary to the original purpose of the language) and that you have to print all your html with print statments inside a single <? ?> tag.
Most of us /.ers aren't Japaneese speakers... ;)
... but aren't there already a bunch of books that do this? I mean, wouldn't a more useful book be one about *designing* a database driven site? Stuff like content management, implementing full text search, session tracking, user logins, site organization and navigation, that sorta thing?
I mean, do we really need *another* book that tells you how to program in PHP and how to use MySQL?
Anyway, from the review, I suppose this would be a good replacement for those books. I just think what we need is something more.
Yeah, misspelling "they" has such huge ramifications.
Maybe now I can finally get the stupid Penthouse level to work!
I hope the challenge succeeds. Not because I have any love of porn on the web (I hate pop-up hell with a passion -- long live kazaa for pr0n!), but because I so badly hate patent whores.
But then... ah, nevermind. I could waste a ton of bandwidth waxing political, but what good would it do?
I'll just shut up now.
Ahh, I see! Makes perfect sense. ;)
... that DNA was just a late college April Fools joke and the original pranksters simply haven't had the heart to let the world know it's being made fun of.
I've noted several complaints about smooth scrolling in IE, but seriously, what's the complaint? I've got it enabled w/ IE 6.0 on Windows ME, and I've never had a complaint with the scrolling whatsoever unless I try to scroll with a flash animation running in the browser.
Is that what people are bitching about? I blamed that on the flash plugin. I've never had any reason to believe the smooth scrolling was flawed, and I've been using IE 6 since it came out.
Basically, I'm asking: What's the flaw? Where's the problem?
Nope, it's not an april fools joke.