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  1. Re:Why? on Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Java is designed to be cross platform. In this case instead of targeting an operating system, you are targeting another virtual environment. While not perfect, it works much more often out of the box than WINE does.

  2. Re:Why? on Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development · · Score: 1

    And if you want to use some java library in .NET environment, IKVM will convert java library binaries into .NET binaries.

  3. I see this being used by the smaller streamers on Google Announces YouTube Gaming · · Score: 1

    The big streams already have a fan base. They know where to go, they are unlikely to risk losing a lot of viewers by moving.

    On the other hand, the streamers who have a small viewership, whose list is mostly made up of new users, can defiantly benefit from the influx of having youtube suggestions that look just like normal videos that people will click. It will be a great way to establish a new user base.

    Yes, there are stricter rules on what you can and can't do. You simply have to understand them and work with them.

  4. Re:Slack Time on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    You cannot take back what you say. This is a censorship free (as much as possible) area. This includes yourself.

    That being said, I personally think it would be nice to edit posts, but let users see previous versions.

  5. Re:Corollary: It's difficult to be "clever" in Jav on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    If your going to put in that hack, you might as well just include lombok into your annotation processing and just put @SneakyThrows everywhere. If only Java had gone with real generics like c#, we wouldn't have had all these erasure hacks.

  6. And they just added this to Amazon on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how much "auto-reload" has caught on yet, but normally Amazon requires you reenter your credit card when you send a package to a new address, and if you have auto-reload on, it might not ask if you use your gift card balance. Amazon, does however have a good anti-fraud team which will delay or cancel suspicious orders.

  7. Re:Java on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    Programming in Java allows one to focus on higher level design, and not worry as much about memory management. This allows someone to more quickly program a piece of a large system. Business are often willing to sacrifice a great deal of program efficiency in exchange for fast development.

  8. Statistics on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    How does one measure how good someone is at programming? Even once you get past a A > B, you still need to assign a numerical score to them. You can get both the U shape and a standard distribution from the same sample by simply redefining how you assign numeric values to the data points. Another thing to note is that programming is a single skill. You don't measure a person's ability based on number of lines of code they generate per week. Some programmers are better at architecture, others at understanding existing system. Some can make really efficient linear programs, others can build fault tolerant multithreaded applications.

  9. Re:Best of intentions on Grooveshark Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    If it was settled out of court, then it is up to the company they settle with. "You can have the website" "We will apologize" "We don't have any money" "Will you leave us alone now?"

  10. Re:Honestly on Amazon Sues To Block Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    Amazon doesn't have a way to verify that you bought your item off of Sears (not that I know of at least). If they did, they would probably mark your review as verified. The mark is only there to make it more costly to post fake reviews. Amazon allows "unverified" reviews to allow people to post information about items they didn't buy off of Amazon. It is up to each individual to make their decision as to the validity of them.

  11. Re:Bwahahahaha on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 1

    Generally this error occurs due to version issues between libraries. If robots were programming they wouldn't probably come up to this issue, as it is due to a human lack of understanding the full system they are coding.

  12. Fortunately in Java you can write this without needing goto (Java disallows goto, for the reasons that is was harmful). So it seems like goto is needed due to a language limitation.
    public int doSomeWork(Context context, int x) throws SomeException {
    int rv = 0;
    Database db = context.getDb();
    //Do some work ...
    Data v = context.copmute();
    MoreWork:
    {
    //Do some more work
    if(v == null) {
    break MoreWork;
    }
    //Do even more work
    }
    return rv;
    }

  13. Further down in the article... on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    He got suspended earlier for bringing a children's encyclopedia, "The Big Book of Knowledge," which had a section on pregnancy.

  14. Re:Censorship should not be tolerated. on Facebook Censoring Images of the Prophet Muhammad In Turkey · · Score: 1

    You have to be careful how you define censorship. Only the most hard core "free speech" advocates would be fine with someone sharing someone else's password, bank information and everything needed by a con to impersonate someone else.

  15. This happened to bungie a long time ago on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    A very similar bug happened in one of Bungie's software (back when they made mac games) where an uninstall would delete more than just the game files. In response, they reissued new CDs and it was a massive cost to do so. This required they take out a loan and sell some stock, which ultimately resulted in Microsoft being able to buy them latter on.

  16. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    War bonds are an investment, but you could invest in more profitable areas. The war wasn't dire enough for a full volunteer tax, which might happen in a small community that is surviving some large scale disaster and would contribute whatever they can to help the community.

    You might get more out of your tax contributions, but you don't get to choose which taxes you pay. Some of them probably don't help you at all.

  17. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    The problem with this statement is when others gain a significant advantage for you doing the things you state, but you don't.

    E.g.

    "If you want the roads fixed then you pay for it, don't increase my taxes"

    It is pretty rare for a volunteer tax system to work in all but the most dire of situations (e.g. war bonds).If an issue is a top importance for you, then yes, maybe you can go all the way and help, but for the rest of us, all we can do is cheap stuff like talk.

  18. Re:Another nail in the coffin... on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    To give an analogy: It is like saying that before you can read the latest x-men comic book you need to read all the ones going back to issue #1 decades ago. The comics back then are outdated, and all your friends are talking about the latest story arc. You want to see what all the hype is about... you don't want to invest a massive amount of time doing so.

  19. Re:Another nail in the coffin... on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    The program with having people go though the leveling experience is that it is old content, with old design, and new player mechanics that causes it not to vibe that well. Even if someone hasn't played WoW, they don't want to do stuff that is 7 years old.

    Cataclysm attempted to correct that by redoing the original part of the game, but ultimately it ended up being a so-so investment, as only new people and those who wanted to level alts got to do that content, and blazed though it quickly.

    What is the easy way to get new people to new content, while letting older people feel like what they have isn't being thrown away? Free level boost to the new content. 1 per account. However, this causes an issue where under the current system someone can buy another copy of the game with the expansion, and transfer their characters to the new account. So they simply cut this "workaround" and provide a rather expensive way to do it that is a bit cheaper.

    Take off your ruby colored glasses and face the fact that as much fun you had getting a group together that managed to do blood furnance early in BC expansion, you forget the hour you spent getting a group together that had to include a warlock to keep all those NPCs feared that would otherwise overwhelm you. You want hardcore -- easy, do mythic raids, the day the are available. See if you can full clear the raid in under a month and join the world top players in fame.

    Oh, and there is no flying in the new expansion areas.

  20. Re:In a just world Weev would have a 9mm headache on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 2

    It is this kind of attitude that leads this behavior in the first place. Assuming you don't really mean "kill the bastard," but rather something more tame like "In a just world Weev would be laughed at his attempts to troll" I would still disagree with you. Vengeance is seldom a good answer. We can only hope that society will mature to the point where these antics are frowned upon, and end up having little effect.

    Thank you for using GIFT, your opinion has been heard, filed, and will be forgotten.

  21. You get what you pay for on Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015 · · Score: 1

    It is $20,000. They aren't looking for the be all end all. It is just to shed some light on the problem and encourage development in this area. They aren't paying 20,000 to beat what they have. It is 20K for best in show, even if it isn't astounding.

  22. Re:Most animals? on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Sure there is an evolutionary reason not to eat your own kind. It just isn't strong enough to justify doing so in some cases.

    Eating your own kind is more likely to get you sick, as if your victim has a disease, it is easier for it to spread to the same species than to a different one. Targeting competition isn't that bad, as it is much less likely to be sick, while hunting your own kind to get food is not as good as you are more likely to get the weakest member of the group, which is more likely to be sick. Many animals will avoid eating an already found dead animal for this reason, and you especially want to avoid eating one that is of your species if you didn't know how it died.

  23. Re:Compiled Strongly-typed Languages -vs- Scripts on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1

    Writing tests for 100% code coverage takes a good amount of effort to do. If you don't do this, and use a weakly typed language then you risk not seeing the issue until that rare case that was programmed for is covered.

  24. Re:Dear Bungie... on Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO · · Score: 1

    Well rumor has it that Bungie bought what was complete of Titan, did some work, and released it as Destiny.

  25. Re:"could help explain the origins of human confli on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 1

    First, it is the "origin," not now. It gives us a what-if on human behavior.
    Second, they can watch chimps do things to each other that would be considered an ethical violation if a study let humans act in a similar way.
    Third, humans have been studied a lot, you have to be quite creative to get another ounce out of what is already in the literature. Chimps, not studied as much, so there are more opportunities to learn stuff.