Not entirely accurate (IANALTINLA also). It comes down to the commonly confused distinction between the burden of proof and the standard of proof. "Proof beyond reasonable doubt" is the criminal _standard_ of proof,…
To paraphrase the argument: "If you steal more money than you can possibly spend, giving the rest away makes everything OK."
As a long-time Java developer, I absolutely abhor the assumption that everything can be safely subclassed and overridden unless it is explicitly declared as final. Implementation inheritance breaks encapsulation. It…
Findbugs, the popular Java tool I linked to in another comment, explains the bug like this: "A random value from 0 to 1 is being coerced to the integer value 0. You probably want to multiple the random value by…
I believe this is the tool you are looking for. http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#RV_01_T...
I work there. Half the office wants one of those tshirts.
NSW has been suffering for the last decade from a totally clueless government, and an opposition totally owned by its fringe right-wing. Labor couldn't govern their way out of a paper bag and the Libs figure that…
I don't think Oracle particularly cares about the Java brand. The Java brand was important to Sun because in recent years its value had eclipsed the value of the Sun brand, to the extent that they even renamed their…
I could think of many salient differences between hammering nails and programming in C, but the simplest one is: Its impossible to do any kind of real carpentry job to completion using only a hammer. Thus, a 'hammer…
I think you're being a trifle naïve. Verizon have consistently used the "we're blocking illegal filesharing" line as justification for throttling BitTorrent traffic. Under the Google/Verizon deal, the FCC would have no…
Speak for yourself. Women are a significant minority in software development. This in itself means that a woman's experience of the field I work in every day must be different to mine. You're more likely to learn…
One advantage of UTF-16 is that unlike UTF-8, very few characters you encounter in Real Life invoke surrogate pairs. So for the cost of a one-bit flag per string you can assume two bytes per character in your string…
I sit corrected. :)
While your analysis of why we're doing the $10 deal is spot on, we only introduced it a couple of months ago so any benefit we might see is still in the future. Previously the cheapest edition of JIRA was (if I recall…
I work at Atlassian and I kind of assume it's us, partly because everyone else around the Internet seems to think he's talking about us, but mostly because the Fogbugz 7 manifesto talked in all caps about people…
The spec seems to assume you are using XHTML. Maybe it should make it clear that in HTML4 pages the self-closing tag syntax is not required?
Not entirely accurate (IANALTINLA also). It comes down to the commonly confused distinction between the burden of proof and the standard of proof. "Proof beyond reasonable doubt" is the criminal _standard_ of proof,…
To paraphrase the argument: "If you steal more money than you can possibly spend, giving the rest away makes everything OK."
As a long-time Java developer, I absolutely abhor the assumption that everything can be safely subclassed and overridden unless it is explicitly declared as final. Implementation inheritance breaks encapsulation. It…
Findbugs, the popular Java tool I linked to in another comment, explains the bug like this: "A random value from 0 to 1 is being coerced to the integer value 0. You probably want to multiple the random value by…
I believe this is the tool you are looking for. http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#RV_01_T...
I work there. Half the office wants one of those tshirts.
NSW has been suffering for the last decade from a totally clueless government, and an opposition totally owned by its fringe right-wing. Labor couldn't govern their way out of a paper bag and the Libs figure that…
I don't think Oracle particularly cares about the Java brand. The Java brand was important to Sun because in recent years its value had eclipsed the value of the Sun brand, to the extent that they even renamed their…
I could think of many salient differences between hammering nails and programming in C, but the simplest one is: Its impossible to do any kind of real carpentry job to completion using only a hammer. Thus, a 'hammer…
I think you're being a trifle naïve. Verizon have consistently used the "we're blocking illegal filesharing" line as justification for throttling BitTorrent traffic. Under the Google/Verizon deal, the FCC would have no…
Speak for yourself. Women are a significant minority in software development. This in itself means that a woman's experience of the field I work in every day must be different to mine. You're more likely to learn…
One advantage of UTF-16 is that unlike UTF-8, very few characters you encounter in Real Life invoke surrogate pairs. So for the cost of a one-bit flag per string you can assume two bytes per character in your string…
I sit corrected. :)
While your analysis of why we're doing the $10 deal is spot on, we only introduced it a couple of months ago so any benefit we might see is still in the future. Previously the cheapest edition of JIRA was (if I recall…
I work at Atlassian and I kind of assume it's us, partly because everyone else around the Internet seems to think he's talking about us, but mostly because the Fogbugz 7 manifesto talked in all caps about people…
The spec seems to assume you are using XHTML. Maybe it should make it clear that in HTML4 pages the self-closing tag syntax is not required?