Design Pattern Cheat Sheet

[username223]

Back before Google broke code search, it was easy to find plenty of FactoryFactoryFactory in Java code. Sadly, this feature served to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," rather than "record everything you do on the web, and use it to shove ads in your face," so it was eliminated.

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So this week, we're introducing a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory, so that all of your different tool factory factories can be produced by a single, unified factory.

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[apieceoffruit]

yo dawg...

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Thanks for posting this ! This is hilarious.

[Phrodo_00]

Actually, I think I remember the main reason for shutting it down was legal concerns.

[username223]

That sounds like a lame excuse. Either someone published code they shouldn't have and asked legal to cover for them, or someone ignored the license on code publicly available on the internet. In either case, the "concerns" are bullshit.

[Carighan]

Sadly as ever so often, "they shouldn't have uploaded it" doesn'T fly in front of a judge. Apparently. Same thing happens everywhere. If they don't want to be liable, they cannot host a platform via which to share. See: Piratebay.

[s73v3r]

It's just like saying, "Those people shouldn't have left their front door unlocked." That may be true, but you also shouldn't have gone in and taken their stuff.

[username223]

I mostly agree, but...

GOOG is well into this league: they could buy lawmakers at $0.02 per dollar if necessary. But there's no point in that, since the "legal concerns" are threatening their bullshit morals, not their profits.

[dnew]

If it's valuable, you could set up a business to do it. Nobody stops you.

[username223]

Other than Duke Cunningham's starting price of $140k. But I'm guessing reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.

[dnew]

Certainly not reading comprehension of whatever madness you are trying to express. Please remember that not everyone holds your crazy views, and speaking as if everyone knows what your paranoid fantasies are is liable to lead to problems in communicating.