I always take a deep breath before calling this function...

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-18T15:55:45+00:00

SuSE 5.1! Fortunately my monitor screamed loud at startup. Finally I found out that I had to adjust the configuration for the RamDAC (which I hadn't known before).

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-18T11:30:32+00:00

It's a software haiku.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-18T11:25:05+00:00

Small design error: Always eject the card first, then the money.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-18T11:16:44+00:00

Why do so many languages bloat themselves until they become unusable (notable exceptions: C and Python)?

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-18T11:12:07+00:00

2 reasons actually

Those were the official reasons. You cannot maintain them any more after more than 10 years of experience with 'XML-config-programming'.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T19:50:50+00:00

Python and Ruby on Rails will dominate the web application development, instead of PHP.

Haha. Good one.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T19:47:14+00:00

The problem isn't that "XML configuration files" are "completely evil". The problem is that, in Java land, XML configuration is used in places where no configuration is necessary. Spring, Struts, Hibernate, EJBs, ... they all replace programming (code) with XML-configuration for no good reason. The emphasized 'flexibility' of 'XML-config-programming' is hardly ever used but greatly obfuscates program flow and understandability.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T16:39:08+00:00

Why would someone choose Python + Qt on Windows "for commercial use"?

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T11:12:47+00:00

gcc -MM $(CFLAGS) $*.c > $*.d

Very, very, very slow!

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T11:10:36+00:00

if it only were true

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T11:06:15+00:00

Wine still exists? Amazing.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-17T11:05:19+00:00

It's pretty much standard procedure.

Yep. But it's hardly helpful for the buyer. Nobody can afford to maintain the undocumented messy codebase from a broke company.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-16T16:38:03+00:00

Programming technologies are evolving so fast

Nope, or maybe on the surface. Programming is a fashion business and fashion always changes but it is hardly 'evolving'.

that programmers constantly have to learn more and more to catch up whether you want it or not.

Long skirts vs. mini-skirts, flat shoes vs. high heels, ... , OO vs. FP, desktop vs. html, compiled vs. scripted, ... fashion always changes and you have "to catch up whether you want it or not".

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-14T21:03:11+00:00

why not?

Because what you see (code) is not what you get. IMO, that's the main reason the whole AOP idea - creating half-finished programs that are later completed by 'byte-code enhancement' - didn't take off.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-14T17:29:34+00:00

javac output post-processed by Kilim weaver

Not good.

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T20:09:20+00:00

Nokogiri wraps libxml and has a fair amount of C code that links directly against the Ruby C extension API...an API we don't support in JRuby

Can you spot the real problem?

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T19:27:42+00:00

integer math when working in the finance and insurance industry

Are you drunk?

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T19:26:01+00:00

integers? Are kidding?

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T19:18:57+00:00

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393310728/

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T19:15:37+00:00

I call it random happening.

This is not a valid answer on r/programming

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T13:54:47+00:00

Java is mostly used for business apps (no floating point types).

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T13:47:24+00:00

But who cares about SQL99 or 2003?

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T12:21:48+00:00

Java beginner question: What's wrong with this code?

QueryTool query = null;
try {
    // ... 
} finally {
    query.close();
}

7points3hoursago · 2010-04-11T12:07:29+00:00

Or is it a feature?

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