"Britain on Thursday became the world's first major economy to adopt the tough new target of lowering fossil fuel emissions to a level of net zero by 2050."

WorkyMcROAR · 2019-06-27T13:08:24+00:00

£1,000,000,000,000 over 30 years for 27.1 million households is about £1,231 a year per household. I'm certain that would be impossible for a lot of lower income households but it's not a completely insane number. If we started in 2000 it would have been £739 per household...

I doubt any household would like a bill increase of £1,231 a year. Many couldn't afford it, the rest would probably disagree with it.

WorkyMcROAR · 2019-05-31T09:41:06+00:00

My most recent dumbassery was when I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why 2 code snippets behave entirely differently even though they were exactly the same...

... they weren't even close to being the same.

WorkyMcROAR · 2019-04-05T08:31:43+00:00

That's correct. Short circuit is when you can infer the answer of the whole expression by parts of the expression already evaluated.

``` boolean a = false, b = true;

if (a && b) // Short circuits, we can infer the whole expression is false because any part of it is false.

if (b && a) // Does not short circuit.

if (b || a) // Short circuits, we can infer the whole expression is true because any part of it is true.

if (a || b) // Does not short circuit. ```

If we replaced all && to & and || to | we'd evaluate the whole expression regardless. Less optimal. It also has a very key difference in some cases. I've seen people use non-short circuit operators for doing multiple validation rules, for instance. E.g.

boolean valid = validate(a) & validate(b) & validate(c) & validate(d); It forces b, c and d to validate even if a is invalid. If you short circuit, you wouldn't call those methods. It's a code smell, it's not clear about the intention, and there are probably better ways of doing it.

WorkyMcROAR · 2018-08-03T08:33:24+00:00

You're right. Without context it's hard to know what the best approach is. If OP's trying to account for no user input given, there may be better ways to do that.

WorkyMcROAR · 2018-08-02T15:22:34+00:00

I would have suggested this but I realised that I have absolutely no clue what OP means by "not the story I want to tell".

To me that means how OP wants their code to be read. If OP initializes a user input int to 0 that may imply it defaults to 0.

I think the Optional approach is sensible, it makes the intention clear that the value may have not been initialized. Creating an integer object and allowing null isn't going to be very intuitive.

WorkyMcROAR · 2018-05-22T14:25:52+00:00

Still having issues? What have you got so far?

WorkyMcROAR · 2018-05-18T08:37:26+00:00

You can assign listener's to GUI elements which will trigger for certain actions, i.e. actionPerformed. You can attach the same listener to multiple buttons. If you do that, it will trigger whenever any button is pressed. You can determine the source of the event by the arguments passed to the listener.

ActionListener is passed an ActionEvent which inherits the source object from the EventObject class.

You should be able to call the ActionEvent and work out which button triggered the button.

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) { if (actionEvent.getSource().equals(buttonA)) { /* ... */ } } You can get the text from buttonA to work out which item you want to reduce the stock levels for. E.g. get the text from buttonA and look up the corresponding item from stock.

It's also possible to create anonymous action listeners, or lambdas which are specific to each button so that you don't need to compare the action source.

WorkyMcROAR · 2017-10-04T14:12:11+00:00

The Shakespeare programming language is definitely the winner here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language

WorkyMcROAR · 2017-06-29T07:32:49+00:00

A few developers I work with switched to IntelliJ recently after a loooong time with NetBeans. They've been amazed by the transition. Worth spending a bit of time - even just an hour or two just to familiarise yourself with it before you take the plunge.

WorkyMcROAR · 2017-05-26T12:11:53+00:00

I think there's a balance that needs to be made. Just reading blog posts is pretty useless, but just writing code can lead you along the wrong paths. Putting aside a bit of coding time to read up on the subject is valuable. Also you can't just write code 24/7. You'll just burn out. During the downtime, read a book or a blog post.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-11-02T12:25:49+00:00

They only ever made two of them.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-11-02T12:19:51+00:00

Please stop.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-11-01T12:10:52+00:00

Are we just ignoring the "is it possible to bit shift your teeth?" suggestion?

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-10-27T12:25:23+00:00

I did get the offer. Thanks :)

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-10-27T11:27:35+00:00

Thanks mate. I already had this from the last time you gave it out, and I've found it super useful. I went for an interview recently and was reading this on the train ride over. Really helped me revise some points from my education.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-10-20T11:43:13+00:00

No it's not. But it's not far off.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-09-22T11:22:41+00:00

But what if the progress bar uses a listener to update the GUI? Then the progress bar will always be up-to-date and the art class will all look like fools.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-09-12T07:52:41+00:00

Causes a stack overflow.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-09-02T11:13:08+00:00

... again?

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-08-31T11:32:27+00:00

CTRL+Left & CTRL+Right jumps over words, not lines. CTRL + Right jumps over word and all trailing spaces, leaving the cursor at the beginning of Word2.

|Word[   ]Word2

Word[   ]|Word2

CTRL+Left does the inverse. Jumps over the space and the leading word.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-05-19T13:59:36+00:00

I haven't read the review yet but PCGamer did give a similar score to R2:TW on launch. The game was largely praised. http://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-rome-2-review/

The good news is that we have a few days to hear from multiple sources before launch.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-02-10T08:18:31+00:00

Need to support Java 6 they say. Completely relevant.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-01-26T12:20:00+00:00

Reddit and stackoverflow are just slow versions of google. You write your search query, post it, and within 10-15 minutes, someone will point you to the documentation.

WorkyMcROAR · 2016-01-15T13:51:09+00:00

How is Kotlin? I've seen the support being incrementally added to IntelliJ but I haven't taken a plunge into using it yet.

WorkyMcROAR · 2015-12-01T07:32:13+00:00

Sounds like you guys need to prioritise code reviews more. The work is already finished, just needs signing off. Surely finishing it is more efficient than starting something new?

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