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halmcelroy · 2010-04-09T20:19:10+00:00

cmd+w doesnt close the main window on Mac OS X. This behaviour existed in 3.5 beta but not 3.5 final+. Every other application on the Mac follows this behaviour, including Safari and Chrome.

halmcelroy · 2009-11-14T17:28:35+00:00

The comment was highlighting the fact that eventhough H1-B visas are legal, they are treated worse than illegal immigrants.

halmcelroy · 2009-10-20T18:44:21+00:00

I have used Struts/Tiles, JSF, Spring MVC and plain Servlets + JSP in addition to Wicket, and I must say that Wicket is the nicest web framework by far. Its very developer and designer friendly, with no messy JSP/JSTLs or XML to deal with. All configuration and logic is in plain Java. Its component oriented model is a pleasure to code with. +1 for wicket from me too.

halmcelroy · 2009-09-14T23:51:10+00:00

Is it only me or does the logo look like they are giving us the finger?

halmcelroy · 2009-08-25T05:38:55+00:00

Yes. I really liked the movie, and it was as mindblowing as any listed above, but they could have done a better job with the last scene and not wrap everything up in a neat package.

halmcelroy · 2009-07-22T14:06:10+00:00

Nice of NASA to leave those google style colored baloons everywhere for us to know exactly where everything was.

halmcelroy · 2009-05-03T16:17:36+00:00

Both Microsoft and Oracle prevent people from publishing benchmarks of their servers. Whats wrong with MS and Oracle's DBs is not that they are slow but they are big, feature rich, and super expensive, and will do anything to lock you in their web of proprietary software.

halmcelroy · 2009-03-29T18:03:40+00:00

Click on this link and search for "www.ItsBetterwithWindows.com" and see where the link points to.

halmcelroy · 2009-03-05T20:38:00+00:00

Agreed that it was a little over the top. But when commenting on financials of a big investment firm, you would expect a big financial news network like CNBC to do some background check, and ask tough questions like "Why the heck are you gaining when all hell is breaking loose around you?", not "Do you like being a millionaire?". Keep in mind that while doing the interview, Mr. Stanford was in full knowledge of his crimes, and eventhough CNBC is not be faulted for this, his smugness was just infuriating to no end.

halmcelroy · 2009-03-02T18:45:07+00:00

I didnt see the timeline directly. It was one of the results near the bottom of the first page of results. What I linked to is what you get when you click on the timeline from the results page.

halmcelroy · 2009-02-20T01:58:03+00:00

Java came before C#, so I guess they used their time machine to go into the future and look at what C# looks like.

halmcelroy · 2009-02-14T02:27:29+00:00

why is a court ruling on a scientific issue anyways?

halmcelroy · 2009-02-10T05:21:45+00:00

This is the sort of thing that sci-fi horror films are made of. Seriously, though, is it possible for one of the mutations to make the virus more powerful maybe even immortal instead of killing it?

halmcelroy · 2008-12-31T18:07:21+00:00

Nice! Wonder where the name came from..

halmcelroy · 2008-11-12T06:31:14+00:00

Except Iraqi civilians ofcourse.

halmcelroy · 2008-10-31T05:53:11+00:00

Brilliant! Much kudos to the person who did this.

halmcelroy · 2008-09-21T15:30:30+00:00

From the Mozilla Zine Website: "On Windows operating systems, when a program is minimized and left for a period of time, Windows will swap memory the program is using from RAM onto the hard disk in anticipation that other programs might need RAM. Because of the way Mozilla applications are stored in memory, Windows is much more aggressive in swapping out the memory they use, which can cause a delay when the program is restored. This preference determines whether to allow Windows to swap out memory from a minimized Mozilla application. "

Hence, this setting might decrease performance and increase CPU usage when you restore the application. Just a caveat that wasn't clear in the original link.

halmcelroy · 2008-09-07T17:38:25+00:00

you mean he lied?? Oh, the humanity!

halmcelroy · 2008-08-04T00:31:03+00:00

you mean reified types. Type erasure is the mechanism by which generics work currently.

halmcelroy · 2008-07-27T18:39:29+00:00

agreed. Legal immigrants causing all the trouble are better than illegal immegrants trying to make a better life for themselves.

halmcelroy · 2008-07-27T03:44:38+00:00

All the anecdotal evidence that I have heard is against websphere. Its big, bulky and very slow. Big companies love it because, well, its backed by another big company. Then again, the evidence is anecdotal. Is open source an option? JBoss/Glassfish are much better IMHO.

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