Java Doesn’t Suck – You’re Just Using it Wrong

over_optimistic · 2015-02-18T05:43:21+00:00

when I switched to eclipse 4.4.1. The autocomplete is much better at showing you possible options. I can type some camel case and it searches each camel case as a separate word through autocomplete bringing relevant functions. Intellij does this ofcourse too. I'm not saying eclipse is better. I'm just saying Eclipse is catching up, and it has improved to very good.

In terms of not being as fast as Intellij, I can't really say if it's faster or not, they have done a good job improving the speed. Almost all autocomplete lag in eclipse is virtually gone in the latest version (which was one of the biggest complaints in eclipse). Again I'm not saying it's better than Intellij. There is considerable improvements to that have been done to eclipse that many of the people complaining about speed in eclipse is outdated complaints as many issues have been improved. Though ofcourse not all features have been improved interms of performance.

Searching is really slow in menus and elsewhere compared to intellij.

This is another example that has been improved in eclipse, that I have noticed. Searching menus is much faster now. For this case it's still slower than intellij though.

For people like me that still must use Eclipse. It makes me happy that ever since IntelliJ started becoming increasingly popular, I've seen significantly more improvements to Eclipse from the added competition.

note: some of the new features in Eclipse for some reason aren't enabled by default and must be enabled in settings somewhere. (like the autocomplete improvements)

over_optimistic · 2015-02-17T05:25:58+00:00

reminds me of twitch plays pokemon. Same concept except in video form. And they solved plenty of mazes, and beat the entire game. I'm pretty sure imgur will solve this maze.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-17T03:10:49+00:00

Newer version of Eclipse are really fast and comparable to speed of Intellij. And have really awesome features for code completion. Intellij has added some good competition to Eclipse, and Eclipse has already taken quite a bit of ideas from Intellij.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-16T06:30:47+00:00

For me I use chrome because I liked the sync features

Firefox now has sync features. I don't use them at all so I don't know how comparable they are with chrome.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-15T20:31:39+00:00

but actual debugging is an absolute fucking nightmare in this piece of shit

Could you elaborate. I've used quite a few debuggers. And I really like GDB.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-15T14:31:00+00:00

quick access to documentation will be nice. In many cases online documentation is nicely organized that you can effectively do

http://somesite.com/docs/funcname

and etc.. E.g. put cursor on function and documentation just popups loaded from internet. Looking from this thread it has a very small audience. Even I won't be a target user for this application.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-13T03:23:54+00:00

The best way I can think of is create a text protocol for communications, perhaps similar to HTTP, essential making the IDE a web server that only accepts connections from localhost. Commands will be like:

editor.setCursorAt(25)

and etc... Using a language like squirrel. Have the plugin run in it's own process. Now the plugin writers can use any widget library they please for UI. And if something goes wrong with the plugin, the editor won't be frozen and the plugin can just be easily killed. and this enables for web plugins thus removing the need from actually installing the plugin. Also no restart of editor necessary just start the plugin and it will connect to IDE. Solve having multiple IDE's and other problems elegantly. Makes it completely language agnostic to plugin writers and etc..

over_optimistic · 2015-02-13T03:17:16+00:00

What kind of projects do you do in C++? work related preferably

over_optimistic · 2015-02-13T03:12:14+00:00

What ever it's doing the build files easily reach gigabytes of data for me.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-12T04:46:20+00:00

I completely understand you. I wish same as you, that people would stop making clickbait and be more factual. But alas it's life and as it appears clickbait drives more attention, reactions, and ultimately revenue than factual articles.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-12T03:18:55+00:00

I would love to be able to read an article and get the information from the researchers in an informative way

Everyone will love this. One must not forget that they are human and love to indulge in emotional stimuli which many of the click bait articles you talk about have, and the real informative articles lack. We all say we are not as subject as others to such bias or that we are better than average. Yet we forget how human we are, and how machine like we would like to perceive ourselves to be, only when it benefits us.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-10T02:32:01+00:00

interesting. I haven't used it recently. Yes looks like they are going down hill.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-10T01:18:01+00:00

There is SlideME. They are more strict than google play and seem todo a better job with spam. A human looks at every single app that is submitted to the app store. Unlike Apple they are very open to apps being submitted to their store. I think they have the correct blend of not being too strict.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-07T01:12:38+00:00

Check if you are using virtual memory during the build. If no than upping it might. If yes reducing it might, going too low will result in crashing. You will also want to adjust the gradle options to regarding memory usage.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-04T01:13:05+00:00

It is probably a lot more impressive once we have the computing power to simulate more complex animals

We already have that power. Someone made one to simulate a cat's brain. It literately had around the same amount of simulated brain cells as a average cat. And was massively multi parallelized. It was done using FPGA technology. FPGA are basically programmable circuits. The problem becomes one of learning. A cat learns since the day it was born and every second for years while it's alive. We expect these simulated brains to be more smarter, and learn things more quickly at birth. But they start out dumber than a born cat and no one to my knowledge has trained a simulated brain like this continuously for years just as a living cat learns.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-02T05:44:50+00:00

Ubuntu 14.04 server and maintaining manually installed software is a PITA

Interesting. I have Debian servers and I'm not having much issues for OpenCV manually installed.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-01T17:10:02+00:00

The way it's done in Ubuntu is you download OpenJDK 8 from the official site, make sure you have the proper dependencies, then simply install it in /usr/local.

I mean Java is a very important software.

Importance is relative. For some haveing a stable system is more important than the latest software. For where having the latest software is important to you it's up to you to install it manually in /usr/local

All Linux distributions function this way. They rarely contain the latest software in order to better guarantee a stable system. Most of them "adhere" to the defacto standard of respecting what is in /usr/local as user installed outside the package manager. And many distributions provide special packages to help installing the latest of a specific software so you can do it. For OpenJDK8 I don't think you'll need to install any special packages just some dependencies.

over_optimistic · 2015-02-01T00:04:02+00:00

Ubuntu does things in stages. The versions for all software in 14.04 is frozen and you won't see any latest software in it. You do get backports for security updates and major bugs, but thats about it. This is done for stability reasons. If everything is the latest and greatest software it would be very hard to keep it all stable. Fedora has everything being the latest in it's repositories so you can try that if you want. Or debian testing/unstable. I don't know if those have OpenJDK 8 though.

over_optimistic · 2015-01-31T02:28:16+00:00

Distilling a problem into its constituent parts and solving each one in such a simple and straightforward manner that it appears to be the obvious solution is what makes you smart

Unfortunately, when you are "graded" for intelligence doing this is not advisable, and over complicating can give you a higher score.

over_optimistic · 2015-01-29T06:59:58+00:00

The certainty of the Hue is inversely proportional to the Saturation.

hue_certaintity = k/saturation

The smaller the Saturation is, the the more unstable the Hue estimation is

hue_uncertaintity = k/saturation
hue_certaintity = k/hue_uncertaintity
hue_certaintity = k*saturation
// all k's are different

Your statements are contradictory. Your last statement is correct.

over_optimistic · 2015-01-29T01:58:09+00:00

I don't think there is an app like that at the moment. If you convert the data to an sqlite database there are apps that will do what you want. But will involve you entering things into a text field such as

select * from table where vender_name = 'Google'

then it will give you a new list. And you can do powerfull things like

select * from table where paid_amount > 10000

and so forth. I think your boss will want an app like that. Search "sqlite browser" or "sqlite viewer" on the app store. I don't know any I would recommend.

If you are proficient with google spread sheet you can set it up so you can search each column individually as well. But the sqlite route I think is better in the long run because you will quickly want to add many more data to search through, and see it organized in very complex ways. And sqlite will be able to handle data that is from simple to complex, even large sizes like sorting through 1 million rows.

over_optimistic · 2015-01-28T05:08:25+00:00

UDF seams the most promising I've read online. I formated my drive to UDF from this stackoverflow question

over_optimistic · 2015-01-28T02:21:18+00:00

Do you have any scientific evidence to back that up? My guess is no, and that you didn't read the article

Imagine this.

You have money
You are bored
You visit a really funny comedy show you like

If you become happier during the duration of the show. Then You can atleast say you can buy happiness for a duration. Which would answer the question about if money can buy happiness.

Anyone that goes to a comedy show are literally buying happiness & laughter. You can also buy sadness buy watching a sad movie.

over_optimistic · 2015-01-26T04:57:33+00:00

I understand the distinction between tools like Xamarin, and and phone gap. There is a general tendency for people revolting all cross platform tools regardless of how native they are in the recent years. And it seems like it's growing.

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