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May 16	comment	Did the developers of Java consciously abandon RAII? iow RAII was not "abandoned", it simply didn't exist to be abandoned :) As to copy constructors, I've never liked them, too easy to get wrong, they're a constant source of headaches when somewhere deep down someone (else) forgot to make a deep copy, causing resources to be shared between copies that should not be.
May 2	comment	I want to program, my school won't help me school is (or is supposed to) teaching you to learn, cherish that. Most kids your age hate school, or claim to, because they still think that life should be all play and no work, that everything should be provided them without effort. Now is the time to learn otherwise.
Apr 25	comment	Refusing to review code @MichaelShaw " he'll see it as a personal attack." which the wording of the question sounds like to me, a personal attack on a more senior dev with whom OP has a difference of opinion he can now "win" because he's been put in a position of power.
Apr 18	comment	Using industrial earmuffs while programming to filter out talking if your workplace is so noisy you need such things to work efficiently, maybe it's time to take organisational measures rather than resorting to technical ones? Your manager, and/or HR and/or facilities management are the place to go.
Apr 10	comment	Why do people still say Java is slow? server VM is optimised for long running processes, therefore preloads more which leads to longer startup times and tends to use more RAM. Client VM is optimised for lower footprint and startup times, but may have lower runtime performance.
Apr 10	comment	Why do people still say Java is slow? which may just be because 75% of people writing programs that make the final rounds think Java is slow without ever having tested it and therefore use C++ instead because they believe it is fast without ever having tested it.
Apr 10	comment	Why do people still say Java is slow? Eclipse is faster than Visual Studio. But it all depends on versions. VS6 was faster than Eclipse 1, VS2005 was much slower than Eclipse 2, VS2010 is still slower than Eclipse 3, but has improved performance more than has Eclipse in between versions.
Apr 10	comment	Why do people still say Java is slow? @nawfal most people I know (including myself) who won't touch Norton with a 10 foot pole are that way not because it's slow but because it's (or used to be) spyware.
Apr 2	comment	How to deal with warnings in a legacy project @JanHudec might want to do an analysis into the severity of the warnings in those cases, maybe schedule some time to revisit that old code and do a cleanup on selected bits, refactor to keep it alive. Else it may get stale and people afraid to touch it even if needed because nobody is left knows how it works.
Mar 27	comment	What would motivate you to do free programming work for work after work? well said, only way I've ever seen a company get people to show up in numbers for after hours unpaid meetings is through coercion (the all too often used "if you don't show up for those things you're going to get a bad performance review"). And all those companies had a very high turnover of medior and senior staff, they just won't put up with such things for longer than it takes to find a better place to work.
Mar 27	comment	Benefits of combining programming languages well said Giorgio. The whole "closures" thing in Java 8 is a prime example of how to ruin a programming language for the sake of bolting on something the language was never designed for.
Mar 26	comment	Benefits of combining programming languages @Landei and as a result most languages over time become monstrosities that become harder and harder to use and learn, until a new language is constructed that's lightweight, easy to learn, and flexible. That's how we got C, Pascal, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, you name it.
Mar 26	comment	Benefits of combining programming languages incorrect. If 2 tools each serve a good purpose, no need to corrupt one or either to become a bland mix of them both, just use them both together.
Mar 21	comment	Mobile-first implementation or desktop-first? they're actually more for Firefox "fixes". In this case, the decision which CSS file to link from the html should be made on the server, and only the link to that one sent to the client, not a conditional block.
Mar 21	comment	Mobile-first implementation or desktop-first? why not create 2 CSS files and generate your html on the fly to include only the one applicable for the platform (which you can determine from the incoming request)?
Mar 20	comment	mastering a programming language @abhithepandey if all your "questions" were like this one I can fully understand why they were closed.
Mar 19	comment	Writing a program for my job - considerations? you're paid to develop it, as you're paid for the time you spend creating it. That means you're doing it for hire, you're under contract to the company, it belongs to them whether it's explicitly mentioned in your contract you're a programmer or not. My contract doesn't state I'm a photographer, yet if I were to make photographs during work hours for use in our sales brochures or a whitepaper they'd belong to the company, not to me. Same thing.
Mar 19	comment	Writing a program for my job - considerations? well said, any work done on company time belongs to the company. Furthermore, many companies will have clauses stating any work done outside company time using company resources belongs to the company as well (so if he were to write that program on his company laptop at home weekends it'd still belong to the company).
Mar 19	comment	How much attention should be paid to patents when developing software? " "Almost" because in some cases the amount of damages is proportional to the harm done against the original owner of the product." Not really. It's more related to how much money they can get out of you. So if you're a small non-profit with a few thousand dollars turnover a year you're less likely to get sued than if you're a major corporation with a turnover of billions even if the damage to the claimant is the same. A large, powerful, non-profit is unlikely to get sued because of the negative PR that causes for the claimant, not because there's no money to be had there...
Mar 19	comment	Advanced Java Articles if you can't think of anything but programming at all, ever, you're on a very fast track to a major burnout and serious physical and mental problems. Find a hobby.