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by Sandman 15y ago
Exactly. And if you look at the OP's nick, you'll notice that he is the author of this blog post. As a matter of fact, if you check out his submissions ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mainguy ) you'll notice that he has a habit o
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Encrypting passwords in config files – secure or not?(t-rob.net)
1 points by Sandman 15y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
You do realize that Flex already is open source?[1] About OpenLaszlo... I thought that it could become important one day; however, this never happened. I haven't looked into OL for quite some time now, but what can it offer that you can't
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by Sandman 15y ago
That being said, I'd like to quote these passages from the official Java tutorial: "Generally speaking, do not throw a RuntimeException or create a subclass of RuntimeException simply because you don't want to be bothered with specifying t
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by Sandman 15y ago
Yeah, but applets never really took off, for numerous reasons. One of them being that you needed to have a Java browser plug-in installed in order for them to work. This new language I'm talking about would either need to be understood nati
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by Sandman 15y ago
Maybe the answer is for all browsers to just standardize on one rendering engine / JS implementation Heh, this would be an ideal situation, but good luck trying to get them to agree on that. The browser wars are not over yet, who knows if
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by Sandman 15y ago
Edw519 merely stated his opinion that the use of swear words adds nothing to Zach's speeches, and you, instead of writing a post explaining why there's nothing wrong with the occasional use of swear words in presentations, decide to write a
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by Sandman 15y ago
You should believe neither them nor trevor99. Look at the facts and draw your own conclusions.
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by Sandman 15y ago
1. Java is a statically typed language so yes, the types need to be defined and known at compile time. Some people like static typing, others not so much. If you fall into the second group, there's a whole lot of dinamically typed languages
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by Sandman 15y ago
In that case, what's the use of compiling to java source code, why not compile directly to bytecode?
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by Sandman 15y ago
I'm actually kind of worried about what the generated Java code will look like. From what I can see from the greeter example, it's.. well, not very pretty. It certainly looks nothing like what one would normally write if one was writing pur
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by Sandman 15y ago
Isn't comparing Go to Xtend something like comparing apples to oranges? The first one is a language that can be used for low-level development. The other one provides a nicer syntax and some cool features for Java. If anything, it can be co
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by Sandman 15y ago
Could you elaborate on this further? I ask this because not every application is about document processing.
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by Sandman 15y ago
A mistake that should not be made again.
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by Sandman 15y ago
While most of the commenters here discuss what Stallman said and what he actualy meant, whether it was distasteful or not, and whether Jobs was a modern day messiah who single-handedly changed the world we live in or just a smart business m
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by Sandman 15y ago
Not really, croatian is my mother tongue, and that's a slavic language. But I admit, it would be a lot harder, I think, to keep this attitude if the language of our profession was a language more complicated than english. We can consider ou
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by Sandman 15y ago
I don't buy the language barrier argument. So what if there's little documentation in japanese, I don't see why these developers couldn't just learn the languages and frameworks by reading the documentation in english. Unless they don't spe
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by Sandman 15y ago
If a french or german court decides that a foreign company is violating their laws, they can do little besides preventing them from reaching their market, which would in this case mean that they can order ISPs to block the site. I'm pretty
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by Sandman 15y ago
Is this just your opinion or do you have some examples to back it up? I don't see why a US judge would care at all if a US company breaks laws of another country.
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by Sandman 15y ago
I agree, it would've been nice if the OP had mentioned that this is a PDF in the title of the submission. However, yelling and cursing is, I think, below the level of discussion we'd like to see here on HN. A simple remark in the comment wo
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Forget Apps, Carbyn Has Built A HTML5 OS(techcrunch.com)
4 points by Sandman 15y ago|7 comments
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Dick Cheney: Torture of al-Qaida leaders produced phenomenal results(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by Sandman 15y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
So add a 'throws' clause to the method in which you call the code that throws the checked exception and it will propagate upward.
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Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution(livescience.com)
2 points by Sandman 15y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
Think that's a long time? Check out how many bugs Eclipse has, that were first reported over 10 years ago: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?type0-1-0=equals;o...
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A new way to detect secret nuclear tests: GPS(thebulletin.org)
43 points by Sandman 15y ago|6 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
After you enter your address, a button appears prompting you to click on it to open the pdf. Then you just save it.
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by Sandman 15y ago
Type inference helps with that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
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Hackers Post BART Police Names & Addresses Online(mashable.com)
2 points by Sandman 15y ago|1 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
Without the license specified, the author still retains the copyright. Just one minor correction: The author holds the copyright regardless of whether the code is released under a license (open source or proprietary) or not. The fact that

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