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Corollary: AOP is the enemy of refactoring.

You unwittingly changed one of the (seemingly unused/unnecessary) pointcuts and your aspects aren't firing anymore. While not impossible to track down, these problems are difficult to resolve.

fyi alex knapp is full of shit: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response

i can already see sysop geeks setting up budget for massive sound systems in the dc. y'know, for fire protection...

I think linguistic skills of someone who saws pieces of wood for a living are less relevant than for someone who conjures up high abstract concepts and communicates them to man and machine alike.

Precisely!

I've been using ORM pattern throughout my career, and have even designed/built one 10 years ago because what was available at the time wasn't gonna cut it functionality- and performance-wise for the system we were building (a real-time bond trading system). Nowadays most mainstream ORMs do the job rather adequately.

Having said that, I have a fair share of gripes against most of them, but I still find that people who bitch the most about ORMs are those who understand it (and the problem it tries to solve) the least.

If you think you can avoid knowing SQL by using ORM, you don't understand what ORM is and what problem it tries to solve.

Namely, what you can't avoid, if building an object-oriented system, is that you ultimately need to map those DB values to your live objects. Whether you end up using an off-the-shelf ORM or you hand-code the SQL yourself is less relevant.

Odds are if you eschew an ORM in favor of hand-coded SQL layer, you'll end up writing one anyways - only you're likely to do a shittier job of it than people who understand the problem area far more intimately (e.g. Hibernate committers).

that biden is a stooge for the entertainment industry is no secret, though i doubt he could've made this happen at a drop of the hat, as the article purports.

mpaa chairman chris dodd is an influential democrat with strong ties to the obama administration, biden in particular. entertainment industry has historically had an oversized presence in washington, and the tech industry an undersized one. this is why our copyright debate has been driven by an incumbent-dominated industry rather than the innovator/disruptor one such as ours.

it's telling that we've all so negatively reacted to recent story of washington telling apple to spend more on lobbying, calling it a shakedown - but we'd be wise to think about that more carefully and not dismiss at our own peril.

that may be because you actually oversleep. unless you're very young (<20yo), 7h of sleep is likely all you need, and anything less than 6h or more than 8h will leave you tired and lacking energy.

carreon v. the internet. mr carreon is clearly intent on leaving his mark on the history of internet.

a skid mark, perhaps, but mark no less.

the main reason i use android over iphone is the seamless integration of google voice, and gv already gives me access to my sms & vmail from the browser.

imho, the solution isn't to build yet another android app but to make google voice a natural/default choice for android users. if you have an android phone and haven't tried google voice yet, i highly recommend you give it a shot. having used it for the last few years, i can't imagine ever going back to carrier sms/vmail.

in light of google's "alarm" over take-down notices from usa, canada, and other "free" nations, i wouldn't be surprised in the least if our own governments were complicit in this authoritarian takeover.

facebook really seems to be intent on becoming the world's largest photo-sharing site.

the question is: are they planning to transform that from "omg check out these crazy party pics" into "everything is photographed and we've identified everyone involved" variety?

it seems to me that the implications of this line of progress are incomprehensibly far-reaching...

one aspect this "superstar"-worship drivel^Harticle seems to ignore is the organizational contribution to success.

i'd argue that individual contribution to any given project of substance is greatly overestimated, while contribution of the team (organization/culture/whatever) is unfairly underestimated.

even in professional sports, superstar a winning team does not make.

downvoters clearly haven't been linux users cca 1999...

Newegg: party like it's 1999...

what other hoops do you think i should jump through in order to find out more about their product?

It blows my mind that someone would post a release note without an easily accessible "About X" or "5 minute intro to X" link...

interrogators will routinely ask questions to which they already know answers so that they can establish a baseline for "truthfulness" (sort of a human lie detector).

they also need to engage the subject in a conversation and may ask most banal/unrelated questions, as well as keep asking the same question in a different way.

also, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cryptocat

Being dismissive/flippant does not help engender the trust that was already shaken by emailing me my password in clear text.

Where can I unregister my account?

Thanks for storing the password in clear text and sending it to me in the registration email!

Seriously, WTF? Have you slept through the last 20 years of information security research?

no, man, you don't understand: this is the genius of economy 3.0, where we all make money by sitting on our ass playing xbox 360 and selling farmville ads for funny, made-in-china t-shirts.

Pedantic nonsense. What exactly is the difference between "he's stupid" and "he's acting stupid"? The only one I can spot is the latter avoids labeling the person while still condemning them for the act. PC nonsense without substance, IMNSHO.

However, he does touch on something Dan Kahneman in his 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' talks about: most people stop thinking at first intuitive answer (aka System 1) and don't bother engaging in the tiring deep thought (aka System 2).

fantasy of violence != violence

former is protected under 1st amendment, latter is a criminal offense.

SLC blocks are huge, though, and (with exception of a thin strip along Main St), it was clearly not designed with walking in mind. Yes, there are sidewalks, but there's very little street furniture, retail is set far back and not at sidewalk level, and lights don't open for pedestrians unless you specifically press the button.

It's better than most, I agree, but still a far cry from NYC, Boston, or SF.

VP Biden is an enthusiastic supporter of the legacy entertainment industry incumbents; odds are Obama will sign a SOPA-style legislation while in office unless we raise hell like we did the 1st time around.

Not just companies, politics too. For example, many people were swooning over Obama as The One and soon found out that he's in fact a mere mortal with virtues and flaws like the rest of us. Then they turn against him because "he let them down", as if he could've ever lived up to their unreasonable , super-human expectations. The reality, of course, is that the world is a messy place and we all do some really good things, and some really bad things, and a whole bunch of mediocre things. Microsoft makes a seamless office suite & email+calendar solution, Apple makes some really good hardware that leverages airtight software integration, and Google makes Web that much more tolerable to use. Thinking that any of them is Perfection Incarnate - or Beelzebub himself, on the other end of the spectrum - is infantile and counterproductive.

Didn't you get the memo? Hating on Google is the new "Micro$oft"...

> I have come to believe that a decent programmer can and should be able to work well enough without an IDE.

Let me help you understand how absurd your statement is: "I have come to believe that a decent builder can and should be able to work well enough without power tools."

"my girlfriend and I"