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greatsuccess··on Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows?
Before you wonder about stack overflows, as yourself why the occupants never applied the brakes.
greatsuccess··on Java SE 8 Date and Time
Actually it looks like Java 8 will improve on Joda-Time, its far from perfect.
greatsuccess··on Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge
The badges wont look like this with the standard security camera mugshot that security offices use and the picture is probably too small to make them happy as well.

Other than that nice job. I don't think it will be implemented.

greatsuccess··on Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge
PS, I was fired from MS for posting an image of myself online where my badge was clear enough to copy..

Yeah i seriously doubt that

greatsuccess··on Why and how I write Java
I wish folks would stop writing Java dev tools in Java. Maven would be 2X faster, eclipse wouldnt pause 2 seconds after every context menu is requested.

I find that the Java community seems fine with this, but wehen you have been doing this stuff for decades, Eclipse slowing me down on nearly every click and keystroke is NOT ok.

Im fine with Java, I just dont want to use Java to make java apps anymore.

greatsuccess··on Why and how I write Java
I rolled my own java scripting tool. Its pretty easy to do, but I think that most folks do this with Groovy now.
greatsuccess··on Why and how I write Java
True, I just dont like Google's take on Java so I dont use any of their libraries.
greatsuccess··on Why and how I write Java
A little surprised Spring is not mentioned. Composition in Java is a nightmare without Spring, and you can do some really interesting things in configuration that would take you days of writing initialization code in very little time.

If not for Spring, I'm not sure I would want to construct things in Java at all.

greatsuccess··on Mt. Gox Impact Diminishes as Market Price Dissociates
Its hard to say whether this disassociation is really good for anyone. Its probably a fair assumption that some exchanges have accounts at Gox to take advantage of their (formerly) higher exchange rate. If my speculation is correct Mt Gox while being dissociated may protect individuals, but could doom other exchanges if they have significant holdings there. Individuals wont know until its too late.
greatsuccess··on Volkswagen's US workers vote against joining union
If US VW workers made the money they do in Europe, they would be begging to join the union.
greatsuccess··on Losing graciously
The "new stewards of PID 1" == welcome to your imminent doom.
greatsuccess··on Bitcoin transaction malleability: looking at the bytes
Ken is amazing for providing this level of detail. Thanks dude.
greatsuccess··on How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help
Never underestimate mob mentality. When one officer apologizes for another, its simply a case of good cop bad cop and that officer excusing themselves for the same behavior on a different day.

This is the problem with creating an underclass of criminals in the first place, it excuses vast overreach in the execution of even the simplest tasks of law enforcement, to intimidate and exert power over another, and to simply abuse.

greatsuccess··on Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
Contact scraping is the only thing keeping social media going. I say let it die.
greatsuccess··on We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
Its called android
greatsuccess··on Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_Source
greatsuccess··on Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
The beauty of open source is that Stallman doesnt really matter. There is no community developing around Android except for the google play store because to do so would be futile. (Yes I actually READ the article).

If a text blob of nonsense at the top of a source file makes you open source then WOW. How about Doge-Source? Such open, very free.

greatsuccess··on Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A
This was my first thought as well, besides the fact that the NSA wants to appear that Snowden was a "hacker" or a "mastermind" of some kind.

Crawlers tend to die when challenged with authentication. Right... But then they go on to make it worse by saying if he hadn't used this supposed "crawler" that their ultra-fancy security would have detected the intrusion.

Really? Really.

I call bullshit. He had access to all these servers, all he had to do was netuse some windows shares and fill up his thumbdrive. Probably took a total of 45 minutes.

I feel bad for the. (wha?) No I dont!

greatsuccess··on Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
It "bothers" you? How can it "bother" you? You arent an AOSP developer.

The license is not what the author is referring to, he's referring to the fact that YOU, or I or ANYONE cannot sign up to develop AOSP and contribute to the project because its just a code dump from google with a license.

Thats NOT open source and if you think the license makes it so then you need to go up and try to make a commit no matter how trivial to AOSP. Dont be a fool...fool.

greatsuccess··on How I Hacked My Husband's Programming Addiction
And while were broadsiding barns with the word "addict", lets take a moment to reflect what addiction really is!. Phil Hoffman RIP.
greatsuccess··on How I Hacked My Husband's Programming Addiction
Programmers know nothing of logic. This article is a fabricated advert like most of HuffPo's content.

A true programming addict would even bother with the dishes.

Now Yahoo pay attention! if you could only insult the average persons intelligence while selling ads that look like content! (oh wait)

greatsuccess··on Make the Type System Do the Work
Its clever but it doesnt scale to writing systems. Its just a hack.
greatsuccess··on Make the Type System Do the Work
This is fairly the premise of OOP on display. And fairly basic at that. Im not sure whats to be learned here except that in the real world, your representations will always need to be extended and subclassing is usually a bad hammer.

Interfaces are better but extend poorly through subclassing as well.

Composition is infinite but difficult to define over time when things change (usually resorts to more subclassing or more injection strategies).

I wish this article were valuable to solving the actual problem but its just a primer on OOP vs using primitives which is not particularly instructive or useful to solving real world problems.

greatsuccess··on The complete guide to centering a div
The fact that centering a div requires a complete guide is tragicomically sad and a condemnation of our industry.
greatsuccess··on Bitcoin is a cryptographic botnet
Also once the condescension is done, if you want to know what the maintainers of bitcoin have to say about any of this all you have to ask is,

So where did this code "come from"??. Cue grasshoppers and frogs.

Im so glad its up on github though. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.

greatsuccess··on Bitcoin is a cryptographic botnet
Thanks for the bait, FYI Ive implemented a shit-ton of protocols. Your comment is the experience level of a 20 year old shitty PHP junky.
greatsuccess··on Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
Personally the fact that your spam links to the legislators wikipedia pages is top on HN shows that 1) you have nothing to say on the subject, 2) you are a spammer, and 3) that you are probably a complete idiot who could give a shit about the topic and 4) that HN is a complete fucking waste of time with people like you posting in the comments.
greatsuccess··on Objective-C Generics
Cue pointless duck typing flamewar...
greatsuccess··on Scaling Mercurial at Facebook
Partitioning is the answer. In a repo that size 99% of the history is useless to anyone. You wouldnt manage a database like this so why force SCM down this path?

If they used git with say only the last year of history in it they would be having zero issues.

greatsuccess··on Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection
I don't believe in this data structure. Its ill informed Rich Hickey nonsense and it doesnt scale and has no purpose but to seem clever.
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