If you're going to go to all that trouble, you may as well switch to a numeral system with a base that's evenly divisible by more than just 2 and 5. 12 would be a good choice. Try 30 if you *really* like being able to easily divide by 5 as well as 2 and 3.

I once had this argument with my (at the time) girlfriend. It didn't end well.

Some things you didn't mention that I am used. Pro:

• Easily rename methods, move classes around, and otherwise refactor code.

Con:

• Eats up all resources on my computer (though this may be specific to Eclipse, but Eclipse also has the best refactoring tools of any IDE I've tried, so meh).

Code I've written using Eclipse is *much* easier to follow than code I wrote in Emacs* because refactoring is so much faster. Yeah, you can search-replace and hope you didn't get any unintended matches and use unit tests and the compiler's error messages to help you out, but it's a pain compared to {<select name>, F2, <type new name>, enter}, so I find myself avoiding it until I'm at a machine with Eclipse.

*for all I know, there's scripts for Emacs that would help with refactoring, but they're not as obvious to me.

No mod points today, but this.

For collections of large files that Git doesn't handle so efficiently (my photo and music collections), I use a custom git-like system (https://github.com/TOGoS/ContentCouch).

Back when I was still using XP (I've since switched to Linux and am getting by without multiple desktops on my home Windows 7 machine), VirtualDimension worked pretty well for me. You can give shortcut keys (I used Win+1-0) to switch between them, and it works by hiding all windows except those on the 'current desktop'. Some applications (most notably web browsers) would get sometimes get stuck on all the desktops if they were summoned to appear by another program while you were looking at a different desktop than the one you had put them on. Reason would seem to hang if I switched desktops while its file open dialog was open. But once I learned to avoid these situations it was perfectly useable.

I also used SlickRun and had each virtual desktop span 2 monitors and didn't run into any conflicts.

Angry birds is already doing it.

This is what someone called, uhm, 'emergent ideas', or something. You think of something new only to find out someone else announced the same project a week ago!

Java apps tend to be slow because a lot of 'standard practices' (which could be more accurately called 'n00b practices') encourage inefficient constructs.

If you know what the heck you're doing, you can write very snappy programs in Java. Otherwise your apps are going to suck regardless.

* Build a JAR file
* Anyone with Java installed can run it

Is why. And the JVM is a pretty solid platform. I'm not a huge fan of the language itself, but no other platform comes close in terms of simplicity of development and deployment.

I needed more reasons to quit AT&T; maybe now I finally will (we have some other, crappy-in-different-ways competitors here in Madison, WI).