Civilians, by nature should be valued as equally as possible. Obviously, a state's military has a duty to their own citizens, but I think we should find a way to avoid civilian deaths on each side. It is not their fight. Their children didn't ask for this. As decent human beings, it is our duty to prevent harm to civilians on either side.

As often as we need. We push based on features. Although we sometimes slip into batching up production moves. I find it is much easier to push often when you work with people that are unafraid of branching based on feature requests.

I'm just glad we don't do the "quarterly push" like some do. It sure saves us a lot of troubleshooting in the chance that the push introduces a production error.

Meh...

If you are not smart enough to install non-market Android apps, you have no problem.

If you are smart enough to install non-market Android apps, you know what you are getting into.

With great power comes great responsibility. I think these pieces keep surfacing because the Anti-Virus companies desperately need to get into this market. They see it is the future and they want a piece of it.

You did exactly the right thing. Pick up a fun, trendy, and easy to start language. The Android SDK is easy to pick up and can really teach you how to write good Java code.

I do the whole Enterprise Java, Spring, etc. job by day, but learn way more when programming in my free time on Android, PHP, etc. It gives me a fulfilled feeling and gives me the skills to advance my programming career far more than relying on my employer to provide training opportunities.

Exactly what I was thinking. Sounds like an Ocean's plot. If they simplify the plot a little, it could be a stunt for Fast and Furious 6 as well... Attach two Dodge Chargers to spaceship and drive through LA like mad.

In my experience, I think it is best to let the riders decide. The first, and probably obvious point, is that the only victim of a bike accident is probably going to be the biker. I don't know that we need laws protecting us from ourselves.

Secondly, this article is completely correct. I never wore helmets when I was young. The only exception was for BMX biking over jumps and all. Even at a young age, you understand the importance of self preservation. Today, I wear a helmet when I am mountain biking or when I want to better condition myself for wearing a helmet while mountain biking.

Otherwise, I prefer to leave the helmet at home. I've gotten heat stroke before (while biking on safe roads) and I will say that it was far more dangerous than any accident I ever sustained on a paved bike path or road. And helmets do make your head a little hotter. Besides, when you are on a safe trail or road, it's nice to feel the wind on your head and just feel closer to your surroundings. Biking is for more than transportation, it is for the joy of the ride.

If you are not on a custom Rom, you will not get an upgrade until 1) The manufacturer provides the approved upgrade, and 2) The carrier determines whether they will push OTA the upgrade. While the carrier may not always be a huge part of the upgrade, they make it happen in the end. All the more reason to jump on XDA and get a custom rom for your device.

For example, Eclipse gives a nice preview of methods and pulls in the javadoc into the tooltip when hovering over the comment. Therefore, I try to keep these up to date.

On the other hand, comments that just say the method name, or cannot be expected to be maintained, should not be created.

On the point of good code, yes you can write good code and reduce the need for comments, but there are just times when a comment is necessary. For example, there may be code for something that programmers (or humans in general) are not intuitively familiar with. Industry specific items in science, financials, etc. would qualify. If you ever expect a new person to come on and modify your code, you need to make sure they can jump in quickly. A quick comment as to what an industry specific item is, can go a long way to reducing the learning curve and allowing the contractor/new employee/etc to focus on what they are good at (coding).