Comment Re:Eclipse is better if you are a beginner (Score 1) 586
...says the Java programmer...
Haters gonna hate.
...says the Java programmer...
Haters gonna hate.
Eclipse is better if you're a pro, too. It makes navigating around large code bases very easy.
Ignore all the morons who think we should all still be digging holes with spoons instead of power equipment.
Ugh, as always happens I poorly phrase the first sentence of my post and everyone jumps on it. I wasn't saying debuggers are bad, or at least wasn't trying to - just that in Java, the standard library has a tendency to return null when something goes wrong rather than throw an exception, which means you don't get told about the cause of the issue, just when it shows up later as a null pointer exception. This can lead to using the debugger a lot or looking through the code to track it down. I hope that clarifies my point.
I agree that APIs should avoid returning null wherever it is reasonable to do so, and that the standard Java library is not perfect. However, I am darn glad the standard Java library is as comprehensive as it is. It saves me a lot of time having to hunt down third party libraries that may or may not be affordable, or may or may not have licensing terms that I can accept.
I think Python is much worse in its "anything can throw an exception at any time" design, and I am glad I don't have to use it very much anymore.
That really isn't true. Typing bugs show up with even the most trivial testing. I have written nontrivial stuff with Python, and it works fine as long as you have sane design.
Unit tests rarely, if ever, have 100% coverage.
It is the lazy programmer that uses dynamic typing so he can write less source code. Do the right thing by your users: write the extra (statically typed) code so your programs are more robust.
Plus, as I mentioned, it then allows for easy refactoring, to help keep your code base sane even after it has grown large and you realize some of your design decisions were wrong. And that happens in every nontrivial project, unless you are claiming you have some kind of super human design and coding ability.
I would argue needing a debugger is also a sign of language flaws. Debuggers help you find issues with your code while it runs. I've found that so much of the time those kind of issues are from stuff like Null objects - where you get an exception from a null object and then have to crawl up your code finding out where it came from. If the language was sane and threw exceptions on problems rather than returning null, there would be far less issues.
Not saying that debuggers are useless or that every problem a debugger is useful for could be solved, just that if you find yourself needing it often, maybe it's a sign something is going wrong with the language.
Did you even bother to try to understand what he said before you replied with your nonsense?
Here, let me help you: he uses the debugger and dynamic class loading as a REPL.
If you have ever written code in Python, you realise how much trivial stuff you have to do in Java which is hell without an IDE. I'm not saying IDEs are useless, they are great and can do awesome stuff for a developer, but Java has a serious problem where it's practically unusable without a massive IDE.
And if you have ever written something nontrivial in Python, you realize how much it sucks because you cannot refactor it easily, and too many dynamic typing bugs are left for you to discover (possibly at the customer site) at run time rather than compile time.
With all due respect to the article's author, he makes baseless assertion after baseless assertion. He is just another irrational Java hater.
Pushing to make Linux a viable platform is good for everyone.
I agree, but I cannot help but think it is a long shot:
I really, really would love Linux-on-the-desktop to become a more viable, more popular platform, but it seems like such a long shot...
And when you use tabs, it doesn't matter what tab size they assume. That is the point. Proper use of tabs means you use tabs to indent to the block level and spaces for further indentation, like so: { <-tab->a = long expression <-tab->____continued; }
It does matter, because some tools that are hard coded to 8 space tabs make things hard to read, like side by side diffs.
Also, I have used editors, like the AS/400 editor SEU, which displays a single inverse block character for tabs. It was pretty much impossible for me to maintain that code until I converted the project from tabs to spaces.
I use tabs because anyone can set the width to whatever they like (2, 4 or 8 spaces usually).
There still exists a lot of tools that assume tab stops are 8, without the ability to change them. Some people use those tools by choice, some people use those tools by mandate.
Thanks Ninjaroach! Both for the thanks and for posting with your ID and not AC.
A lot more people than just TheNinjaroach think Apache does a really great job on a lot of projects!
Apache is very much appreciated!
we all moved to LibreOffice
That may be the case, but you know, competition is good, even in the free software space...
The problem with comparing the 32 GB Surface to the 32 GB iPad is that you also need to factor in how much space Windows 8 RT takes compared to iOS. My understanding is that iOS takes considerably less space.
Also, some of us are not interested in Office.
In addition, some of us are not interested in beta testing a 1.0 product that costs, at a minimum, $500. Waiting until at least version 2.0 seems wise.
Plus, let's wait to see how Windows 8 RT performs in the real world. iPad performance is already a known quantity.
Android doesn't have any binaries, just Dalvik bytecode.
This is just plain wrong. A lot of Android applications, especially games, contain some native (non-Dalvik) executable code.
It's too bad this happened, but perhaps it will convince some people to simply not use Facebook. Facebook's habit of raping users' privacy shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who uses a computer - they've done it many times, and it's been big news.
Facebook is evil to the core. They've had countless "oops, I did it again" moments. Zuckerberg himself considers Facebook users idiots for trusting him. They raped investors with their IPO. They continue to "oops" and it has very serious consequences on a lot of people's lives.
Nobody should be using Facebook.
Nobody.
They never pass the joint around
Ha, like any other physicists are any more sane!
Current popular thinking among physicists is that the universe itself does not know the exact location and momentum of fundamental matter.
The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics tells us that the universe has a true random component. No, not pseudo-random. True random.
The many-words interpretation of quantum mechanics tells us there are obscene numbers of universes that exist, because the universe creates perfect copies of itself every time a quantum decision is made, except for the quantum decision itself being different in each copy. And those universes split, and those do, and those do...
Various tests tell us photons are waves. No, particles. No, both! And electrons too! And more!
Go read up on quantum entanglement if you have not yet believed in enough impossible things before breakfast yet.
Chuckle at the simulation argument all you want, but it's just as sane and likely as these other crazy, wild things. No, scratch that. The simulation argument is far more sane.
Physicists aren't smoking dope...they're all tripping on LSD!
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
