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Not entirely accurate (IANALTINLA also). It comes down to the commonly confused distinction between the burden of proof and the standard of proof. "Proof beyond reasonable doubt" i…

To paraphrase the argument: "If you steal more money than you can possibly spend, giving the rest away makes everything OK."

As a long-time Java developer, I absolutely abhor the assumption that everything can be safely subclassed and overridden unless it is explicitly declared as final. Implementation i…

Findbugs, the popular Java tool I linked to in another comment, explains the bug like this: "A random value from 0 to 1 is being coerced to the integer value 0. You probably want t…

I believe this is the tool you are looking for. http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#RV_01_T...

I work there. Half the office wants one of those tshirts.

NSW has been suffering for the last decade from a totally clueless government, and an opposition totally owned by its fringe right-wing. Labor couldn't govern their way out of a pa…

I don't think Oracle particularly cares about the Java brand. The Java brand was important to Sun because in recent years its value had eclipsed the value of the Sun brand, to the …

I could think of many salient differences between hammering nails and programming in C, but the simplest one is: Its impossible to do any kind of real carpentry job to completion u…

I think you're being a trifle naïve. Verizon have consistently used the "we're blocking illegal filesharing" line as justification for throttling BitTorrent traffic. Under the Goog…

Speak for yourself. Women are a significant minority in software development. This in itself means that a woman's experience of the field I work in every day must be different to m…

One advantage of UTF-16 is that unlike UTF-8, very few characters you encounter in Real Life invoke surrogate pairs. So for the cost of a one-bit flag per string you can assume two…

"Kurzweil's defense of "computers commonly embedded in clothing and jewelry" as applying to iPod Nanos embedded in pockets is a bit of a stretch, but in practicality not far at all…

I sit corrected. :)

While your analysis of why we're doing the $10 deal is spot on, we only introduced it a couple of months ago so any benefit we might see is still in the future. Previously the chea…

I work at Atlassian and I kind of assume it's us, partly because everyone else around the Internet seems to think he's talking about us, but mostly because the Fogbugz 7 manifesto …

The spec seems to assume you are using XHTML. Maybe it should make it clear that in HTML4 pages the self-closing tag syntax is not required?