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The refactoring tools in IntelliJ make it possible to catch a lot of things that would be very difficult to do with emacs of vim. For example, I know a certain utility method exist…

Do you think that 100 years from now, anyone other than programming language researchers will have heard of any programming language used today?

"I don't want to learn how to use an IDE" is the same argument as "I don't want to learn how to use vi". There are a lot of reasons to hate Java...I don't want to use a bloated IDE…

You realize that any modern language is nothing more than an abstraction layer to automatically generate code in a lower level language right? The only difference here is that if y…

Java 8 is still probably a minimum of a year or 2 off. After that, it will go through another year or two of testing before any big corporation will dare even bother touching it. A…

The examples they give seem to be pretty much standard functionality of the Guava Collections2 class. With Guava quickly becoming one of those standard libraries that just gets aut…

No Java devs actually type any of that. Java IDE's are very good at generating this sort of code...for this very reason. No one would still be using Java if they actually had to re…

Where exactly are you moving your mouse that you need to take your eyes off the screen in order to find it? Anyway, point & click scenarios can be argued. Click and drag scenarios …

Has it been hastened considerably? It has been 3 years now since the controversy began...or centuries in internet time.

I had just assumed that Google+ would essentially encompass everything in Google that requires a google account to use. Google search, google shopping, and similar services that do…

Ripples looks like an absolutely incredible way to discover the reach of social media in general. I have a feeling "ripple graphs" are going to be in a ton of marketing geeks power…

Decades ago shredders weren't nearly as good as they are now either. It isn't a static problem that will remain solved.

>Or, since they're also advancing a political message of 'fear', maybe it will be terrorism? I think you're really reaching there. Things are bad, but lets not kid ourselves from p…

Generally any blog written a day after the spec released is going to be pretty superficial. It isn't like they have time to be able to construct any real criticisms. Personally, if…

Only the more expensive models had 3G. I had thought that I would use the 3G service, but I think I used it once during the first week I bought it to try it out. It really is almos…

Dressing differently is not necessarily dressing worse. Personally, when I see someone that obviously spent an extra 30-60 minutes getting ready in the morning to make themselves a…

Why are users misinformed? Because facebook has only crept more outside the nice boundaries of its own website. There is a line somewhere in between facebook knowing only what I ex…

There's often cases of the data literally being measured in tera or peta bytes. Releasing the raw data isn't always feasible.

There were plenty of "it is a good decision" claims in Apple's case as well.

The google ecosystem is headed the same way. Chrome + Android + Amazon MP3 gives me all that stuff anywhere I log in (including windows / mac / linux workstations). I assume Google…

For me there was an issue with the fact that most of my work apps aren't standard and didn't cooperate with the hijacked toolbar. If I'm going to use a distro that prides itself on…

Check out Tweetdeck. It does pretty much exactly what you're looking for with FB and Twitter (and whatever other networks you use). G+ just hasn't opened up an API yet for anyone t…

Pretty much the same here. The primary issue at hand for me is the lack of 3rd party support. Twitter and facebook are boring to me by themselves, but when I can look at them both …

I think your logic is somewhat off, as you are considering playstation 1,2,3 to be different, while iPhone 1,2,3,4 are in the same bucket. Also consoles are generally a one per hou…

I'm not sure what the title is supposed to mean. FTA "The solution is simple, of course: we just have to add a real software patent section to Title 35. " I guess he's trying to sa…