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Manager: "Why isn't the project done yet? Why are you still coding?" macromaniac: "Patience, I'm still working on salad..."

From the article: > This article is for computer engineers who would like to have a high-level understanding of how the dual parity calculation works, without diving into all of th…

Oh come now, that's just an extra safety net. Don't take IDEA local history as a replacement to version control, rather a supplement.

Without actually saying the words, this post makes a good introduction to the [expression problem][0], trading the ease of adding types for the ease of adding behaviors. [TINSTAAFL…

In order to use variables from the scope that the anonymous function came from, you have to explicitly import them into the anonymous function with the use[1] block: public functio…

There's also some vmoptions tweaking you can do to increase performance some more.

> "...heating water and converting it to coffee" Spot on! What, oh what, would I ever do without my Keurig machine!!!

Also, "as of" reporting is a built-in feature requiring no additional configuration.

Add a commit for yesterday (I just picked whatever arbitrary time): git commit -a -m "Insightful Commit Note" --date "2013-09-25 08:24:32" Might also be worth mentioning the [diffe…

The second coming of Java the platform (the JVM), at any rate.

Now I'm confused - I thought Benji Smith wrote this?

This! A thousand times, this!

According to Wikipedia: Exile means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country), while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened wit…

As long as you can still disable JS via about:config or NoScript, this is hardly worrisome.

Oh, I wasn't aware that ClojureCLR was still being maintained. All I knew was the Hickey was no longer maintaining it. Thanks for clarifying!

> Inference : ClojureCLR seems to be dead :( For at least a few years now. I remember watching a Hickey talk where I think I recall him saying it was even before 2011, but the exac…

Yes, as for the Balkans, some would argue that Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are all just dialects of the same basic language.

> I'd love to see some statistics on what kind of effect a half hour per employee per month does for overall happiness and employee retention. I would too, and here's some anecdata…

All that's left when you're done with the first 90% of development is the other 90%[1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

Half serious, half tongue-in-cheek, but he's apparently had this idea since at least Iron Man 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0

You're right, it isn't. This post[1] from JetBrains helped clear the situation up for me. [1]: http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-t...

Even the community edition[1] supports android development. Just point IntelliJ at your android sdk installation folder, and you're off to the races! [1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/…

Two names come to mind: Irony[1], and Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?[2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3...…

Is this any different from how Facebook Credits work(ed)?

Between the TSA groping you at the terminal and now the scary possibility of ne'er do wells initiating shenanigans from their smartphones in mid-air, it's enough to make me never w…