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Are you sure you don't mean COBOL? Fortran is still evolving (albeit even more slowly than Java) and still used for new projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_2015

This does not necessarily conflict with the diminishing returns theory. If you are 4x as rich as your neighbours, you will probably want to move to a more affluent area. At which p…

And pseudo-entrepreneurs (who may be real coders)

Typical Model-D kafkatrap [1] :-) [1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122

Probably not in this case. Windows' RNG does not block when it runs low on entropy. AFAIK only Linux does that. And the task is a database query so probably does not use the RNG. B…

Another way to look at it: Of the 9 most populous countries in the world, the US is the only one with any names on that list. So it could be worse. Edit: Technically wrong: There i…

Not the only way. You can interleave fields in a ByteBuffer.

You could solve that problem by reading your politician's blog (and donating of course) then voting the way they recommend on each issue.

It has always seemed strange to me that some people find hostile weather sounds calming - Wind, heavy rain, thunder... those can all potentially damage the building you are in. Fir…

Thanks. I find some ambient sounds (especially birds & waves) help me focus on work. (Instead of rain I use pink noise from another site)

The language is better, but the backend and ecosystem are not.

It comes with the territory, I'm afraid. Some users will try something once, find a bug or limitation, decide the platform sucks and never touch it again (and if the platform is wo…

Justified, because they are very amusing to watch.

> How the hell does this lead to stereotyping an entire race? It does not. It is just an anecdote, from three people I know, who were required to memorize stuff, and found their co…

They already did that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8249792.stm

> I have friends with computing science degree yet they cannot code or have shipped software. So do I, but CS degrees are not about memorization. At least not in North America or E…

Please don't joke about censoring political parties' websites. That is one of the biggest dangers of systems like this after all.

> My favorite technical interview question is to ask the candidate about the worst bug they ever wrote. Are you sure you are getting honest answers? Some candidates may be thinking…

I don't know whether a nearly-empty drive is better or worse than average. But the point is, you had a 1000-block file full of secret data and when you do > secrets.txt the file is…

> Later I found out that elance has a loophole where buyers who disputed or cancelled projects are not able to leave feedback. The mistake many clients make is to request "cancella…

More likely they will never know that she clicked it

No, I mean it will store the new random data in different blocks, thus not overwriting the old blocks.

Yes. It will truncate the file first, then allocate new blocks for the new random data, likely leaving the old blocks lying around. You can avoid this with the 'conv=notrunc' optio…

I imagine it would be hard to implement efficiently in Java.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy