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It’s not. The inner loop operates only from i+1 to n in exchange sort and the resulting swaps are very different.

Ok, so it’s more of a legal framework than a technological one.

How do you grant a company access to your data but prevent them from storing it? And how does it apply to data a company generates about me? For example, if I listen to songs on Sp…

If you plan to be a professional software engineer, then I recommend just paying for the best tools. The price of one hour of an engineer's salary (give or take) can pay for the en…

I started learning Java in 1996 and it was a real revelation back then. Coming from very platform-specific C, everything felt comparatively easy. And Javadocs were amazing. Just a …

It's long past time to retire Lena as the canonical test image in CG.

> A frozen language means that either those modifications are harder I don't agree that it's harder. What is definitely harder is not being able to ship bug-fixes or modifications …

While I submitted this, I would like to voice my opinion that I am against "var" in Java. People may ask, "Why should I have to enter in the type if the compiler can infer it for m…

I would argue that the opposite of a bloom filter doesn't really exist, at least not in a satisfying way. A bloom filter's size is dependent only on the desired false positive rate…

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't want Java to move forward faster. I don't really want it to move forward much at all unless there is a huge, tangible benefit from the…

Not sure how everybody else feels about it, but I find that optional typing is the enemy of readable code.

As a long-time Java developer, I really hope they won't implement JEP 286. I think type inference by the compiler is a bad idea, as it results in less readable code, more bugs, and…

A few years ago I wrote a Minesweeper clone in Google Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1367o4BYYNynmMan_1I5x...

Scala appeals to those who love programming languages. Java and a few other languages appeal to those who love making software, something that Scala is terrible at.

Some of the worst data presentation offenses are being committed in this talk, including graphs with misleading axes, trend lines derived from too few data points, and no acknowled…

> (FWIW, I do know JS) Assumption confirmed!

(Author here) The apps are just really thin native WebView/UIWebView layers, included in the source. No frameworks were used.

"Oliphant Immortal" from Gurk III: http://pix.pe?Q_____A4_YEAHDDYcDbYacDbA4_H_______wGuAA_H4__H...

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