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Sounds like a good job for AI. I do fear that the future will involve deploying AI do deal with the mountain of slop produced by other AI's.

There is no requirement in the Java language to use getters and setters.

Or when IBM renamed everything Websphere.

I have not had much experience with DB2, but given that the relational data model and normalization was invented at IBM (Codd) and IBM's implemenation of those concepts was DB2, DB…

Maybe it’s because you are really a computer programmer. Computer programmer employment is expected to decline by 6%.

My initial reation was 'What is a CMS'? Naming your company or an initialism and never saying anywhere in the product description what the initials mean is not welcoming. Now I kno…

You don't have to tip an Uber or Lyft driver either.

I think more effort should have been made to live with 65,536 characters. My understanding is that codepoints beyond 65,536 are only used for languages that are no longer in use, a…

This article is nearly 15 years old (2013). According to center on budget and policy priorities, the number of SSDI beneficiaries has fallen from is peak in 2014. So this article w…

Why would anyone buy their game engine when it is available for free? Seems like a solution for a problem that doesn't/won't exist.

Can a systems programming lanugage use garbage collection? I don't think so.

Seems to me that if Congress would prefer that any disputes arising from the implementation of their laws be handled by the admistrative agency charged with enforcing it, all they …

I found 'A Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout to be useful. It contains alot of solid easy to understand advice with many examples.

I think whats more harmful than unit tests are code coverage metrics for unit tests that devs feel compelled or are required to achieve. The easiest way to achieve code coverage go…

You need to spend $16,666 just to cover the $500 annual fee. That’s a lot for many people especially when many low end retailers don’t accept AmEx. As already state rewards cards a…

They can but they generally won’t. Use of the chip on the card shifts fraud liability from merchant to issuer. Burner card numbers are for card not present transactions.

NY state has plenty of room for onshore wind, just not in the places where most of the people are.

Is it really that much different? You still need to handle a Left value, and a lot like handling an exception.

That’s not true. Java has 2 types of exceptions checked and unchecked. Checked exceptions are what this thread has been calling errors, and unchecked exceptions are what this threa…

Here is an example. Go let’s structs be passed by value or by reference. The programmer needs to decide, and that adds complexity that is largely irrelevant for modeling complex bu…

Not sure what you mean by "the database holds locks for the minimum time needed." Locks are always held until the transaction commits.

In the Lost Updates section, a more straight forward solution is to use the FOR UPDATE clause in the first select statement. This locks the record and prevents concurrent updates.

Is this really a Google OAuth issue, or more failure my many service providers to properly verify the OAuth token assertions before allowing access? Seems to me the latter.

I found a chestnut tree of moderate size on my property this year, and for time thought it might be an American Chestnut. Alas I eventually concluded that it was a Chineese Chesnut…

Not at the scale involved here.