Also what is the deal with all Indians driving champaign or silver colored Corollas or Camry. They also all have a box of tissues in their back window.
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They love silver as well. They even eat it. I had an indian contractor who brought in ... I guess maybe like a traditional Indian cookie and it had like a very thin silver paste ontop of it. Strangest thing I've ever had. Something about how they believe silver is good for the digestive tract.
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I just found a box of 100 galaxy control systems hid cards in the trash at the office, they're new but programmed to our old system. Are they worth anything?
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Randomly, in the middle of tracking down a bug, I see references to a global constant named DOT. What is it? Take a guess.
It's: "."
Yes it's a period. Or a dot. The actual call to it is "<classname>.DOT". It would have taken less time to actually write out "." when necessary.
I think I found my first coding pet peeve.
I mean, seriously... what the fuck?
Someone please tell me this is best practice so I can at least understand why it was done.
It's: "."
Yes it's a period. Or a dot. The actual call to it is "<classname>.DOT". It would have taken less time to actually write out "." when necessary.
I think I found my first coding pet peeve.
I mean, seriously... what the fuck?
Someone please tell me this is best practice so I can at least understand why it was done.
I've recently been using Titan as a graph-based database and search engine (well, Elastic does that) and the API for Java is like a Scala backend or something so it isn't uncommon for method names to just be underscores. It is bizzare.
Like that is how you launch a MapReduce against an HDFS file
Like that is how you launch a MapReduce against an HDFS file
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So to be clear without the global macro the code would be "YourClass..()"? If that's the case, then the DOT makes it a lot more clear that you're calling a function. I don't do a lot of coding in Java, so I have no idea why you would have a call that looks like that in the first place.
moontayle
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I cannot mentally fathom the existence of this constant. With Android programming if you need something to have Application level context, you basically create a class that extends Application and throw it in there (more to it than that, but that's the gist). Whoever put together this app decide that "." needed to be a global constant. So they can call Application.DOT when they need a fucking dot. Instead of, you know, just putting a dot. And it's actually used. It's not like this is a random troll constant or a method like "isagoat()".
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