i have one that's great for tagging/organizing photos -- Tidepool <http://storymill.com/tidepool/>. i use it for organizing by Who/What/Where/When and...
What exit code is returned to the OS when a JVM exits because of an uncaught exception? Where is this documented? -- Esse quam videri (to be rather than to...
Apparently, there are reasons to restart a java application once in a 'while' http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#nanoTime() This...
... I know from experience and casual observation that an uncaught, runtime exception produces an exit code of 1 in linux. No idea is this is consistent across...
Thanks everybody for the responses. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought this was a bit out of line. I didn't mean to make it sound like he's...
What do you think of a method with a NPATH Complexity metric of 1,074,135,088? Some days I can't wait to retire. -- Esse quam videri (to be rather than to...
I was going to say the same. But I figured someone would tell me to just go google it, which I would have then felt obligated to do rather than send the...
It's always amazed me that management is the only job that people can enter with absolutely no training, especially in resisting the ego-expanding effect of...
i would question the calculation... or maybe there is a sh!tload of bit twiddling case statements with sub case statements and a hit for each possibility? ...
if npath computes based on array size, that is stupid. it should just be the possible number of paths... The cyclomatic complexity of this method is 5 the...
... It doesn't. ... It does. ... The method I first posted about has a CC of 36. ... That sure worked here. It is crappy code. The author apparently never...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A customer cares only about the outcome. Ugly that meets the customers expectations is better than the most elegant code...
Forgot this one: "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." --Sam Brown Dont get me wrong, a good solution meets customer...
not sure what you mean... some things are just ugly. but what if the crappy code produces forever slower enhancements, buggy code, breakage all over the place....
... 30 properly nested if statements could get you there though I must admit I've never seen a CC number of this magnitude and I've measured some pretty...
Jon, My point was that the first priority should be to meet the customer's expectations. If it does not do that, it doesn't matter if its good code or not. My...
... Just to chime in because I'm suffering computer usage withdrawal and baby-over-exposure: I've seen this conversation/debate carried out, and participated ...
... tomorrow. precisely... short-term foolishness. leads to Y2K expenditures of $US 100B for two f-in digits. +1 brother! (despite your lack of sleep, you are...
Somewhere along the line and I think it was here this thread took a dangerous turn toward defending expedient crap. Pfui. Crap is crap. Expediency in the...
you crack me up, bob. and, you are right. to mica's defense, there are times when the customer wants chicken shit. and it is our duty to provide it as long as...
... Well, yeah, the code has to work. But in this case he wrote a class with 13 String fields & 13 getters, 13 setters. And then 26 "if" statements using the...
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