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Can't we already use the debugger to figure out which reference is null?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, but if you hit something at runtime, any logging you do won't tell you much information.
Not the best code in the world, but we've all written var x = obj.Method().Property.SubProperty;
Logging that exception won't tell you much beyond the line where it was thrown. Hopefully these changes will tell you (e.g. for logging purposes) that "Property" was null.
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In a paper published as the cover story in Nature on August 4, researchers introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module. Programmable ions? I used to love that band!
Before they sold out to Big Quantum, that is
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The threat of ransomware is becoming widespread among corporations, with almost half of U.S. businesses suffering an attack from the nasty form of malware recently, according to a new survey. sEnd 3 uNMarkEd bi7C01N 70 rEad 7h1s 8lur8
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Spaceflight venture Moon Express wants to be the first private company ever to land on the Moon in 2017 — and now the company has been granted approval by the United States government to launch to the lunar surface. "Not because it is easy, but because it is hard"
(slightly paraphrased there as they're not doing 'the other things')
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Approach exploits how HTTPS responses are delivered over transmission control protocol. Another day, another attempt plot to suck the joy out of life
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Contrary to what you've been told, frequent changes can be counterproductive. If 123456 was good enough for Grandma, it's good enough for me
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Quote: By studying the data, the researchers identified common techniques account holders used when they were required to change passwords. ...
"The UNC researchers said if people have to change their passwords every 90 days, they tend to use a pattern and they do what we call a transformation," Cranor explained. "They take their old passwords, they change it in some small way, and they come up with a new password."
So true. Everyone I know does this and it's the same for the 100's of websites people use.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Seriously, everyone does it. so true and so bad.
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It's also been found that writing down your passwords is more secure since you tend to create more complicated passwords. (Since I started using passpack.com years ago, my passwords have definitely gotten more complicated.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: passpack.com
looks interesting
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I just write them down on a piece of paper like everyone else at work and put it under my keyboard. No one will ever think to look there.
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Google wants every mobile website to move incredibly fast — and play by its rules. Remember when we had that standard HTML? Yeah, good times.
Yes, I am imagining a time where there was "standard HTML". Right after I saw that unicorn kitten.
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I first read that as "Google's speedy mobile phishing tool..."
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Researchers discover that ultrasonic vibrations reduce friction on flat screens by causing the fingertip to bounce on pockets of trapped air. Can it do anything about greasy fingerprints?
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"Discover"? - what exactly were they doing when they chanced on this discovery?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: by causing the fingertip to bounce on pockets of trapped air.
Finger-hockey, anyone? 
Marc
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If my future phone starts to tickle my finger while I swipe it gently, I'll throw it right out again.
//Without mobile phone since 2007 - Born in 1992 - You can imagine how much more of an outcast that made me 
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What if the problem isn’t where where looking, though, but when? "Alone, alone with a sky of romance above "
To varying definitions of "best"
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That won't be true. I'm here hung up with Bob. 
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IMHO it is how we are looking.
It strikes me that point-to-point communications are far more efficient than broadcast and therefore any advanced civilisation would use some form of point-to-point communication to do their far-talking. Therefore not radio waves and probably not something we'll be able to eavesdrop in on (or even notice given our technology).
Any such aliens would in turn only be on the look out for unidentifiable uses of their type of communications and wouldn't consider the (as near as random as makes no difference) emissions from our little blue dot to be of interest.
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We should send XML into outer space. Also make sure it's compatible with IE6. It will most likely increase our chances of finding anything
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That would prove that there is no intelligent life on Earth!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I thought we had proven that a million times by now 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And if you allow aliens not be made of water and needing of oxygen, then the probability of life somewhere sometimes is a gazillion times bigger
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