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Kent Sharkey wrote: 'How do you make money doing this? The answer is simple: Volume private data and personal publicity
FTFY
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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After months of work, a major milestone has been reached for Java’s JDK repository, which now builds warning-free – that’s a whopping several thousand warnings being taken care of. /golfclap
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Kent Sharkey wrote: hat’s a whopping several thousand warnings being taken care of.
Which, if the developers had taken care of them as they happened, it wouldn't be something to write home about. But noooo....now it's like some sort of "ooh, look at how awesome we are" instead of "you dumb f***s, you should have fixed these in the first place."
And:
the clearing of this technical debt will now eliminate the possibility of bugs hiding inside the flagged code.
Yeah. You know what happens when you touch thousands of places in the code? You introduce bugs.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Which, if the developers had taken care of them as they happened, it wouldn't be something to write home about.
Thank you. That was the feeling I had while I read this, but I couldn't put into words as fine as yours. 
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: You introduce bugs
Not exactly...Every given peace of code has its built-in bugs waiting to come forward...All you do is smuggle them out... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"No warning since day one" would be a lot to write home about IMO.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yeah. You know what happens when you touch thousands of places in the code? You introduce bugs.
Maybe the number of failing unit tests stayed the same so they figured they didn't.
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manchanx wrote: the number of failing unit tests stayed the same
That's the greatest definition of clean code programming I've read upto now.
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Marc Clifton wrote: the clearing of this technical debt will now eliminate the possibility of bugs hiding inside the flagged code.
And we all know that there's never a bug in code which compiles without warnings, ever. 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There's only one warning I haven't been able to resolve in my life...
In VB.NET I had to overwrite a function, so I needed to use Shadows or whatever. It wasn't really allowed because the base class wasn't set up that way. It was a third party library and this was their solution for my problem, so what could I do? In the end I simply edited some config and the warning went away. I believe I looked at C# too, which DID allow it... I still have trouble sleeping at night! 
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Except the warnings generally issued to never allow a Java plug-in (or Flash) to run in your browser, of course.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Larry Ellison promised to grow Sun products. Let's look at how well he kept those promises. "Sunrise, sunset"
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Last spring, the idea of 'Windows 365' popped up several times and the logic behind it was that Microsoft would soon offer a subscription based Windows service. "Each and every day of the year"
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Ru-Ro
Hey wait a minute.
Our windows already IS 365. 24/7 too btw
Tryin to pull the wool over the sheepies eye hu.
No way Jose!
My C: drive! stay away from it!
>
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What about leap years? Is it going to be available on day 366? When I think about it, marketing could make use of it: "Subscribe to Windows 365 today and get one day for free every leap year." Not too far fetched from most of their ideas nowadays.
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Let say we use a specific version of Windows for 5 years. It cost about $120 to purchase and some times it even cheaper with upgrade price...
Add to that that most people buy OS with the computer where the $15 price (doubled of course) is part of the final payment (yes Microsoft charge $15 or less for OEM)...
So. How much Microsoft will ask for a yearly submission?
I sounds me like the deal of socks I saw a few weeks before - 1 for $2 5 for $12...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A few months ago, we scooped that Bing was going to start open-sourcing some of its technologies and today they company has started to act upon these plans. Very, very, very small
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Are they trying to demoralize competitors or to distract them with incontrollable laughters?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away there was a widely used MFC library which had a few classes with methods that compared "this" pointer to null. It's always the ones you don't check that are pointing at null
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I really do not regret leaving C++ for C#. In my youth, it was a great relationship, lots of unsafe pointers, the occasional multiple inheritance fling, and the perhaps experimentation with various objects as we cast about for our identity...
But nowadays, I have come to appreciate the finer points of a more mature relationship, one that is (ironically) free of the garbage collecting from the past, providing a more functional (and less hormonally imperative) foundation on which to build a lasting, monogamous, union.
Marc
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I think I agree with you...  ...erm, we are talking about programming, right?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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While I remember those days, C++ has actually improved in many ways, unfortunately growing in complexity. Nowadays, resource management is amongst the best of any language if you choose to use it. And of course references have always been there to avoid many of the causes of pointer errors (you have to subvert the type system to get a null reference, something C# could learn from).
I gladly use C++ in my own projects, but for the day job I'm glad to use C#. I'm less concerned with wringing the best performance there, quite appropriately as its mostly CRUD-style operations with a bit of business logic and MVVM. In my spare time I write stuff like parser generators, which really benefit from the explicit resource management available in C++.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google’s hiring chief says he doesn’t give much credit to college degrees in the hiring process. So it should come as no surprise that other Google executives also regard staples of traditional business school training at the nation’s elite colleges as downright “stupid.” "We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership."
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Step by step, Microsoft is working to make its hybrid cloud offerings more attractive. With a new set of “how-to” documentation, it intends to inspire more application development and experimentation with different IT workloads. So, you weren't testing before? Is that what you're trying to tell us?
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