Yes, I'm pretty sure this is why Object.clone() exists in Java, and I'm pretty sure there's a .NET equivalent.
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RE: .net parameters
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RE: Security Scan
Well, if no one can view your web application, then it's completely secure, right?
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RE: Security Scan
Disable HTTPS and inform them that the problem has been solved.
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RE: On today's episode of "Stupid Use Of Glass"...
@blakeyrat said:
If the developers of NetBeans didn't get such an easy and basic detail right, how many other things do you think they got wrong? If they didn't even give the slightest FUCK to make sure the most basic thing worked, how little of a fuck was given over the rest of the product? Seriously, it's just shameful. Again: someone looked at this product, this product that can't even draw a font correctly, and said: "hey this looks good, let's ship it."
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RE: Another of IBM great ideas!
If you work in a company like this you're encouraged to file as many patents as possible for any possible idea. And they'll make it clear to you that you're never going to be promoted beyond a certain level if you haven't accumulated a certain number of patents filed (think 10, 20, 50 or even 100+ patents).
It's probably a small group of 2 or 3 people who made a writeup, submitted it to a lawyer, the lawyer decided it was novel enough to get through the patent office, then a review board looked it over and found no obvious flaws or prior art that would sink it, then the same laywer did the grunt work to submit the filing. The engineers, lawyers, and executives are all happy because their number of patents submitted went up for the year.
The only real answer is to abolish software patents and come up with some kind of alternative within the trade to protect small guys with new ideas over the short term -- I don't know what that is. But since that isn't going to happen, dumb software patents are going to go on for another 20 years or more and it's barely worth noticing.
Not that this patent is automatically terrible, it sounds like something I might come up with a use for while I'm in the shower or something.
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RE: The mark of the geek
@Renan said:
Sounds like you've covered all your possibilities.So I've been thinking about getting a tatoo to celebrate it. Something that has to do with the profession I chose to earn my bread. I've been thinking about it, but most things that come to mind may either:
- become obsolete in five to ten years (and if I'm to ink myself, I'd like for it to be timeless).
- rub people the wrong way. I think tatooing a bar code on my right hand would cause some impression on every other religious crackpot around. Specially if I get another bar code on my forehead to match.
- be so cryptical to layspeople, they would keep asking what it is and I would have to explain it every time ("you see, 10 is only ten in base ten. In base two 10 is two. So that's why there are 10 kinds of people...")
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RE: Skyrim is weird and confusing?
I read this trainwreck of a thread before I bought the game. Now I've been playing it for a while and I think I'm about halfway through the main quest.
There are SO many strong female characters in this game -- royalty, guard commanders, warriors, merchants, wizards, etc. By and large those female characters who have authority are obeyed without question and no one ever gives them shit. Maybe there's a few lewd comments in books and throwaway dialogue from male characters, but I've hardly noticed.
Of course, for my character, all problems are eventually solved by repeated application of warhammer.
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RE: Posting on the Something Awful Forums Costs $9.95???
Hack into the forum and steal passwords, problem solved.
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RE: Out-of-the-box workflow at it's best
So you can't deal with a little boolean logic in an if test? Sigh...and I bet you call yourself a programmer...