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Comment · 8 years ago
Exactly. What would happen if Turkey kills Gülen with a drone strike in the US? Or China kills Falun Gong followers with drones in the US? I'm rather sure US would not follow their own line on drone strikes.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's always good when you write the rules.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
From my experience in 20 years of Java, it prevents the reusage of local vars, which mostly is wrong.

   Person p = ....
   p = doSomething(p)
   ...
   p = doSomethingElse(p)
is hard to reason about when it should be

   Person p = ....
   ... lots of code
   Person updated = doSomething(p) 
   ... lots of code
   doSomethingElse(updated)
Which is easier to read and understand. So you might have had bugs that would have been prevented with final, but you didn't attribute to final.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sad var/val (or var/let) didn't make it.

All good Java developers I know make all local variables final to force better code.

Comment · 8 years ago
... this would make from some creepy film scene - someone shouting for help and the car only watching.
Comment · 8 years ago
With excel locking, os x trashes, etc.? What good configuration guide would you suggest for a mixed Linux, OS X and Windows environment with MS Office?

This magic only solves have the problems

    fruit:resource = xattr
    fruit:metadata = netatalk
    fruit:locking = none
    fruit:encoding = private
    delete veto files = yes
    veto files = /.snapshot/.windows/.mac/.TemporaryItems/.DS_Store
Comment · 8 years ago
What happens when a self driving car in the future from a service is driving empty back to some parking? And hits someone? Does it call ambulance or police?
Comment · 8 years ago
To me samba has just too much magic, especially when mixing unix, OSX and windows clients.

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