2012 August
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mfw someone asks me for programming help over facebook chat
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Sell one of the ipads = hundreds of apps
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if you had a time machine, would you use it to travel to the past, knowing full well your actions might change the present?
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I'm slightly irritated by some people's self-righteousness on FB especially when they share things about "how to fix the Phliippines" but do nothing of the kind...
HOW TO FIX THE PHILIPPINES
(1) Don't jaywalk. Find the nearest pedestrian crossing or overpass.
(2) Pay your taxes on time and in full REGARDLESS of whether it will go to crooks because if you don't pay your taxes you are a crook. BTW, this is why you should have registered and voted.
(3) Donate to the charity of your choice, or even better volunteer and lead projects.
(4) Don't knowingly plagiarize anything yourself. Be sure to mention you heard about it from a friend or saw it on the internet.
(5) When discussing sensitive issues such as politics or religion, respect the other person's view point and disagree with them intelligently.
(6) Never be rude to people who are not "important". Everyone is important to someone.
(7) Be grateful we live in a country where we have civil liberties, we do not cane our children in public, we have never had a major famine, and women have a right to education and to vote.
(8) Never complain about the Philippines without doing something about it.
(9) Be a good ambassador for the country, whether at home or abroad. Acknowledge that our country has problems but don't ever tell them it's hopeless or how much you hate it or how glad you are that you left. If that's the way you feel, please feel free to call yourself an American. A Filipino is someone who cares about the Philippines. (10) Make a difference by being the difference. In the end, it's all up to us. We can't count on "them" to make a better country. We can only count on each other.
If you don't actually practice what you preach or what you post, then please spare me your beautiful tumblr photo or infographic. Put up or shut up.
/end polemic
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Need to stop reading work-related emails at home. I get sad when there's a bug report from the client =/
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@czarles sa up, not sa technohub
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Wow, Barack Obama does an IAmA on Reddit...and breaks it
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@alvinjtang baka gusto mo nito: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Band_Blitz, exportable to RB3 lahat ng tracks. Also, may free Borderlands tayo next week!
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@Woerlan Sadly, there are a lot of people who view that as truth
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Plagiarism may not be a crime in the Philippines, but neither is "cyber-bullying". Just because it isn't illegal doesn't make it right.
People need to stop taking Sotto seriously. Don't expect him to engage you with rational discourse despite being a Senator. He is who he is.
Plagiarism is an intellectual/academic issue, not appreciated by the masses - that's his audience, not any of us on Twitter or Facebook.
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I'm being asked to assess whether we can safely upgrade the java version on one of our production-deployed webapps. The codebase is fairly large and we want to avoid having to regression test everything (no automated tests sadly), but we've already encountered at least one problem during some manual testing (XmlStringReader.getLocalName now throws an IllegalStateExeption when it just used to return null) and higher-ups are pretty nervous about the upgrade.
The current suggested approach is to do a source compare of the JDK sources for each version and assess those changes to see which ones might have impact, but it seems there's a lot of changes to go through (and as mentioned the codebase is kinda large). Is it safe and easier to just review the java version changes for each version? Or is there an easier way to conduct this assessment?
Edit: I forgot to mention the version upgrade being considered is a minor version upgrade, i.e. 1.6.10 to 1.6.33
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I have this random daydream/fantasy where a bear gets loose and goes wild somewhere in town and I save a bunch of people by defeating it in single unarmed combat.
So yeah, this thread is relevant to my interests.
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What qualities do really bad programmers share? http://qr.ae/8UW38
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That feel when you're able to plug in a usb device on the first try
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Celebrate Street Fighter's 25th anniversary by using a Street Fighter animated gif as your twitter avatar! http://www.capcom-unity.com/xantista/go/gallery/view/3559513?pref_tab=photos&no_redir=1
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TIL your twitter avatar can be an animated gif. This changes everything!
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Woah there's a Rurouni Kenshin reboot already being serialized!
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@wrongwaygoback does landing mean simply casting it? Or getting to untap with it?
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No idea if All New X-Men is going to be any good, but I really like the currently available preview cover.
(Click photos to view full-size)
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Nothing like a walk through the rain to start off the day
