jwenting

good money in being an Oracle DBA... Or better yet and Oracle consultant :)

I wasn't in the game to begin with, so can't possibly have lost it.

* 10 open file * 20 start loop * 30 read line * 40 if end of file goto 100 * 50 parse line * 60 goto 30 * 100 end loop

In the beginning there was Niklaus Wirth, the allfather. He created Pascal as a language to teach structured programming to his students. Then came along Frank Borland (or so the legend goes, Frank doesn't actually exist) who commercialised the language into its most successful version ever, Turbo Pascal. Then came …

to get path separators in an operating system independent fashion, use System.getProperty("file.separator"). Of course that does not guarantee your directory will be correct, as you're hardcoding a drive name there which Linux (or Mac, or pretty much anything except Windows) doesn't understand.

you're still trying to get that job at a high profile company, despite being turned down time and time again, and people telling you to start looking for some lower hanging fruit? You're just going to get more rejections that way. There's a reason Amazon and others turned you down, …

> Yeah, POTUS is essentially a slightly right of center politician but is played up by both sides as a far left activist he is in fact the stereotypical far left radical. What he does, how he acts, is no different from how people like Brezhnev, Jaruselski, Mao, Mugabe, Chavez, …

sheesh, still at it trying to land that job at a high profile company after being supposedly already rejected by all of them?

my current TV is less than 5 years old, I hope it will last at least another 10-15. At that time I'll see what's current mid range technology and whether that's worth the investment for the half hour or so a day I use the darn thing.

IMO there's no such thing as "unacceptably rich". The whole idea that people should be kept poor (or at least all within a specific and small margin of the poorest members of society) is a major factor in getting us into the economic crisis we are in and making it …

1. Most any job will start there. It's a good place to learn, and a place you can start being effective despite knowing next to nothing (and no, you'd not be expected to know anything in an entry level development job either, you'd be set to testing, fixing bugs, analysing …

we're not here to do your homework for you, kid. And if you'd paid attention in class you should easily be able to do all that yourself.

nah, he should get himself a time machine so he can go back in time to where he has enough time to do his homework that it's no longer "urgent".

what about just looking at http://www.hibernate.org ?

www.springsource.org comes to mind. Why go further than the source for samples when they have a lot of them?

"started learning java through youtube" does not bode well for someone wanting to make a career out of software development. And no, you should not look at specialised game programming curiculi, they're far too narrow and you're almost certain not to find employment in the field, certainly not long term …

> A change was made recently so that you have to hover your mouse over the ads for a time period before this happens, so if you just move your mouse around normally you should be unaffected. if that change was made, it's not working properly, or the interval is …

> People, this is a signature spam post, look at the OP's signature. Makes it all the more ironic that he's quite right in saying that there's a lot of underqualified people "graduating" in India. And yes, we've all encountered them. And yes, they exist elsewhere as well, just (at …

wrong questions, useless answers. You use what pattern, if any, is applicable to the situation at hand. Just because some pattern is "popular" doesn't mean it's "better", let alone universally superior to everything else. I've worked on applications where the designer/lead programmer was a pattern fanatic and dedicated to using …

you could start saving up for all the books, software, and computer equipment you're going to need...

> if this kind of threads is what they need to 'advertize' their product, .... , might tell us something about the quality of said product. quality of sad products you mean? :)

so now because of some rumoured secret chip in PCs that allows the government to control your computer an operating system is not safe?

One of the founding fathers said: he who gives the government a bit of his liberty to get a bit of security will end up having neither. Which is exactly what has happened. You let it happen, you asked for it, now you have to live with it. Do not …

in other words, "I want to steal someone else's work so I can get a good grade without putting in any effort".

good luck. I hope you know what those things actually mean or you're in for a very hard time.

Remember that "experts" have by now redefined "obese" to be "not anorexic", so it's little surprise that "experts" find that almost the entire population of the planet except those living under a famine are obese. Sells a lot of dietary supplements and expensive consults with dieticians, and gives CPS an …

Think of what you're doing and you get the idea quickly enough. You delete row 0, then increase i to 1, then move to the next row (which is the old row 2). Then you delete row 1, increase i to 2, move to the next row. If you want …

without knowing the specifics, it's impossible to give any advise. And even knowing the specifics, I'd not give any legal advise as it's far too risky in putting me at risk from being implicated in anything you do acting on that advise. Intellectual property right claims like that can go …

too late anyway, if it were really urgent he's dead by now and the computers exploded into clouds of silicon and metal dust.

There is no "best". In fact there's never any universal "best" of any broad category. Just think: IF there were a universally "best" programming language, why are there still others out there that are used at all, or at least by more than a few diehard survivors with a religious …

Dropbox works for me, and doesn't have the problems some people are having with Skydrive where trying to load a file into their applications that's hosted on Skydrive causes their computers to crash (which is probably due to those applications, not Skydrive).

> Obviously you shouldn't intentionally write slow code, but fast has a price, and if an employer doesn't understand that, they're not worth working for. I've had one instance where we did intentionally have to write slow code, but that was a very special case where the code had to …

being away from home for 10-15 hours a day for work (mostly) doesn't allow me to have pets. Maybe when I retire, if I live that long...

9. we don't want to end up doing your homework and actually writing your paper, which would inevitably be the next demand you come up with.

start by scrapping ALL references to the word "Tetris" or anything that has any relation to it. The owners of the copyright are notorious for going after anyone using it, whether it's used commercially or not. And learn to divide your source into logical units, split it up into multiple …

there exist many such programs. What do you think UPS uses, FedEx, DHL, Royal Mail, most every trucking company, to generate routes? And there are many ways to solve it, usually by encoding the map into a graph and letting loose a pathfinding algorithm. Of course that's a crude approach, …

and what nobody's mentioned yet: * stay hydrated * have your eyes checked

if it's so shallow it takes only 4 days to acquire the skills to pass the exam and get a piece of paper, it's also utterly worthless.

it's one of the better surprises you can have returning from holiday. From my experience they're usually a lot nastier...

Indeed. I've had rejections for being "too nervous" which apparently according to the rejection notice made me seem "desperate". Next day I got a rejections for being "not nervous enough" which made me apparently "disinterested". I was feeling the same in both interviews, acting the same. It's a lottery, more …

start by reducing your ambitions from creating the next multi-billion dollar revenue first person shooter in your bedroom during a few weekends to creating a text based maze.' What language you implement that in is utterly irrelevant.

which one? The server that's been running for 5 years apart from the occasional power outage (yes, should get me a UPS, I know), or the spare laptop that's only booted up once in a while to update the software installed on it so it can take over when needed …

if you don't know Java, you're not going to be able to ask meaningful questions about and know if the answers you get are correct. So start learning Java.

there are browser specific CSS bits that only work in specific browsers. There are also bits of the standard that aren't implemented in all browsers. IE8 doesn't implement all of CSS3, neither do old versions of Chrome and Firefox. So either work around the problem by not using things that …

technically, only 1 class instance is created for any class per classloader. After that, any number of instance of that class can also be created, as needed, discarded, reused, serialised, deserialised, etc. etc.

which doesn't explain why he's getting an errot instead of an error :) What's an errot anyway?