[quote user="Mcoder"] [quote user="ubersoldat"]I have no idea of how GC in PHP works, but since almost every language today has GC, everytime I see a "destruction" method, I know the person has no idea of WTF he's doing.[/quote]  So, in a GC language, where should people delete temporary files, close ...

[quote user="dkf"][quote user="Rhywden"]Which kind of moron codes a language such that an assignment means an automatic write to the database?[/quote]It seems to be quite a common concept with a certain type of coder. Exhibit #1: MUMPS…[/quote] Exhibit #2: Perl tie Maybe I was too subtle before when I mentioned Larry Wall.

[quote user="Rhywden"][quote user="Buttembly Coder"]Well, if it's a language that allows it, they could have overloaded the = operator, and assignment is a very costly operation now, such as writing to a database.[/quote] Which kind of moron codes a language such that an assignment means an automatic write to the ...

Tell them you have written a cron job that will add more meetings, but it doesn't get kicked off right away. For example, if you carefully specify weekday, month, and day you can extend the 1st execution of the cron job until 2036.

[quote user="blakeyrat"]What screenshot tool doesn't hide the mouse? WTF.[/quote] It is possibly the screenshot of a Remote Desktop session.

[quote user="blakeyrat"][quote user="Rick"]It is the year 2013 and CPU speeds have not significantly increased in almost a decade.[/quote] You realize hertz isn't the only measure of CPU speed right? My laptop's Core i5 1.9 ghz is a fuckload faster than the Pentium 4 you had a decade ago, even if you restrict it to a ...

Male is one, Female is zero. They are pictograms, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram. Duh

It is the year 2013 and CPU speeds have not significantly increased in almost a decade. Whether threads are difficult or not is irrelevant. If we want our programs to perform better than they did ten years ago we need programmers with competency in this "new" technology. The 'C' language was quite a bit harder than FORTRAN. move ...

[quote user="pure"]One word - nondeterminism. At least, I think that is a word. Anyway, queue someone bringing up Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes)[/quote]  That was written in 1996 when using anything but a single processor was unusual. It is 17 years later. Move on.

Life is multi threaded. There are some languages where you can be quite a successful programmer and not deal with threads. This is not the case for Java. But I would have used a synchronized HashMap. So I can access it through the Map interface, and so it has the word synchronized glaring out at the offending programmer.