Gacked from insidious1

[thesheryl]

book meme

Comments

[pfloide]

Well, I'm detaching the replicator part of the meme, but here's the sentence:

"The largest human-made structure on the planet is not an Egyptian pyramid or a hydroelectric dam but the Staten Island Fresh Kills landfill near New York City, which has a depth of one hundred meters and an area of nine square kilometers."

[henrytroup]

Arguably, the Sahara is as much a human artifact, and bigger.

[pfloide]

You're right - that is arguable, unless anthropogenic global warming goes back to the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. Though I guess the old "goats as WMD" argument is fairly believable.

[xiphia]

"Because Object.clone returns Object, PhoneNumber.clone must cast the result of super.clone() before returning it, but this is far preferable to requiring every caller of PhoneNumber.clone to cast the result."

[henrytroup]

Sounds like Java ... Large parts of the cutesy stuff in Java Puzzlers revolves around that particular behaviour.

Persepolis 2 : The Story of a Return

[a_dream_tiger]

"What a disappointment... my enthusiasm was quickly replaced by a feeling of disgust and profound contempt."

To xiphia: Although overriding the clone method and changing the return type to the specific PhoneNumber class is not fully supported in all OO languages and may lead to inheritance ambiguity issues, expecially in cases where we are dealing with a heterogeneous collection of Objects to clone.
(Sorry just felt the need to spread some extra gekk on that)

Re: Persepolis 2 : The Story of a Return

[xiphia]

*snort* Well it asked for the exact sentence, not my analysis of same. Extra gekk is never unwelcome though. :)

[vwpbl]

'A new pal,' replied Jack Dawkins, pulling Oliver forward.

[henrytroup]

The closest book was the OED? or possibly the Big Red Webster-Mirriam?