Working on a codebase now that has this defensive coding pattern everywhere:

List xs = ... if (xs != null) for (Object x : xs) { ... }
Please excuse me while I go gouge my eyes out. See here for enlightenment as to why this is extremely harmful...

Wow, it's quiet around here.

"Here" meaning LJ.

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This
Afternoon

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Yeah, so my uncle Mike lives in Anchorage. And I don't know why, for all these years, I've been looking at all that Alaska ski pr0n and not making it an immediate priority to go up and visit ( Read more... )

snow tires go on tomorrow :-)

That is all.

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one not-so-nice thing about working in new york city is that every so often, something happens to remind you which side of the tracks you really live on ( Read more... )

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