evil – Gioorgi

On Constants

October 4, 2019 October 4, 2019 / English Content, Humor, Programming languages, Software / evil, ideas, java

I think constants are evil (just joking but….I will explain why). I am tired of seeing a lot of Java classes filled with the same constants repeated over and over again, instead of collecting them in a common file, which in C Language was called include files (ooooah!). Sometimes it is impossible to understand if …

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Comments are evil?

April 15, 2019 November 28, 2019 / English Content, Programming languages, Software / evil, ideas, java

In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the “gap” between unstructured code and “rationale” behind the code. C/64 Peek and poke where oscure. Gosub on function pointed by numbers was bad 8-bit systems was tight on command names and so on (think to write a python interpreter in Arduino/bbc:Micro, or look at the memory …

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Removing duplicate rows in PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite

June 16, 2017 November 28, 2019 / English Content, Knowledgebase, Structured Query Language (SQL) / dup, duplicate, duplicates, evil, oracle, postgresql, removal, sql

Sometimes you need to remove nasty duplicate on a table, based on a subset of the column. On every big database there is something called “rowid” which can be used to indentify a column in a unique way. On PostgreSQL is called ctid, as we shall see: Oracle way: DELETE FROM your_table WHERE rowid not …

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At last Bing is not so bad

February 7, 2011 February 11, 2011 / English Content, Software / adsense, bad, bing, empire, evil, fear, freedom, google, microsoft

I have used Google in the past 8 years (I know, I am a bit old). Then I was annoyed because of a bad behavior of Google with my AdSense account (shutdown without being able to talk back to someone for explanation). In the last month I tried Bing and I was happy with it. …

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The Project Manager

June 28, 2006 January 18, 2009 / English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com / ant, evil, fini, java, linux, meta, programming, project, provider, steve, trouble, ui, vi

Steve is not a normal solution provider.
Steve is the final destination for Project Management troubles.
Let's see how Steve can solve problems

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