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1:21 AM
I find great irony in:
 
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Q: Is too much whitespace a bad thing?

MiloI'm often told by my friends and colleagues that I use way to much whitespace. I guess I do use a little too much whitespace. I often add a line break almost after every line and large blocks of whitespace, often 3 or 4 lines because it helps me see what I've written and understand what I've writ...

 
user15026
@MichaelT ...okay, that is special. :P Did they use up all their whitespace, and thus had none for this question?
 
user55340
1:47 AM
I would also note some irony of the lack of white space in your writing (at least revision 1). Please consider breaking up your text so that appropriate blocks of context can be identified. — MichaelT 3 mins ago
 
user15026
@MichaelT Very nice.
 
user55340
3:03 AM
And today in 'weird things in stack exchange'
 
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A: Carrying Pizza on a Bicycle

RoboKarenFor the ultimate in pizza carrying, you want a pneumatic air suspension, pendulum-based anti-sway bar equipped carrier. This are/were used by ramen delivery bicylists in Japan, although they are getting rarer (people don't order delivery ramen noodles like they used to) and mostly on motorcycles ...

 
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user15026
@MichaelT O.o
 
user55340
Another answer suggests something along the lines of:
 
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user15026
3:05 AM
@MichaelT That reminds me of the melon carrying mini game in Yoshi's Story
 
4:24 AM
@MichaelT no way those are full
A) Banana boxes can carry a literal shit-ton of anythinig
B) the first time he tried to stop, he would be killed in the avalanche of boxes of whatever he had decided to carry
 
 
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user55340
12:49 PM
I love JSON. It's giving people opportunities to recreate the dumbest ideas of the XML era but with curly braces instead of angle brackets.
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user55340
1:13 PM
@JimmyHoffa you where this close to having your C# start looking like php.
 
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Hmm. Anyone think that Java 8 is widespread enough to use as a target yet?
Especially if I don't really need any Java 8 features.
 
user55340
@ThomasOwens Nope.
 
user55340
Thought it depends on what you're doing with it.
 
user55340
If you're in the EE world... well, you're still around 1.6 unless you're bleeding edge.
 
1:20 PM
I'm tossing around an idea for a desktop application.
 
user55340
I'd be very tempted to go with 1.8 then so that you can use the new features if they are appropriate.
 
Although a web app would also work, I wouldn't use Java for it if I went the web route. And I think it's easier toget users if I ran it locally on a desktop.
 
user55340
Is this for internal?
 
user55340
Or is it a "hey everyone, here's a java app for you to use"
 
My own personal use, mostly.
But I want to make it available for others. I just don't know how many computers are running Java 8. I don't think I need any Java 8 features, so maybe I'll start with Java 7 first?
 
user55340
1:22 PM
(the java web start is very appealing for a company internal app at times)
 
user55340
Java Web Start = Java stand alone app that checks a server to see if it needs to update.
 
Hmm. I'll look into that, but I don't know if it's appropriate. Is it easy to transition to that from a traditional desktop app?
It seems like it is, from what I'm reading.
 
user55340
Fairly easy. It is a stand alone application... just has a few more files (.jnlp) that says where things are located.
 
user55340
One of the joys of stand alone apps in a intranet setting is its impossible to get every last old version of the application updated... someone always has one sitting somewhere.
 
I'm thinking start with a Java 7 build, add Java Web Start and/or Java 8 builds later.
 
user55340
1:25 PM
And then you get a support call of "why isn't XYZ working? When I used it a month ago, it was fine..." -- "Did you read the upgrade announcement sent out last week? and that old versions would break?" -- "Umm... what?"
 
user55340
Which goes to "Oh, I'm not on that mailing list, I got a copy of this from John when he left"
 
user55340
Great fun all around.
 
user55340
Do look at JavaFX rather than Swing though.
 
I'll look into that. Thanks.
 
 
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6:01 PM
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