Doesn't Java have Nullable<int>? You should be able to have an object with a null ID.

Disclaimer: Have not written a word of Java since 2001.

It's going to happen so you need to just embrace it.

Like everything, you gradually get better. You'll create fewer bugs, but more importantly you will become exponentially better at solving the bugs with experience.

One of the big things they tried to impress upon us at jumpstart was to get over the fear/anger/disappointment that comes when you first try to run your code and there's inevitably errors.

I remember once on my birthday, I was working and wrote code all day, for like 6 hours, then finally I ran it to test it and everything just worked flawlessly. I kept trying to generate errors for like half an hour because I figured I was being trolled.

That was one time, aside from that everything I've ever written has had bugs.

So you're saying I should take their advice and not get annoyed every single time things don't run flawlessly from the start?

The smashed 30" monitor in the middle of a $1k+ set of SNGs was much worse.

I still have 3 working MX Revolutions btw. Just broke the last one out of the box a few months ago. But the smooth scroll doesn't exactly work right (won't go superfast). So it's the backup mouse at work. I bought an MX master but haven't tried it yet.

I used to write a big program then run it and start debugging. But for many years now I basically start every project with hello world, then add one thing at a time, run, add another thing, run, etc.

I ended up with a G700s to replace my trusty MX Revolution. It's decent enough, certainly feels a bit cheaper though (it is half the price, to be fair).

The G700s has too few buttons to my taste; I used a G600 for a bit over a year until it started double-clicking and I didn't bother to have the microswitch repaired; instead, I switched to a Naga 2014, which lacks a third frontal button and is generally somewhat worse (most notoriously, its driver eats a ton of resources on startup).

Strangely enough, it seems to me that I'm closer to smashing my mouse during programming or related surfing than during poker play.

Bugs are really tilting. A cash hand or SnG ends and I quickly move on to the next one and forget about the ones finished. A bug stays and causes persistent frustration until I fix it.

Coding troubles are similar to what I've experienced in correspondence chess - surely, the latter is not for money, but if it were, it would be a blunt pain to be in a lost position and try desperately to salvage it for many days.

I know that I should comment code in more detail, encapsulate and test in smaller chunks, I was told that all back at uni, but there are also standard ways to improve my poker game too which I don't use nearly closely to their maximum potential.

Apparently you can't give primitive types a null value, what you can do however is declare an object of their corresponding wrapper class (in my case Integer instead of int) and give that object a null value.

I can't recall that I've ever used wrapper classes before and now I'm wondering why primitives are preferred over wrappers?

As for my project I still haven't decided how I'll implement it, but I'm pretty sure I'll use a nullable Integer over an int set as 0. Most likely though I'll just try to write the data straight into the db without creating an object first, and then only creating an object when the data is read from the db

I'm on the mailing list for the Amazon review thread for the Performance MX (the MX Revolution's ****ty replacement). I still get emails occasionally from new people bitching about it. Why Logitech decided to downgrade their flagship product should be studied in business school.

man who makes decisions at logitech, so disappointed in their latest "premium" mouse, just felt bad and way too big. On my third Performance MX and its OK but obviously the revolution was so much better. I literally have to replace my AA battery every 10 days.

I guess they really wanted the small universal dongle to help leverage their mouse popularity with other devices. With the small dongle you can't have 2-way communication - so the smart scroll shift had to be replaced by manual shift - which sucks donkey ass.

Pure speculation obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had to sell their stock growth story somehow and shoot for the moon, even if it meant potentially cannibalizing their premier product.

So Perf MX is a flagship mouse whose first ever failure happens because of battery discharge and before its microswitch wears out, really? Wow.

i'm loving the font on the new os x upgrade

There is a lot I dislike about this sentence

I like it but this is the font I really lurve http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator/

I'm guessing a bunch of us are following the Cruise scandal.

Holy **** I cannot believe the incompetence on display between people who are supposed to be experts in this.

i'm interpreting that as a shat at YC?

SamA said it himself that when the guy left he didn't sign anything, and this all would have been avoided if he did.

He definitely knows he ****ed up really really bad here.

I don't see this ending well, you can't just dissolve someone without any paperwork, especially in CA.

The counter suit is so cringeworthy. The guy sent an email asking how much he was getting, and the offer went up to 1.5m before Sam called himself and offered 4.5m which imo looks really bad.

I don't doubt that this guy wasn't responsible for a lot (any) of the actual hands on work for Cruise, but not having him sign an exit is so ****ing terrible. Really absurdly dumb, kinda hard to believe how everyone is an imposter and making things up as they go.

Prediction:

This is going to go down as one of the biggest **** ups in Silicon Valley history and be a case study in exit clauses and due diligence.

Yikes

Link to cliffs?

http://blog.samaltman.com/cruise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501470

For those who want a free font instead, there's a big collection of monospace fonts at http://programmingfonts.org/

The latest addition to it is mononoki