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watchmaker‭

Mark Twain, My Watch:

While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance -- a steamboat engineer of other days, and not a good engineer, either. He examined all the parts carefully, just as the other watch-makers had done, and then delivered his verdict with the same confidence of manner.

He said:

She makes too much steam -- you want to hang the monkey-wrench on the safety-valve!

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Q&A java.time.ZonedDateTime missing seconds in output

When printing a java.time.ZonedDateTime, it's missing the seconds in output, is it a bug or a feature? See my code: package tryNcry; import java.time.Instant; import java.time.ZoneId; import...

2 answers · posted 2mo ago by watchmaker‭ · edited 2mo ago by watchmaker‭

Question java datetime

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Q&A Java generics, how to work around type erasure?

This code doesn't compile: package tryNcry; public class ExampleClass<S extends SomeClass> { S[] createArray(int n) { return new S[n]; // obvious compile time ERROR here: ...

1 answer · posted 3mo ago by watchmaker‭ · edited 3mo ago by hkotsubo‭

Question java generics

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Q&A Java: ignore warnings from generated code

Again, I'm playing around with javaCC, and get those annoying warnings about "unused" and "dead code". Is there a decent way to put a @SuppressWarnings annotation on a whole package but not on the...

0 answers · posted 1mo ago by watchmaker‭

Question java code-generation javacc

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Q&A eclipse templates -- creating and setting a permanent variable

In eclipse (java) Window->Preferences->Java->New new templates can be created. In the field "Pattern" I entered System.out.println("DEBUG ${label}"); ${cursor} I like old-style debug...

0 answers · posted 2mo ago by watchmaker‭ · edited 1mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Setting icon with javaFX does not show in task list

I try to set an icon (*.png) with javaFX, but it does not show in the task bar, instead I see the default icon (white cogwheel on light gray background). Here is my code: package application; ...

0 answers · posted 1mo ago by watchmaker‭

Question java linux javafx

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Q&A Trouble understanding java lambdas and generics

Of course, everyone thinks to understand lambdas and generics. I was one of those until recently. Look at my code: package debug; import java.util.function.Function; public class Understand...

1 answer · posted 3mo ago by watchmaker‭ · last activity 3mo ago by r~~‭

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Q&A eclipse: change toString to prettyPrint

The task looks ridiculously simple, but I could not find a way of doing it but manually. I have a class with a @Override ... toString() method. I want to diversify this to a more specialized meth...

0 answers · posted 2mo ago by watchmaker‭

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