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A great example of how NOT to write Java. You say absolutely nothing with a whole lot of extra words.

For example: //============================================================== // Ajqvue Constructor //==============================================================

   public Ajqvue()
The constructor definition is already clear, I don’t need a big header telling me what a constructor is.

Instead, use comments generously where needed - for example, if you have a piece of business logic, a comment explaining the intent behind it can help the maintainer (likely you) a year down the road. What I mean by this, is that what your code DOES should be self evident - but documenting the business decision behind the implementation has done wonders for me.

Prevent shattering into multiple pieces. Remembering now, you had to hit the window in all corners. It was something complicated like that. Then you get the glass on the suction cup and place it down gently.

I didn’t like this idea, not just because it was complex, but also because it added a bunch of different gear I would have to carry.

Unfortunately I don’t know much about the Dutch perspective on this. As an American, this is the kind of thing that gets America to go to war - why didn’t the Netherlands decide to intervene after MH17?

There wasn’t much support in the very beginning - sure, some javelins and NLAWs. Whether they were the difference maker is unclear.

I see a lot of American “free thinkers” (who all think the same) push the argument that it was US provocations that lead to the war.

While there are many many many (many…) counters to that, I will let the russians themselves offer their counter. Check out Putin’s essays on Ukraine - he (and the majority of russians) hold a deep belief that Ukraine is just part of russia, and that it should be returned to russia.

As far as picking friends - who is giving military aid to help repel an aggressor, and who is killing, raping, torturing civilians?

I fought mostly with the TDF and SSO - all of us were volunteers or professional military. I personally haven’t met anyone who said they were forced to fight. Except for Russian POWs who claimed they were forced.

Yes, this works.

Actually while planning one SSE operation, we heavily debated the best way to break glass windows. One guy on the team wanted to tape around the edges, attach a suction cup to the center, and break the window with a spark plug. While that would work, and be the quieter option, I decided it would be too slow and too complicated. I was expecting to break a lot of windows, and we only had 2 hours for SSE. So in the end, I decided to just smash the window with a crowbar, and run the crowbar violently along the edges to clear out any big broken glass still not detached from the window frame. Then make entry.

Mate, it’s democracy vs dictatorship. Russia didn’t invade the US, it invaded Ukraine. We would keep fighting even without US support. Freedom is non-negotiable.

Street 14, Kharkiv. I remember battles in that area. I remember when some of the houses there got hit. One night specifically, I was on a base a ways away, and I heard one of the loudest explosions I’d heard during the war. The curtains in our room even lifted, halfway to the ceiling.

I don’t particularly care if humans are a cause of climate change or any of the other debated topics in the sphere of climate science. I want a clean planet for my kids/grandkids/their grandkids, so I want legislative and foreign policies that support that. Some things are a lot more important than economic growth.

When working hospital shifts, I routinely took naps whenever possible. I personally wouldn’t hire an engineer with your sense of entitlement, because you would be very difficult to manage and probably wouldn’t produce the same results as your other team-player colleagues.

I agree. Full time employment comes with it the expectation of a higher level of job security (contractors are fired or laid off first), along with benefits (PTO, healthcare, stock options, etc).

Let’s say 100k base salary. 5% additional comp (bonuses or stock, this is conservative number). Healthcare for you, another $300/month, not even counting employers who cover dependents. Ignoring all taxes including FICA. PTO 3 weeks (120 hours).

Base salary is 48/hour, but your total comp will bring it to more like 58/hour. Which is probably more than your contractor counterparts.

You trade a little bit more of your time (responding to outages or crunching for a product launch deadline) for the security and benefits.

If one of my employees refused to respond to an outage because it’s outside 9-5 working hours, I would fire them for cause (pending approval from legal of course).

Yes, absolutely I would.

I don’t really go to clubs anymore, and I don’t enjoy my flashy stuff anymore either.

Otherwise I stand by those comments. They were made to a guy running a sex tourism business.