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04:32 nanoz vello guys
04:33 nanoz aditsu,
04:33 nanoz pdurbin
04:33 nanoz wats up
04:33 nanoz pdurbin have you worked on javafx
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10:01 aditsu hmm, at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/preferences/overview.html it says "In a static method (or static initializer), you need to explicitly provide the name of the package"
10:02 aditsu why couldn't you just do Preferences.userNodeForPackage(Gadget.class) like before?
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13:49 pdurbin nanoz: I did a hands on lab with javafx. but that's it. here it is: https://github.com/jperedadnr/Game2048HOL
13:53 nanoz nice pdurbin
13:54 pdurbin nanoz: aditsu is the one with actual javafx experience
13:55 aditsu a little :p I'm mostly fighting with it
13:55 * nanoz salute :)
13:55 aditsu http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33318661/javafx-alert-truncates-the-message
13:57 aditsu nanoz: салют
13:57 pdurbin aditsu: nice that you mention this channel at http://stackoverflow.com/users/179864/aditsu
13:58 aditsu yeah, I'd like to get more people in here
13:59 pdurbin aditsu: you should make a website
13:59 aditsu for the channel? I don't know what I would write :p
14:00 pdurbin aditsu: you could write "I'd like to get more people in here" :)
14:00 aditsu haha
14:01 pdurbin at least we picked up sfisque. he's good people
14:03 aditsu multiple personalities? :p
14:04 pdurbin I'm from the Midwest: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24960/hes-good-people-just-him-the-one-guy
14:07 aditsu somebody once showed me Midwest on a map, it was mostly center-east :p
14:08 aditsu wikipedia says it's center-north
14:08 aditsu (and slightly east too)
14:17 nanoz its all my fault not learning java 8 :(
14:17 nanoz i did my projects on java 7
14:35 pdurbin speaking of hands on labs, I bet this will be good: http://blog.eisele.net/2015/10/docker-for-java-ee-developers-javvaone.html
14:35 pdurbin pulsar256 sfisque ^^
14:36 pdurbin and I'm curious what you all think about this: The horrors of Java's leniency with basic floating-point math.  Bonus points:… - https://plus.google.com/+MichaelMcCandless/posts/6Rt4euZbb3x
14:36 pdurbin (which is a link to https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf )
14:38 pdurbin aditsu: Midwest Peace Talks Shattered By Illinois Toll-Booth Bombing - http://www.theonion.com/article/midwest-peace-talks-shattered-by-illinois-toll-boo-484
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16:37 aditsu pdurbin: about the floating point stuff: wow, VERY old pdf, and it looks like ridiculously much ado about nothing
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20:49 pdurbin aditsu: yeah, old but I wonder if there's something to it. A quote from a paper by the same author at http://or8.net/pipermail/codecraft/2015-October/000079.html about the wrong message to pilots that ended in tragedy.
23:29 pdurbin sometimes this floating point stuff matters

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