Big Sister is mean

Some good stuuf yesterday. Yet again I was preoccupied with a game and forgot to post. Bioshock 2 is sweet. Enjoy them:

Phil: In what way would the truly enlightened developer, having the Garth nature, propagate a JobID across a distributed parser?
-Well played sir

Phil: I think I'm going to go with the solution which provides future programmers with the most rope with which to hang themselves.
Me: Garth would be proud

Dear Java,
(this.env = new Properties()).load(new StringReader((String) arg1.get("ENVIRONMENT")));
OH GOD I'M ON FIRE IT BURNS AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
-Thanks again Phil

"Any sufficiently developed technology is indiscernible from magic." -Arthur C Clarke

You owe us requisitioning. Matriarchs over the hanging east river. Not even vicious elks remember. Losing our vintage entry days. Yesterdays oven undone.

Ok, really. The java.lang classes seem hellbent to not be able to plug directly into each other.
Hell, even themselves.
To output a Properties list as a string that is capable of being read by an instance of Properties (THE SAME OBJECT!!!!!) I need to walk it through a Writer and then dump the buffer into a string, then feed that string INTO a Reader when I load it.
Would it have fucking killed them to have written load(String) and store(String) since they already have both for InputStream/OutputStream and Reader/Writer
GRHAGHJKAGHJKRH GARTH DAMN YOU, SUN!
Can't even read your own damn toString() format piece of shit COCKBURGLER
-Poor Phil

Time to get some work done so I can go home and play. good night Internet.