Fair Observer

No Bones About It: The Canonization of Charlie Kirk

In our age of mass media, no event has more power to spontaneously produce a dominant narrative than the murder of a public figure, especially a politicized one. Charlie Kirk’s killing has initiated a ...
Phillies Nation

Kyle Schwarber is closing in on the Phillies record for home runs in a season, and Ryan Howard wants to see him get there

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard remembers what it was like to hit home runs into the second deck at Citizens Bank Park in the pursuit of a Phillies franchise record. That’s why he’s pulling for Kyle ...
TheServerSide

String to long in Java

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The correct way to convert a String to long in Java is to use the parseLong(String x) method of ...
GitHub

NumberFormatException occurs when parsing numeric literals with decimal point

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1.5" at java.base/java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException ...
Fair Observer

Virtual Reality is Impossible, Like Perpetual Motion

Over a hundred years ago, most scientific evidence pointed toward an impending invention which would change the world, encapsulated in the paradoxical expression “perpetual motion.” Ultimately that ...
GitHub

Allow to set minSdkVersion,compileSdkVersion,targetSdkVersion via local.properties

I had to change minSdkVersion to 21 and was struggling to do that. After googling around and failed to find robust way of doing it without hardcoding it into build.grande, this is what I have end up ...