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Matt Olson: How to Write Like a Wanker, "A popular misconception about text messages on the Internet is that, to be an effective communicator and earn the respect and admiration of your peers, you must be able to write lucid prose; that your messages, articles, posts and pages must be easy to understand and pleasant to read."
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The NullPointerException in Java can be incredibly annoying. In some languages, such as Objective-C, the null (or in their case, nil) object doesn't throw an exception, it just quietly returns another nil for every method called on it. I prefer the Java behaviour. Many others disagree.