Is there a benefit for accessing fields via `this`? I am looking at a very old code-base, and every field access follows this pattern:  void method() {   TYPE fieldRef = this.field;   // Use fieldRef instead of field }   I can't figure out why this pattern is followed rigorously. Is there some performance benefit to this? Does it have something to do with how fields behave with inheritance?
In Java, why do people prepend fields with `this`? When referencing class variables, why do people prepend it with this? I'm not talking about the case when this is used to disambiguate from method parameters, but rather when it seems unnecessary.  Example:  public class Person {             private String name;      public String toString() {         return this.name;     } }   In toString, why not just reference name as name?  return name;   What does this.name buy?   a stackoverflow question whose code has this pre-pending.
What is the point of throwing candy on the ground using the "Throw 10 candies on the ground"? All that seems to happen is that the text under it becomes more and more disappointed in me. ಠ_ಠ Built-in unit strings recognized by Quantity? Indefinite integral $\int(\sin x)^2/(x\cdot\cos x-\sin x)^2\,dx$ How to find the antiderivative of $\dfrac{(\sin x)^2}{(x\cdot\cos x-\sin x)^2}$? I know that series theory can solve the problem. But I wish to solve the problem by the antiderivative way. The numerator and denominator divide the $x^2$ at the same time, don't they? Symbolic Link: Creating link from "NTFS Partiton" to ~/Desktop Why did R.A.B. put the locket back in the basin? led me to asking this one. R.A.B. takes the "real" locket out and asks Kreacher to destroy it, then puts the "fake" locket back in the basin. Why would he feel the need to do this? He knows already that Voldemort has used someone else to drink the potion (Kreacher). In fact Kreacher's story to him about his mistreatment on the island seems to push him over the edge to act.   Instead of assuring that someone else (most likely innocent like Kreacher) would have to drink from the basin, why not just leave the note outside the basin for someone to find? If Voldemort finds it then so be it, at least then no presumably innocent person would have to drink again. Astronauts land on planet, met by aliens impersonating their deceased relatives When I was young, I read a chilling story of astronauts coming to an unknown planet and found to their delight  the occupants were all members of their family who were deceased. Each crew member goes off to their respective childhood homes to relive memories.   One astronaut however in the same bedroom as his brother suddenly wonders if aliens may have searched the memories of himself and fellow crew members and used this to gain power over the intruders. His brother asks suspiciously what he's thinking and doesn't believe the answer. The last scene shows astronauts being buried by aliens whose faces melt from human into something terrifying.   Anyone know the name of the story and author? I thought it might be something like Coming Home, but only a guess. Please provide me with the guidance to install oracle 11gr2 on Ubuntu 14.04. cat line X to line Y on a huge file Say I have a huge text file (>2GB) and I just want to cat the lines X to Y (e.g. 57890000 to 57890010).  From what I understand I can do this by piping head into tail or viceversa, i.e.   head -A /path/to/file | tail -B   or alternatively  tail -C /path/to/file | head -D   where A,B,C and D can be computed from the number of lines in the file, X and Y.  But there are two problems with this approach:   You have to compute A,B,C and D. The commands could pipe to each other many more lines than I am interested in reading (e.g. if I am reading just a few lines in the middle of a huge file)   Is there a way to have the shell just work with and output the lines I want? (while providing only X and Y)? Suppress Fancy header and footer on first page only. Click to hide in the Hero content is not aligned correctly for the non joined communities The "Click to hide" icon in the hero content (welcoming message) for the non joined communities are not aligned correctly for most of the private beta and some other communities.  A few examples are:        Can the icon be aligned to the right hand side with correct padding? Are cardinal numbers well defined? Or could we have something like $\aleph_{1/2}$? From what I understood, cardinal numbers are defined as:  $\aleph_0$ = the cardinality of $\mathbb{N}$ $\aleph_{n+1}$ = is the least cardinal number greater than $\aleph_n$  The continuum hypothesis states that the cardinality of $\mathbb{R}$ is  $\aleph_1$. I more or less understand this cannot be proven (does not follow from ZFC).  However, can it be proven dat there in fact is a 'least cardinal number' greater than $\aleph_0$?  Is it possible that there are sets with cardinality $\aleph_{1/2}$, $\aleph_{1/3}$, et cetera, so to speak?  Or expressed differently: is it possible that for every set A with cardinality CA > $\aleph_0$, there exists another set B with cardinality CB where CA > CB > $\aleph_0$? Puzzling Enumerable.Cast InvalidCastException The following throws an InvalidCastException.  IEnumerable&lt;int&gt; list = new List&lt;int&gt;() { 1 }; IEnumerable&lt;long&gt; castedList = list.Cast&lt;long&gt;(); Console.WriteLine(castedList.First());   Why?  I'm using Visual Studio 2008 SP1. PHP & MySQL: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given Embedding videos and animations I'm aware that it's possible to embed some kinds of videos and animations in LaTeX files (using the beamer or prosper classes) but I couldn't locate good documentation on this. My web searches returned a list of scattered forum questions and answers.   Could anybody give a link to some help or documentation page that systematically deals with the various ways of embedding videos and animations, the file types that work, etc.? Say we have the following sample and we are trying to estimate the variance of the sample mean of the population.  X = [0, -1, 2, 10, -3]   If I take an increasing number of bootstrap (e.g. 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,0000), the bootstrap distribution of the sample mean gets narrower and narrower. In other words, I can make the bootstrap distribution arbitrarily narrow.   Given the above, what's the point of using a different number of bootstrap samples here? And wouldn't this mean that I could make the standard error of the mean arbitrarily small by just taking more and more bootstrap samples? What am I missing?  Please note that I am doing a proper bootstrap sample in the sense that each bootstrap sample has the same exact size as the original sample (input array). Prove Or Disprove: tr(AB)=tr(A)*tr(B) $\mathrm{tr}(AB)=\sum\limits_{i=1}^n \sum\limits_{j=1}^n a_{ij}*b_{ji}$  $\mathrm{tr}(A)*\mathrm{tr}(B)=\sum\limits_{i=1}^n a_{ii}*\sum\limits_{i=1}^n b_{ii}$  Therefore $\mathrm{tr}(AB) \neq \mathrm{tr}(A)*\mathrm{tr}(B)$  Is the proof valid? Why don't virtual particles violate conservation of mass/energy? When building console applications that take parameters, you can use the arguments passed to Main(string[] args).   In the past I've simply indexed/looped that array and done a few regular expressions to extract the values. However, when the commands get more complicated, the parsing can get pretty ugly.    So I'm interested in:   Libraries that you use Patterns that you use   Assume the commands always adhere to common standards such as . Let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1$. Suppose that all ideals $I \neq R$ are prime. Prove that $R$ is a field.   Help me some hints.  Thanks a lot. Viewport pivot point changed from scene objects to around viewport camera origin I am starting to learn using blender, and at some point I managed to do something to the 3D view camera.  Usually the camera orbits around an object, but now the rotation seems to happen (atleast very close to) around the "camera's origin". Neither the input setting in "User Preferences", the pivot point selection nor Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C (as suggested on some forum) do anything to the issue.