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Some programmers say Java requires too much work to get so little done. What is an example of this? Rod Galvao, = new HomoSapiensSapiens(DNA.FREETHINKER); 135.3k views Here is a simple Java example: public final class Person implements Serializable { public final String name; public final String surname; public Person(String name, String surname) { if (name == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null name"); if (surname == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null surname"); this.name = name; this.surname ... Read More » Psychology of Everyday Life: Why do many high IQ people avoid personal relationships? Jen Rod, Digital Designer • Vlogger • Los Angeles 79.4k views It simply boils down to fear of wasting time. There seems to be an unconscious need to reserve creative/mental/emotional energy and relationships require energy/effort. Effort requires time. Time is an investment. Relationships are high risk investments and because of that fact alone we're just highly selective. ;) IMO!  Read More » What can we learn from the "Three No's" Strategy adopted by Senate Republicans? Tim Kaine, United States Senator from Virginia 861.3k views I think this question makes a lot of sense when you look at another recent event that you may not have heard of in the news. In early February President Obama sent to Congress his budget, pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 1974. The Budget Committees are to hold hearings on the budget – even if they don’t like it. For every President that has held office since the Budget Act of 1974 passed...  Read More » If 90% of traders lose and 10% wins, are those 10% disproportionally made up of very high IQ people? Bartosz Jazdzewski, Works as PHP, HTML, CSS, MySql web developer - Vebii-com founder 69.1k views ​   Its not even %10 - statistically only %5 people make money trading and out of those %5 only %3 are doing very well.   The reason why they are doing that good is that: They have well planned strategy and most importantly They stick to this strategy no matter what People lose money because they let their emotions take control over decisions they are making at crucial points. That's why only %5 of ...  Read More » Why has China, a much larger country, never invaded Japan? Gabriel Chan, Shiba Inu Fan & User# 3736 67k views Countries do not invade each other for fun. Except the Mongols. China thought it was the centre of the universe and Japan was a barbarian land on the fringes. China was a land rich in human and natural resources. Up until opium was introduced to China, the government thought that China and its people had everything it ever needed domestically. There was no incentive to leave China or colonize ... Read More » Why did Germany not invade Ireland during the WW2 to use it to springboard into Britain? Stephen Tempest 29.4k views This is the main armament of HMS Rodney, one of twelve battleships in the British Royal Navy. If you look closely at the deck underneath the gun barrels, you can see some people standing there: just to give you a sense of the scale.   Compare this: a German river barge. These were the only vessels Germany had available in 1940 in sufficient numbers to carry an invasion force.   Simple question: if it...  Read More » What are some common characteristics of people with high IQ's? David Fellowes, As I was saying, ... 82.8k views On a personal level, I'll tell you the thing that struck me most when I started going to Mensa meetings. I never had to repeat myself, nor did I ever require it of others. Although there were people from all walks of life, with widely differing opinions and backgrounds, that was the one common factor: we all understood each other. You can imagine my relief; I, who had never been understood, who...  Read More » How does a programmer become a brogrammer? Jimmy Jacobson, Developer. 206.6k views Everything I know about Brogrammers I learned from the movie Swordfish. A Brogrammer.... can work well under the tightest deadlines, or while receiving oral sex. maintains a solid 120 wpm on the keyboard while drunk and dancing can figure out how to drive a stick in the middle of a gunfight doesn't make johnny five style comments ("nice software") around the ladies Respects Quora's policy on short ...  Read More » What can a person with an IQ of 160 do that a person with an IQ of 100 cannot? Are certain things fundamentally unlearnable/undoable like IQ claims? How can this be overcome? Leah Alissa Bayer, Architect-in-testing in Silicon Valley. Ambitious & Deliberate. INTJ. 39.8k views When I was 15 my mother moved my sister and I out of state. To prove that I was qualified for the the AP classes I requested at my new high school, my mother had my IQ tested by a registered psychologist. When revealing my score to my mother, the psychologist recommended not sharing the information with me - her experience was that people who knew their IQ at my score tended to slack off in sch...  Read More » Did the army develop a sound device to simulate the pinging of the M1 Garand in World War two to bait out the Japanese? Khalid Elhassan, Eclectic Rabbit Hole 40.7k views The M1 Garand's pinging story (that when the last shot was fired there was a distinctive pinging sound as the clip ejected, somehow enabling the enemy to close in and kill the unfortunate GI) is just a myth that's clearly senseless once somebody takes a few seconds to think about it.  During the din of a firefight, just how likely is somebody to hear a ping of an ejecting clip from 50 to 100 ya...  Read More »