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Re:Java Secret: Using an enum to build a State machine by earl on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @02:50PM (#2755947)
The website is so distracting I couldn't even pay attention to the content. Not only is there a bloody ad in the middle of the first paragraph forcing the text to wrap around the ad, but at most 15% of the above the fold site is actual content. Swaths of the page are devoted to really nothing at all (enormous header and sidebar), ads, and useless whitespace. And are the pennies the author gets for running ads like that really worth making the site look like shit?

https://img.skitch.com/20110712-pff65sbxas9t89w6ecckqjq9ic.j...

edit: dear authors: if you're going to share content, share content. Not header, sidebar, adds, rss, follow me on twitter, stumble, +1, bing, like, toolbars, etc. There's a reason people fucking love readability.

Re:Java Secret: Using an enum to build a State machine by pan69 on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @03:51PM (#2756228)
Its a content farm, probably to count ad impressions or some other BS. This is the original (from the bottom of the article):

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/06/java-secret-using-en...

Re:Java Secret: Using an enum to build a State machine by kidmenot on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:00PM (#2756549)
I agree.

Plus, that background picture screams "LOOK AT ME, ALL I'M DOING HERE IS CLUTTERING UP THIS PAGE EVEN MORE!!!!111one" to me.