When load the properties file I get a java.lang.NullPointerException  This is a simple java swing application, try to read the properties file with following code get java.lang.NullPointerException:  InputStream inputStream; Properties properties;  inputStream = new FileInputStream("C:/Config/config.properties"); properties.load(inputStream);
What are Null Pointer Exceptions (java.lang.NullPointerException) and what causes them?  What methods/tools can be used to determine the cause so that you stop the exception from causing the program to terminate prematurely?
Can the editor for editing tag descriptions get updated to match the normal questions/answers editor? Is it correct to use that/which in the relative clause when it is referring to the place as an object pronoun? I was teaching an ESL class and came across this sentence which confused me a lot:  &quot;The Queen Alice is the place that I go to the most&quot; &quot;Isn't that the place which kids under 12 can't enter?&quot;  Are these 2 sentences correct? Shouldn't &quot;where&quot; be used for both sentences when it's referring to the place and replacing the object? Does Python have a ternary conditional operator? If Python does not have a ternary conditional operator, is it possible to simulate one using other language constructs? line segment joining two centers of circles is perpendicular to line segment joining two intersection point of the circles How do I login to the Gamecenter on PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator, if you have not done it when they asked? Is there a problem with Beamer in the latest MiKTeX update? This is about MiKTeX Revision 2.9.6360.  Immediately after the latest MiKTeX update, my Beamer files stopped compiling.  When i tried to compile a file that had been working fine I got a Package installation popup saying:  tex\latex\beamer\beamerbasemodes.sty  Is missing.  It is part of the following package  beamer   So i clicked to have it installed.  All that achieved is that i got an error message  ! LaTeX error: File 'beamerbasemodes.sty' not found   I repeated this a few times with minor changes to the file, and then went to the MiKTeX Package Manager to see what parts of Beamer are installed.  It said none were.  Either the update had removed Beamer, or the attempt to install beamerbasemodes on the fly had done it.  So I reinstalled it by hand.  In fact i did this several times in various ways.  It made one difference.  Sometimes the problem package was identified as  translator.sty  In case it would help, I ran Update FNDB and restarted my machine.  Each time I installed Beamer, the Package Manager then reported that Beamer was installed.    But when I tried to compile the file, the same things happened all over.   And when i went back to the MiKTeX Package Manager it reported Beamer is not installed.   Is Beamer now out of date?  Or is this a problem on the new update?  Is there a simple fix i can use? How should you interview for QA *Automation* positions? What's the derivative of: $ \sqrt{x+\sqrt{{x}+\sqrt{x+\cdots}}}$? let $ y=\displaystyle \sqrt{x+\sqrt{{x}+\sqrt{x+\cdots}}}$, i'm really interesting to know how do I find :  $\displaystyle \frac{dy}{dx}$ ?.  Note: I have used the definition of derivative of the square root function but i don't succed .  Thank you for any help A question about a primitive root mod $p=2^{2^k}+1$, where $p$ is prime. 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Adding script conditionally Formula for the $n$th term of $1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 ,4, 4, 5, ...$ Or, an introductory guide to robust filename handling and other string passing in shell scripts.  I wrote a shell script which works well most of the time. But it chokes on some inputs (e.g. on some file names).  I encountered a problem such as the following:   I have a file name containing a space hello world, and it was treated as two separate files hello and world. I have an input line with two consecutive spaces and they shrank to one in the input. Leading and trailing whitespace disappears from input lines. Sometimes, when the input contains one of the characters \[*?, they are replaced by some text which is is actually the name of files. There is an apostrophe ' (or a double quote ") in the input and things got weird after that point. There is a backslash in the input (or: I am using Cygwin and some of my file names have Windows-style \ separators).   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