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Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

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2 HN recommenders · discussed 2015–2018
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Josh Bloch and Jeremy Manson present the eighth installment of Java Puzzlers at Google I/O 2011, a set of surprising corner cases in the Java language and libraries. It includes puzzlers on traps such as regular expression performance.

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HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.

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isbadawi · 2015-10 · rec

Java Puzzlers spring to mind. There's a book [0], and some fun talks available on youtube [1][2][3]. [0]: [LINK] [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK]

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denormalfloat · 2018-10 · rec

Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining. For a pretty bog standard language, Java has some more exotic corners: [VIDEO]

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nayuki · 2017-07 · reference

Understanding good idioms in Java, instead of learning from scattered pieces of folk knowledge: * [LINK] * [LINK] (a talk by the author) Corner cases in the Java programming language: * [LINK] * [VIDEO] (a talk by the author)

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