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One way to do this is to find a better job. Another way to do it is to put more effort into improving the quality of your current team. In the long run, that's a skill you're gonna…

I particularly like the "anti-priorities" section. You can't optimise for everything, and it's refreshing to see someone be upfront about the things which they're prepared to let b…

The interesting thing is that the "obvious correct" behaviour would require the precedence of the + operator to depend on the types of the operands - which is obviously impossible …

Strong v weak typing isn't an absolute categorisation, it's a spectrum. There aren't many places Java will automatically coerce types, and the ones that do exist are narrow (numeri…

But the problem with Hollywood accounting isn't that distributors are unable to transparently share financial details. It's that they've worked very hard to find ways to obfuscate …

It depends on what you mean by "bad idea". You've got three choices, basically: analyse source, analyse the AST, or analyse bytecode. There are advantages and disadvantages of each…

The distinction I was trying to make was one between where in the toolchain it lives: error-prone is part of compilation, whereas Findbugs is after-the-fact. Error-prone is a compi…

Technically, it's not a compiler plugin - it actually replaces javac by extending JavaCompiler, wrapping it and applying additional verifications without altering the output. Effec…

Also, error-prone works in a fundamentally different way to FindBugs: error-prone is a compiler plugin, whereas Findbugs is an after-the-fact static analyser. This means, for examp…