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Even in lowly Java, they later added to Optional the orElseThrow() method since the name of the get() method did not connote the impact of unwrapping an empty Optional.

When I worked at Khan Academy, Charlie was an intern, and for a few months we worked together on building the KA app for Android. I can vouch that he was a damn good developer then…

Yeah, but it's the rank and file employees who will now think "I'm not there to defend myself against being fired if I take maternity/paternity leave" who will suffer most. The one…

Every other theory listed here is far more likely, but I would try changing your loop from using System.currentTimeMillis() to using System.nanoTime(). It's a higher-resolution tim…

Agreed. Joda had the right abstractions (instants, durations, etc) but the class hierarchy for them was unnecessarily complex. A lot of this complexity comes from opting for the ab…

I have a horrible memory when it comes to the detail of books, movies, etc. (But thankfully I can remember what I've coded, or else I'd probably be out of a job.) I mostly read non…

Oops! My mistake – you are absolutely correct. Lombok was just so pervasively used in our services, I assumed it came included as part of the Dropwizard toolbox.

I used it extensively while writing Java code at Airbnb. (It came included with Dropwizard, which we used for writing services.) Some people are uncomfortable with the extensive by…

I appreciate how the characters in the example are named Bart and Lisa.

Retrofit has support for RxJava, both of which are mentioned on the list. If Retrofit deserializes your JSON response payload as type T, then upon making a request it will return a…

But explicitly spelling out to your wealthy competitor all the ways in which you kick its ass likely improves your chances of being acquired.

I'm not going to lie, I didn't like this post as much as I wanted to. The author says that Google is making the same mistakes that LiveNinja made over a year ago. And that LiveNinj…

From http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Ch... : "The native character encoding of the Java programming language is UTF-16." That said, at least they adopted …

As another year ex-Googler, I'd say this is BS. Everything that superseded the "gconfig" days was pretty amazing, and IIRC the team behind it in NY did quite well for themselves. S…

"Think different"? These slides look to be from the same deck. I wonder if there are more yet to come.

I like the idea. Note that if there is a lot of text traffic on a given number, carriers like AT&T, Verizon, et al will block texts to and from that number until the traffic subsid…

> I think my co-founders are idiots, that they fouled up their side of the deal, but I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now. You've got to let go of th…

Youtube pre-Google was still Python, from the way several Youtubers have told it to be. Maybe an initial prototype was PHP, but not what was running when it was purchased. And trus…

It's been awhile since I've read it, but I remember reading something along those lines in "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" ( http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surpr…

"John, I'm just been told that Groupon is announcing my termination tomorrow. If you could put me in touch with a PR person that's familiar with Battletoads, I'd be very appreciati…

I have word that #45 may have the solution in this issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=175341

Good list. My only thoughts: Prefer itertools.izip instead of zip to avoid materializing a new list. Appending the comma operator to the print statement suppresses the newline char…