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sure. It used to be that major releases were tied with major features. InvokeDynamic on 7, Lambdas on 8, Jigsaw on 9. So since these were the features that were expected, the relea…

Installing the JDK has no ask toolbar (vs the JRE which is just the client libs)

not quite patterns, but preferences :) https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

http://cdn.slowrobot.com/524201613515576555.gif :)

Can't stress this enough. If you have Employee Incentive Options is way better to exercise them as soon as they are vested than to wait (if thinking of exercising at all). When you…

or we can skip a generation and go to JRuby ;)

Can you attach the JDK sources and put a breakpoint in the HttpRequest constructor? Then you should be able to find the culprit right?

Mandatory xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/1497/

I disagree, I think the hard skills for being a successful software developer are picked up by honing your craft daily working on the same project. Hackathons are too contrived sin…

I would biased-ly recommend javapubhouse.com (I host it). Is a tech dive on a Java topic that you can listen while on the radio/threadmill (you can close your eyes and follow the c…

Neat, will check it out. Yeah, Kanji might be a tall order right now (still working with Hiragana/Katakana first), but found the forums. Kinda nice to find a community of Japanese …

Spanish native speaker here. I'm still waiting for my ah-ha moment (I'm learning Japanese for the past 4 months at a rate of 4 hours per week), I do hope it arrives. It took me pro…

Mandatory XKCD Time travel Comic http://xkcd.com/716/

// and Wing Commander including Armada, Descent, and Freespace (even Star Wars Tie Fighter). The last Space Sim that I found was Strike Suit Zero ( http://store.steampowered.com/ap…

Working with the JVM, there is definitively more cross-platform support (I know there's Mono for CLR but it's not the same support Oracle's JDK gets), GC has a ton of heavy hitters…

drooling for crunchyroll support

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-check-for-gas-l...

In our company we understand that testing up-front can be off-putting, but we rather pass up a great candidate than hiring a poor one (we do subscribe to Polsky view on candidates …

You're assuming that the code is executing in the way you read it, which is false. With the advent of branch prediction and Instruction reordering in CPUS (to gain performance), a …

Not sure this is true. There is the concept of final fields, but that doesn't make objects immutable, and thus even when declaring object finals (or arrays) you can pretty easily s…

We did this in collaboration with UofC, using our Algo trading platform ( http://www.optionscity.com/event/uchicago-midwest-trading-co... ) and it was really fun. Hm, I wonder if t…