Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 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.
HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.
“Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining.”
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Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining. For a pretty bog standard language, Java has some more exotic corners: ▶ this video
in “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?” · View on HN
Java Puzzlers spring to mind. There's a book [0], and some fun talks available on youtube [1][2][3]. [0]: [link] [1]: ▶ this video [2]: [link] [3]: [link]
in “Python wats” · View on HN
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] * ▶ this video (a talk by the author)
in “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?” · View on HN