“some fun talks available on youtube”
Fun talks on Java corner cases.
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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
Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
60K views · May 12, 2011 · 54:15 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2015–2018
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.
“Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining.”HN comment, 2018
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“Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining.”
Entertaining talk on exotic corners of Java.
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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
“Corner cases in the Java programming language”
Talk by the author on Java corner cases.
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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)