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Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
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 HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google for Developers
- Topic
- java language puzzlers
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2018
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From the original HN conversations
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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]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK]
isbadawi on Hacker News · 2015-10
In Python watsJava Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining. For a pretty bog standard language, Java has some more exotic corners: [VIDEO]
denormalfloat on Hacker News · 2018-10
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