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Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

Name: Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Description: 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.

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HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.

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.

Pull quote: “Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining.” (HN, 2018)

Also tagged: java language puzzlers, java, corner cases, puzzlers, josh bloch, programming pitfalls

What Hacker News said

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Recommends isbadawi October 2015 under Python wats

Fun talks on Java corner cases.

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]

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Recommends denormalfloat October 2018 under Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

Entertaining talk on exotic corners of Java.

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]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it nayuki July 2017 under Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?

Talk by the author on Java corner cases.

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)

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