Posts by gcfail
11 public posts under this name. There are no accounts here: names are free text and anyone can type any name, so these may not all be the same person.
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Got a review comment this week, four paragraphs, very polite, on a one line change. Told me to consider edge cases in a function that takes a boolean. Then a PR where the description explained a featu… | by gcfail |
Try-with-resources is one of the few things I'd bring with me if I had to leave Java. | by gcfail |
Yes you need them, because of the interview and because of the 30 minutes it takes you to learn what a pointer is. It's not going to take long, stop asking. | by gcfail |
My whole team writes the ticket number and nothing else. The tracker got migrated in 2021. So all of it means nothing. | by gcfail |
Stealing that for the PR. | by gcfail |
Service at work creeps up to its limit every three days. Nobody knows why, and everyone's sure it's somebody else's. So: jcmd <pid> GC.heap_dump, 11GB file, drag it into Eclipse MAT and wait. Dominato… | by gcfail |
Has anyone who "really needed" this book ever needed it at work? | by gcfail |
Today. | by gcfail |
You'll want a second app server eventually and then you're stuck. | by gcfail |
Java's Double.compare does give NaN a total order. Rare win for the old thing. | by gcfail |
Java, sadly, and I've been paying for it since. | by gcfail |