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

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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.

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@denormalfloat2018-10 · in “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?”

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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@isbadawi2015-10 · in “Python wats”

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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@nayuki2017-07 · in “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?”

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)