“One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“Collection or an appropriate subtype is generally the best return type for a public, sequence- returning method.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“Writing concurrent programs in Java keeps getting easier, but writing concurrent programs that are correct and fast is as difficult as it ever was.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“If you export a nontrivial interface, you should strongly consider providing a skeletal implementation to go with it. To the extent possible, you should provide the skeletal implementation via default methods on the interface so that all implementors of the interface can make use of it.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“Implementing a constant interface causes this implementation detail to leak into the class’s exported API. It is of no consequence to the users of a class that the class implements a constant interface. In fact, it may even confuse them. Worse, it represents a commitment: if in a future release the class is modified so that it no longer needs to use the constants, it still must implement the interface to ensure binary compatibility. If a nonfinal class implements a constant interface, all of its subclasses will have their namespaces polluted by the constants in the interface.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“You can put any element into a collection with a raw type, easily corrupting the collection’s type invariant (as demonstrated by the unsafeAdd method on page 119); you can’t put any ele- ment (other than null) into a Collection<?>.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“arrays are covariant. This scary-sounding word means simply that if Sub is a subtype of Super, then the array type Sub[] is a subtype of the array type Super[]. Generics, by contrast, are invariant: for any two distinct types Type1 and Type2, List is neither a subtype nor a supertype of List. You might think this means that generics are deficient, but arguably it is arrays that are deficient.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“A forEach operation that does anything more than present the result of the computation performed by a stream is a “bad smell in code,” as is a lambda that mutates state.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“streams do not make iteration obsolete”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“premature optimization is the root of all evil. —Donald E. Knuth [”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“In other words, it is about 50 times slower to create and destroy objects with finalizers.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“In fact, two-thirds of the uses of the close method in the Java libraries were wrong in 2007.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“There is no way to extend an instantiable class and add a value component while preserving the equals contract, unless you’re willing to forgo the benefits of object-oriented abstraction.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“Given all the problems associated with Cloneable, new interfaces should not extend it, and new extendable classes should not implement it.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“It is too early to say whether modules will achieve widespread use outside of the JDK itself. In the meantime, it seems best to avoid them unless you have a compelling need.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.”
― quote from Effective Java Programming Language Guide
“It was Hitler’s style, his oratorical talents and his remarkable ability to transmit emotions and feelings in his speeches, that took him to the leadership of the ragtag party of misfits and adventurers that he joined in Munich in 1919 and that called itself the German Workers’ Party. The ideas he and the party spouted were all tattered; they were nothing but jargon inherited from the paranoid Austro-German border politics of the pre-1914 era, which saw “Germanness” threatened with inundation by “subject nationalities.” Even the combination “national socialist,” which Hitler added to the party’s name when he became leader in 1920, was borrowed from the same era and same sources. It was not the substance—there was no substance to the frantic neurotic tirades—that allowed the party to survive and later to grow. It was the style and the mood. It was above all the theater, the vulgar “art,” the grand guignol productions of the beer halls and the street.”
― Modris Eksteins, quote from Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
“We’re killing lots of dinosaurs though. The trains are helping.”
“The TRAINS are—“
“Only one derailed so far,” Urruah said cheerfully.”
― Diane Duane, quote from The Book of Night with Moon
“But at the corner I stopped to take my last look at the crew of the Narcissus. They were swaying irresolute and noisy on the broad flagstones before the Mint. They were bound for the Black Horse, where men, in fur caps with brutal faces and in shirt sleeves, dispense out of varnished barrels the illusions of strength, mirth, happiness; the illusion of splendor and poetry of life, to the paid-off crews of southern-going ships.”
― Joseph Conrad, quote from The Nigger of the Narcissus
“The Necromancer's Tower squatted over the river like an incontinent titan.”
― Yahtzee Croshaw, quote from Mogworld
“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at the close of a day's work, he might find my lengthy account the least bit tedious. For there was mastery as well as pleasure in our nightly ritual. Through my knowledge, I commanded my father's undivided attention, the sign of his love. It would instill in me an early awareness of the power of narrative, which would introduce a lifetime of storytelling, fueled by the naive confidence that others would find me as entertaining as my father did.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from Wait Till Next Year
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