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Showing posts with label random. Show all posts

31 July 2023

Random thought, tweet as a generic verb/noun

Now the company formerly known as Twitter no longer wishes to use "tweet", it is entirely possible for the remainder of the world's population to use "tweet" as a generic verb/noun to indicate an individual posting on some short-message social media service...

Example:
I tweeted on Telegram...
My Facebook tweet ...

Thus completing the dilution and destruction of the Twitter brand.

17 June 2021

Random thought: Fixing Java

If Oracle simply changes Java so that null.toString() returns the string "null" instead of throwing a NullPointerException, they will probably solve the majority of mysterious bugs in Java programs.

18 May 2021

Random thought: False Hope of Extensibility

Common Java anti-pattern is to name some classes as "DefaultFooClass" when there's actually no way to use any other implementation.

I think it should be called the "False Hope of Extensibility" anti-pattern.